International women’s day in Mexico
I usually don’t make posts about this, but rather reblog them. This year is different because this year I can only confirm to myself that things for us Mexican women are getting worse and worse.
Feminism to me this year has a different meaning because today I understand Latin American feminist is different. In most western countries the fight is more about gender inequality in terms of wage gap, sexism, and misogyny. In Latin America we are getting killed. In Mexico we are getting killed and r*ped and authorities are doing nothing. Authorities are corrupt. Politicians don’t care. Politicians commit sexual violence crimes. The president hasn’t done anything to solve the problem. And we are tired.
Last year, women’s day looked like this:
Transcript:
Image 1: Feminicide State written in the doors of the presidents office.
Image 3: Don’t kill us
Image 4: #not one less. (Chant in reference to the concerning increase in feminicides over the last five years)
Image 5: AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s president) indifferent.
Image 6: don’t kill us.
Mexican women feel collective pain and fright for the current situation. We gather up as sisters in this movement. It is raw, it is extremist, it is anarchic, but it’s necessary. We are done. Here are some links about the situation:
To get started What is femicide?
While femicides represented about 10 percent of all murders in 2019, the rate has increased exponentially, growing 145 percent since 2015.
Ingrid’s case
Femicide Is Rising in Mexico as Government Denies Risks of Gender-Based Violence
Femicides in Mexico: Fighting for the right to life
My heart is broken.
I’m angry.
I’m tired.
I’m scared.
Because I love my country but hate it’s government.
Because I love my sisters.
Because we don’t deserve it.
How does it look women’s day in 2021
In an attempt to protect Palacio Nacional from getting sprayed and painted during the protests, the building was surrounded. What happens when your government supports more the protection towards a building than its women? Thousands of names of the women killed from 2019-2021 are written all over the place along with flowers and pink crosses.
And this is our song: sin miedo (song without fear)
https://youtu.be/VLLyzqkH6cs
Lyrics (translation is not mine, credits to the owner)
Let the state, the skies, the streets tremble
Let the judges and the judiciary tremble
Today, women’s calm is taken away
They sowed his fear
Wings grew on us
Every minute of every week
They steal friends and killed sisters from us
They destroy their bodies
They disappear them
Please don’t forget their names
Mr. president
For all those that are marching in Reforma
For all those that are fighting in Sonora
For the commanders fighting for Chiapas
For all the mothers looking in Tijuana
We sing without fear, we ask for justice
We scream for every missing
Let them hear it loud, we want us alive
Let the femicide fall hard
I set everything on fire, I break everything if one day a stranger closes your eyes
Nothing shuts me up anymore
Nothing else stops me
If one is touched by them, we all respond
I’m Claudia
I’m Ester
I’m Teresa
I’m Ingrid
I’m Fabiola
And I’m Valeria
I’m the girl that you succumbed by force
I’m the mother that now cries for their deaths
And I’m the one who will make you pay your debts
Justice!
For all those that are marching in Reforma
For all those that are fighting in Sonora
For the commanders fighting for Chiapas
For all the mothers looking in Tijuana
We sing without fear, we ask for justice
We scream for every missing
Let them hear it loud, we want us alive
Let the femicide fall hard
(Extracts from the national anthem)
And let the earth tremble
In it’s center
To the loud roar
Of love (changed to “the loud roar of war”)
And let the earth tremble in it’s center to the loud roar of love






















