Cynical mockery of the taxpayer: In[ter]disciplinadæs arrives

From November 18 to 21, 2025, Montevideo will host In[ter]disciplinadæ: the first Latin American Congress of Feminist Studies of the South, organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Feminist Studies (CEIFem) at Universidad de la República (Udelar).

Funded from the very core of a public university, the event is already open for registration: the fees to attend the feminist congress are 150 dollars for international participants and 5,000 Uruguayan pesos (5,000 Uruguayan pesos) for nationals.

Decolonial academic celebration

CEIFem is a feminist activism platform directly funded by Udelar's public budget since 2021.

It was selected in the 2020 call of the Support Program for Interdisciplinary Centers of Udelar's Interdisciplinary Space, receiving direct funding from the university budget for the 2021–2025 period.

Among those who are part of the Center is the senator and ultra-feminist activist Constanza Moreira, who is a member of the Congress Organizing Committee.

How are your taxes being spent?

Below is an overview of the thematic axes of the In[ter]disciplinadæ congress:

• "Power, Patriarchy, and Politics": only the binary scheme of oppressors vs. oppressed women exists. A reductionist, obsessive, and dangerously totalitarian vision.
• "Bodies, Sexualities, and Reproduction": "cisheteropatriarchy," "biopolitical normalization regimes," and promotion of the queer agenda, which denies the biological differences between men and women.
• "Gender Violence": everything is violence. Everything is oppression. Everything is the fault of the heterosexual white man.
• "Information and Communication": total control of language, thought, and public opinion: they intend to eliminate from the media everything that doesn't fit the feminist and decolonial agenda.
• "Economy, Work, and Care": they want to dismantle the productive economic system and replace it with a feminist and eco-sustainable model, based on "unpaid work" and the "care economy."
• "Activisms, Feminist Memory, and Feminisms of the South": they pay tribute to themselves, legitimizing their struggles, discourses, and leftist positions.
• "Anti-Gender Offensives": they criminalize any criticism of the gender perspective. All resistance is presented as part of a "dangerous neoconservative movement."
• "Art": far from exalting beauty, creativity, or talent, what is valued is anything with "feminist, subversive, and counter-hegemonic content."
• "Environment, Territories, and Urbanism": direct attack on modern science, accusing it of being "patriarchal and colonial." They call for it to be replaced by "inclusive knowledge," "feminist epistemologies," and other delusions that relativize the scientific method.

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More exploits of the Center for Interdisciplinary Feminist Studies at Udelar

On October 26, 2021, Udelar's Central Governing Council approved CEIFem's proposal to create a Gender Equality Observatory at the University, to "make visible the gender inequalities that occur in the academic sphere, from a feminist perspective and based on information caused by Udelar itself."

They have proposed elective courses such as "From Suffrage to the Women's Strike: Feminist Challenges and Perspectives from Uruguay", with Constanza Moreira as the faculty member responsible for the interdisciplinary curricular unit.

On July 23, the Gender Equality Observatory of the University created the Gender Perspective Indicator System of Udelar (SIPeG) to "provide information that allows for a deeper analysis of gender and intersectional gaps... provide evidence to guide the formulation of institutional policies and the evaluation of those already implemented."

Udelar wants 52% more... for all this?

The University's budget has already multiplied by 385 times since 1990, going from 69,584 million pesos (69,584 million pesos) to 26,786,277 million in 2024. This gigantic growth has been financed, for the most part, by General Revenues (90.6%), that is, by the taxes of all citizens.

As if the millionaire budget it receives were not enough, on August 1, the new rector of Udelar, Héctor Cancela, declared himself in favor of the wealth tax and announced that the university will request a 52% increase in the Five-Year Budget Law of Yamandú Orsi's government.

Under the pretext of academic growth—since, according to Cancela, this increase is necessary to "keep pace with enrollment growth and territorial development"—the real objective is hidden: to sustain a doctrinal structure that multiplies like a cancer within the university.

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This grotesque increase—which would raise the annual budget to more than 40,000 million pesos (40,000 million pesos)—is essential for academic progressivism to stay alive. As always, funded by all Uruguayans.

With your money

The real destination of the budget increase is to fund more centers like the Center for Interdisciplinary Feminist Studies; for the implementation of programs such as "anti-racist" ethno-education or the creation of new research institutes, such as the recent Institute for Social Justice and Inequalities.

Udelar, funded by everyone, is not a place to learn and debate freely, but rather an institutional network at the service of an increasingly radicalized ideological agenda. The most serious thing is that all this happens without any kind of serious public debate about the direction of the public university.

CEIFem and the In[ter]disciplinadæ Congress once again show that Udelar is a terribly ideologized institution, which channels public resources toward progressive activism, disguised as distinguished academics, to promote a worldview that directly threatens human nature and its true progress.