Hey, I rarely write shit here, but I wanted to talk a little bit about women's situation in Mexico, because they're killing us. So, trigger warning, I'm gonna be mentioning death and rape, so please don't read if those topics trigger you.
I think last year I wrote about March 9, I'll explain in a little bit what that's about.
So, basically 9 women are found dead every single day in Mexico. And the government does nothing. It's scary as fuck, to be honest. To think that at any moment I can loose my mom, my sister, my cousins, aunts and friends, to think that at any given moment I can get kidnapped, raped and then killed, I'm scared.
And man, fuck the government, who does little to help us, fuck the police, who everytime women are manifestating they apprehend a few of them, act like they've been arrested, keep them uncommunicated, on very little clothes, humiliate them and, well, I don't know what else.
This year we have governor elections, and the president's party is choosing who they want as a candidate for Guerrero, his name's FΓ©lix Salgado Macedonio. He's a fucking rapist. He has three rape complaints (not completely sure that's how you say it in English) and what does the president do? He goes ahead and say that those are fake, that the women asking him to not let this fucking rapist be a candidate are making everything up and that they were sent by other parties to discredit him. I'm disgusted by this. God, I hate it.
And, because women aren't quiet anymore, everyday fighting for their rights not to be groped, raped and killed, and for the right to choose over their own bodies, the president is scared that women will paint the monuments, including the equivalent of the White House, with phrases about how we're being killed daily, the president did this
He shielded his palace (that's how it's called, fucking bs). Of course, women are amazing and they did this
Today during the protest they wrote victims of femicide and the names of women who have been killed just because they're women, while projecting on the palace's wall things like a rapist won't be a governor, and MΓ©xico femicidal.
I honestly think it was so fucking powerful. My sisters shouldn't be suffering for being born women, and we won't stop until we're heard.
And now, about the 9, well. Between the end of 2019 and the beginning of last year a feminist collective called "Las Brujas del Mar" said that if we stopped, so would the whole world. They created this thing call El Paro Nacional: Un DΓa Sin Nosotras, were no woman, teenage girl or little girl would go to work or school, to show Mexico what would happen if we all disappeared. They said Mexico would loose money, and they did: that day, Mexico lost 13 thousand, 571 millions of pesos. We're doing it again this year.
On March 9th, no woman will leave their homes. We won't cook, won't buy things, won't leave our houses, we won't spend time on social media, because we're "not going to be alive", that's the whole point of El Paro. Showing the men in Mexico that they need us alive. And it's painful that not everyone understands that.
But yeah, that's all, thanks for reading everything I had to say, I needed to get it out of my system.
Just, remember that us women have to stand up for each other, never bring us down, and fight for us and for all of our sisters, including our trans sisters, and to never let the patriarchy win, because we're stronger together. I love you all, take care of yourselves ππππ
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