Yes I'm a Feminist, No I don't Hate Men

Intersectional Feminist - Mexican 🇲🇽 - proud lesbian 🏳️‍🌈

[miiamartii]

CNDH (human rights national commission) in Mexico City

Insistir, persistir, resistir y nunca desistir.

La toma de las instalaciones de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH) de la Ciudad de México ha representado un logro y avance a la organización del frente nacional feminista #Niunamenos quienes llegaron para apoyar a las madres de víctimas de desaparición forzada que se mantenían en huelga de hambre en uno de los salones. Aunque sea un avance en tomar los espacios para ser escuchadas aún no lo es para sus casos en espera justicia y esclarecimiento.

En la toma hay mujeres de todas edades, niños y algunos hombres familiares de las mujeres de tercera edad. Al llegar no podían creer la alacena con la que cuenta la CNDH: cortes finos, botes de helado, latas de chongos zamoranos, azúcar importada, verdura y fruta de gama alta. Alimentos que hace años los familiares (que también son víctimas) no habían probado por la limitación en gastos de transporte y seguimiento en búsqueda de justicia por su parte. Gastando sus ahorros y el más importante, desgaste emocional.

Yesenia, madre de Marichuy, asesinada hace 5 años presuntamente por su maestro de la IPN, dice que ella no entiende cómo sigue viva, la búsqueda de justicia la mantiene de pie.

Erika su hija pequeña es víctima de abuso sexual por un familiar. Desde hace tres años su agresor sigue libre y las autoridades han revictimizado a la niña de apenas 10 años. Ha dejado todo y por ahora no tiene casa, creo una línea de muñecas con la que a través de ellas muchas mujeres le han contado su historia. Ella quiere ser recordada por sus muñecas y con ellas sacar adelante a sus hijas.

Flor es artista callejera, apoya a la Colectiva feminista y cada noche deleita la pupila con sus actos de fuego y malabarismo.

Son mujeres que no quieren dinero, tampoco forman parte de ningún partido político. Les mataron, violaron y desaparecieron a sus hijas. Quieren justicia. La que se les ha sido negada por años.-

FOTO: ANDREA MURCIA / CUARTOSCURO

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COBERTURA COMPLETA

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEzPvYXFPx2/?igshid=1rmf02tf6o1xp

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Insist, persist, resist and never desist.

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Antigrita en la CNDH canción sin miedo

https://twitter.com/lvloon/status/1305720160393850880?s=21

[miiamartii]

Motherhood will be wanted or it will not be.

Able to choose not to die

It's not yes or no, it is legal or clandestine

A guy forgetting to be a father does not generate as much turmoil as a woman deciding not to

[annonima-esta-escribiendo]

[miiamartii]

For you, for me, for everyone

[iwantpesto]

#NoMeCuidanMeViolan

Es protesta, no provocación.

[miiamartii]

“Everyone is super Fuck the police until someone actually fucks the police and then everyone is like those are not ways of making change”

This refers to the way some people are reacting to the feminist riots in Mexico.

In Mexico, there are 10 women murdered daily (gendercide) and close to 50 are raped. The problem is enormous and in response the feminist riots get aggressive. There is vandalization and shouting through which we have actually achieved to be heard but which also get the response of “they do not represent me” or “thats not the way of achieving change”

[peeterparkr]

Women in Mexico disappear.

Today is a historic day in my country, we’re fed up with gender violence in Mexico. They’re killing us. Picture this, you can’t walk outside your own house because you fear the worst, you fear that your clothes are too revealing, you fear that you’re too alone, you fear that you’re walking the wrong streets. Day after day you wake up to the news of another feminicide. They’re killing us. You see it, you hear it, you fear it. What if I’m the next one? You’re always wondering. They’re killing us. 

10 women are killed every day, only because they’re women. And it doesn’t matter where we are, what we’re wearing, who we are. It’s not our fault, because they keep killing us. 

If we keep up at this rate? What’ll be of us? 

Yesterday we marched. 

(None of the pictures are mine) 

 “I march because I’m alive and I don’t know until when.” 

“Today, all our voices aren’t together because, from death, one can’t scream.” 

“We’re not hysteric, we’re historic.” 

“Mom, if you don’t find me, look up for me in the stars.” 

Yesterday we screamed. We flourished. 

“Mom, don’t worry, today I’m not alone in the streets.” 

Our monuments bled to represent us. 

We screamed. 

But not today, today march 9th 2020. We silenced ourselves. 

Today, we disappeared. No social networks, not a single woman in the streets, not a single woman working, not a single woman studying, not a single woman at any store.

What would Mexico be without us? If you don’t want us in the streets, fine we’ll disappear.

Without us, you’ll collapse. 

Mexico woke up with no women ticket-sellers in the subway stations, no women tellers at the bank. 

No women’s column on the newspapers. 

No women at their jobs. 

No women at school. 

No women on the streets.

Mexico woke up with no women. 

We can’t accept what we can’t change, but we will change what we can’t accept. 

We are angry, and we will rise. Because without us, you’re nothing. 

[miiamartii]

This was a while ago, the energy was so amazing in the protest I still got chills by the pictures

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Artist unknown

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In honor of International Womens Day, here is a thread of women of color, queer women of color and trans women of color who deserve to be celebrated today for their accomplishments:

Up first: Sylvia Rivera who is a Latina trans activist, helped create STAR with Marsha P Johnson. She was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance. She is a pioneer of trans rights!! ❤️

Bisexual Mexican artist Frida Kahlo spoke out about being disabled after a bus accident. Her self-portraits comment on the female form and utilize traditional Mexican themes and colors!

Kara Walker is a Black artist who creates these very powerful silhouettes highlighting race and scenerios of our past in slavery. She creates many other works as well, but those are my personal favorite. I’ve seen them in person!

Katherine Johnson who is represented in the movie “Hidden Figures”, calculated the precise trajectories that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969. She was a very talented mathematician. In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Malala Yousafzai is a prominent figure in our world. Every day she fights to ensure all girls receive 12 years of free, safe, quality education. She is also the youngest Nobel Prize recipient. Even after the gunman incident, her voice never stayed quiet.

Rosa Parks of course. She was a leader in the local NAACP and the civil rights movement, iconically refused to give up her seat. Her willingness to disobey the rule helped to spark the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation in America.

Marsha P. (“Pay it No Mind”) Johnson was another pioneer in the trans movement. She helped created STAR with Sylvia Rivera. She was a drag queen, sex worker, and while her gender identity remains questioned in discourse, a lot of trans people claim her as one of their own.

Cecilia Chung, an Asian trans woman living with HIV, has spent her life fighting to end discrimination, stigma and violence across marginalized communities first as the former chair of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

Of course Michelle Obama!! She has focused on social issues like education and healthy living. She was deeply committed to the well-being of our nation and to the future of its people, especially its children.

One more: Patsy Takemoto Mink devoted her life to advocating for gender equality and educational reform. She is the first woman of color and the first Asian-American woman elected to the House of Representatives. Title IX owes its existence largely to her efforts. So thank you to all of these amazing, intelligent, passionate, beautiful, inspiring women throughout history who are fucking badass. I just had to shed some appreciation to them for changing the world and resonating with me to continue follow in my great aunt’s activism for people of color.

Happy International Women’s Day to ALL my sisters and I’m with you in solidarity and power!

[miiamartii]

Me: I like women

Grandma: 😱 wow!

Granpa: what? (he's hard of hearing)

Grandma: she's saying she doesn't like men

Grandpa: Oh, great, me neither

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[miiamartii]

Legal abortion in Mexico

Only in 2 states is abortion legal in Mexico, Mexico City and Oaxaca, until the 12th week; in Guanajuato and Queretaro abortion is legal ONLY in case of rape.

Today, July 29 a meeting was held in Veracruz to decide whether to decriminalize abortion in this state... The motion did not pass.

It was not today, but it will be a law

Not EVERYONE gets the same sex education

Not EVERYONE has access to contraception

Not EVERYONE lives in dignified conditions

Not EVERY pregnancy is wanted

DO NOT TAKE OUR CHOICE

https://instagram.com/brujasdelmarver?igshid=18ai9bfeadoyv

This four ministers said no to women's rights in a meeting of less than 20 minutes

We will not forget. It was not today, but it will be.

[miiamartii]

Marea verde

Sex ed to choose

Legal abortion not to die

[miiamartii]

Neither whore for fucking,

Nor mother by duty

Nor prisoner for aborting

Nor dead for trying

[miiamartii]

Canción sin miedo -Vivir Quintana

Que tiemble el Estado, los cielos, las calles

Que tiemblen los jueces y los judiciales

Hoy a las mujeres nos quitan la calma

Nos sembraron miedo, nos crecieron alas

A cada minuto, de cada semana

Nos roban amigas, nos matan hermanas

Destrozan sus cuerpos, los desaparecen

No olvide sus nombres, por favor, señor presidente

Por todas las compas marchando en Reforma

Por todas las morras peleando en Sonora

Por las comandantas luchando por Chiapas

Por todas las madres buscando en Tijuana

Cantamos sin miedo, pedimos justicia

Gritamos por cada desaparecida

Que resuene fuerte: ¡Nos queremos vivas!

¡Que caiga con fuerza el feminicida!

Yo todo lo incendio, yo todo lo rompo

Si un día algún fulano te apaga los ojos

Ya nada me calla, ya todo me sobra

Si tocan a una, respondemos todas

Soy Claudia, soy Esther y soy Teresa

Soy Ingrid, soy Fabiola y soy Valeria

Soy la niña que subiste por la fuerza

Soy la madre que ahora llora por sus muertas

Y soy esta que te hará pagar las cuentas

¡Justicia! ¡Justicia! ¡Justicia!

Por todas las compas marchando en Reforma

Por todas las morras peleando en Sonora

Por las comandantas luchando por Chiapas

Por todas las madres buscando en Tijuana

Cantamos sin miedo, pedimos justicia

Gritamos por cada desaparecida

Que resuene fuerte: ¡Nos queremos vivas!

¡Que caiga con fuerza el feminicida!

¡Que caiga con fuerza el feminicida!

Y retiemblen sus centros la tierra

Al sororo rugir del amor

Y retiemblen sus centros la tierra

Al sororo rugir del amor

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Translation (the rhyme cannot be appreciated, in English, without changing the original lyrics, so there is no rhyme here) (I'm also not sure about the correct translation of some words like “sororo” so if you know it, please let me know)

Let the State tremble, the skies, the streets

Let the judges and the judicial tremble

Today women have calm taken away from us

They planted fear, we grew wings

In every minute of every week

We get friends taken, sisters killed

They destroy their bodies, they disappear them

Do not forget their names, please, Mr. President

For all of the pals marching in Reforma

For all of the gals struggling in Sonora

For the commanders fighting for Chiapas

For all of the mothers searching in Tijuana

We sing without fear, we ask for justice

We scream for each missing one

Let it resonate loudly: We want us alive!

Let the gendercide collapse hard!

I will set everything on fire, break everything

If one day somebody shuts down your eyes

Nothing can shut me up anymore, everything is now too much

If they touch one, we all respond

I'm Claudia, I'm Esther and I'm Teresa

I'm Ingrid, I'm Fabiola and I'm Valeria

I'm the girl you took by force

I'm the mother that's now crying her dead girls

And I'm the one that's gonna make you pay for it

Justice! Justice! Justice!

For all of the pals marching in Reforma

For all of the gals struggling in Sonora

For the commanders fighting for Chiapas

For all of the mothers searching in Tijuana

We sing without fear, we ask for justice

We scream for each missing one

Let it resonate loudly: We want us alive!

Let the gendercide collapse hard!

Let the gendercide collapse hard!

And let the earth's center resonate

To the soror roar of love

And let the earth’s center resonate

To the soror roar of love

(This translation is meant for none Spanish speakers to understand the lyrics of this powerful song, once you know what it means, please listen to the original song -youtube link above)

In Mexico, just as in many other Latin American countries the feminist fight battles not just for rights and equality, but is also a life or death struggle.

[miiamartii]

In quarantine I went back to talking to some of my old (guy) friends, I had recently come out as a lesbian and this happened to me.

Me: yeah, and I have a gf now

Friend: glad you are happy, but are you like gay gay or would you two like a threesome?

Me: nope, gay.

Friend: sure?

Me: why didn't you ask this when I had a bf?

Friend: ’cause I don't like dudes

Me:...

Friend:...

Me: I don't either