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