The meetings also do not issue general resolutions: the conclusions arise from each workshop, where experiences and territorial perspectives enter into dialogue. Workshops: the political heart of the Encounter. The Organizing Committee confirmed the schedule of workshops that will take place on Saturday, November 22nd, and Sunday, November 23rd, in various educational spaces in the capital of Corrientes. More than 70 women and dissidents from Corrientes make up the organization, finance, communication, culture, and logistics commissions, maintaining the collective nature of the event. Autonomy is one of the bases of the Encounter: no conditional financial contributions or external interventions are accepted. But as often happens at each encounter, in the open space of the central square, workshops usually take place that are not on the official schedule. Those who participate in the Encounter can choose from 16 thematic axes that address everything from the history of the movement to current labor issues, violence, health, identities, territories, religions, and geopolitical context. The workshops—spaces for horizontal, democratic, and pluralistic debate—are developed with moderators and rapporteurs who ensure participation and systematize the collective conclusions that will later be shared at the event's closing. Among the confirmed axes are: Activism and organization Lands and territories, original nations Sex-gender identities Care, upbringing, diverse families Human rights and access to justice Gender-based violence in all spheres Work, unemployment, and current challenges Human trafficking and the prostitution system Religiosities and institutions Geopolitical and economic situation More than an agenda, these axes compose a political map of the present: a collective diagnosis of the social urgencies faced by women and dissidents in a context of adjustment, political persecution, criminalization of protest, and the deterioration of rights. A living territory where realities are thought and transformed In addition to the workshops, the Encounter features cultural festivals, fairs, artistic interventions, and the traditional march, one of the most massive and powerful events: a sea of color, flags, drums, and slogans that demand justice, equality, and freedom in a country where gender-based violence remains an urgent debt of the State. The power of the Encounter lies in its ability to bring together diverse experiences: peasant women, workers, students, migrants, indigenous, Afro, trans, travesti, teachers, retirees, unionists, artists, scientists, protective mothers. All of them build a space there where word circulates freely, where silences are broken, and networks are strengthened. The plurinational character of the Encounter is the result of years of struggle to make visible identities, territories, and historical struggles made invisible by the nation-state. A territory of resistance against the reactionary advance, and at the same time, a laboratory of possible futures. In Corrientes, as in each edition, thousands will once again say together: “To meet is political.” For three days—22, 23, and 24 November—the provincial capital will be the stage for debates, workshops, cultural activities, and a massive mobilization that will once again take to the streets the urgent demands against patriarchal violence, structural inequalities, and the conservative advance. By ANRed. This encounter, which last year took place in Jujuy and at whose closing Corrientes was chosen by applause as the 2025 venue, is characterized by its massiveness, autonomy, and horizontality: a space where more than 70,000 people self-convene to debate, propose, and build from below other ways of inhabiting the world. An autogestioned, plural, and federal event As in each edition, the Plurinational Encounter is organized by a local commission that functions in monthly open plenaries. There, all decisions related to planning, logistics, workshops, and cultural activities are made. March at the 38th Plurinational Encounter of Women and Dissidents, Corrientes 2024. Hours before the start of a new historical meeting of the feminist and dissident movement, Corrientes prepares to receive thousands of women, lesbians, travestis, trans, bisexuals, intersex, and non-binary people at the 38th Plurinational Encounter. The presence of indigenous, migrant, and Afro-descendant communities expands the political horizon of feminism, incorporating perspectives on extractivism, racism, colonialism, and territorial dispossession. In times of anti-rights discourses and a national government that attacks feminism, the consolidation of a massive, autogestioned, and federal Encounter is, in itself, a political victory: a reminder that collective organization can resist and create alternatives in the face of adjustment and state violence. Corrientes is preparing: history continues The 38th Plurinational Encounter of Women and Dissidents once again opens an essential space where the collective word transforms into political action.
