I´m supposed to be posting something about the 100 days of productivity challenge but that is not even important. Today is september 15th a national celebration in Mexico because of the Independence (you know, like United Sates 4th July and we do all the things you guys think we do in may 5th). I can hear people screaming “Viva Mexico” outside in the streets. “Viva” means “hooray”… it also means alive…
Mara Fernanda Castilla Miranda. She was 19 years old. Yes, was. She was murdered. Today Puebla´s goverment confirmed her death. She got missing last friday, September 8th at midnight. She went dancing that night and she took a cab from “Cabify” (it works like Uber) so she could go home. But she never arrived.
May 3th, 2017. A woman was founded death inside the campus of the most important university in Mexico: UNAM. Her name was Lesvy Osorio Berlín, she was 22 years old and her boyfriend killed her. The PGJ (Procuraduría General de Justicia, a goverment organization that investigates crimes) twitted things about her: She drank alcohol, she leaved school, she liked parties. Like if that explained why she was killed. Like if it was her fault.
#SiMeMatan (If they Kill Me) was a reaction from women in Mexico to those tweets. It wasn´t her fault. It´s never the victims fault. That day Mara twitted: “#SiMeMatan es porque me gustaba salir de noche” (If they kill me it´s because I liked to go out at night).
Every day, seven women are killed in Mexico
Every hour, three or four women are raped
Mexico is the 3rd place in feminicides around the world.
Being a woman in Mexico is dangerous.
#NiUnaMás (Not even one more)
#VivasNosQueremos (We want us alive)
They call us feminazis. They laugh about us. They make memes about us. They blame girls for being raped, killed, missing. We failed Mara because a man took her life. We failed the other six women that died today. But will keep fighting, screaming, they won´t shut us down. They won´t die because they live in our fight. They´ll get the justice they deserve.
What can you do about this? Stay informed. Read about this girls. Not only about their murders but about who they were when they lived. If we scream, scream with us.
Mara Fernanda Castilla Miranda, yo también grito tu nombre, como grito el de mis compañeras violadas, como gritaré por la justicia que se merecen. Perdónanos, Mara. No nos callarán.
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