00:00Do you know that in the beautiful land of Tunja, in 1938, there was a program of feminists?
00:04Yes, it directed a subtaxist.
00:06So today, in the women who have done history,
00:08Ofelia Uribe de Acosta.
00:09Look, the thing is that Ofelia came from a house of five brothers, where she was the only woman.
00:13And thanks to that she was surrounded by men, Ofelia could participate in activities that
00:16the women didn't do in a traditional way.
00:18So, she told us, throughout her life, that the society didn't have relegated.
00:22It's that the women of the time the treated them as if they were women.
00:24No, I'm not saying it, I'm not saying it, it's the story.
00:26It's that, miren, before 1932, the women in Colombia didn't even have the right to administrate their own rights.
00:31The men controlled the life in all aspects possible.
00:34Do you remember how Britney lived the life when her father was a tutor?
00:37Well, something like that was normal in Colombia until 1932.
00:40And that changed only until the president of turn, which in that time was Enrique Olaya Herrera,
00:44Promulgó a law that recognized the right to administrate their own rights.
00:47And it's not even been a hundred years.
00:49And I'm not going to repeat this ever, but it's incredible what women can do in terms of our rights.
00:54The case is that Ofelia, like many liberal women of the time,
00:58She had started to build as a political subject.
01:00And she believed that yes, that women were already ready to vote.
01:02That we already had a political capacity, but we were already doing it from the private sector.
01:07It's not like that women of the time lived in another reality.
01:10They knew what happened in society, they knew what happened in their homes,
01:13And in fact, they were, in many occasions, they ended up in the vote of their wives.
01:17So, from 1938 to 1942, existed the radio program, The Hora Feminista, and it was directed by Ofelia.
01:24The radio program was transmitted in Tunja one hour a week.
01:26And it served as a little bit more profound to the women of the time.
01:30And it served as a feminist propaganda for the women of the vote.
01:32It was an impulse for women boyacenses, especially, it was invited to be a sensibility
01:36for social issues and to be responsible for the exercise of their rights.
01:40What interesting is that at that time, Boyaca was so conservative as other departments of Colombia.
01:44But in what respect to feminists, Tunja had the cara for being a active point of concentration.
01:48And then, there was something that perfectly possible could continue to happen in 2023,
01:52and it was that there were many women shocked by that word, feminism.
01:55Tanto men and women, carried out by that conservatismism,
01:58considered that women were not ready to exercise their rights.
02:01So, in the agenda of then, they thought that it was very important to prepare women for what they came
02:06to do.
02:06How would they vote if they didn't even know how to read?
02:08And yes, the first sufragists also came in a patriarchy and other types of violence and segregations,
02:13because they were forgetting the women racialized and the women pobres.
02:16When they were looking for the vote of women,
02:17they almost only thought about the women of high class, privileged,
02:20that they could have an education to be able to vote.
02:22That happened in the entire world, the first sufragists in all parts, and in Colombia no was different.
02:26For example, they were talking about that women could access their careers in universities,
02:30but in case of being married, they could not be able to do.
02:33Because, in the words of them, the biberon and the office were incompatible.
02:37But Ofelia, who came from a class-media, of parents educators and with liberal pensions,
02:41looking for a feminist feminist, accompanied by the education,
02:44that's why their radio program was so important.
02:46Ofelia really batalló to get access to women to access access to education.
02:49They were able to get various men, powerful, political, even with the minister of education of that moment.
02:54Well, the type of thing said,
02:54that they had to educate women, but they had to create special universities for them,
02:58with programs like...
02:59...cursitos.
03:00Cursitos de decoración, de enfermería, de trabajo social...
03:05...and all the activities that capped in stereotypes and in the care of the care.
03:08Miren, Ofelia dejó un libro, se llama Una voz insurgente, de 1963,
03:12en el que quiso documentar lo que vivió la lucha feminista en sus orígenes aquí en Colombia.
03:15Díganos si les gustaría saber un poquito más de historia feminista, las leemos en los comentarios.
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