Hi there! Today in Argentina and many other places of the world there will be demonstrations against patriarchal violences. The movement #niunamenos (the original chant) erupted in our country in 2015 and from there it spread throughout Latin America and the entire world. Nine years later, we cannot deny that violence continues to reproduce in a context of economic, social, and environmental crisis, with the guarantee of the State and governments. But it hasn't been all in vain: we have a wealth of feminist advocacy and activism that sustains us in everyday life, which cannot be erased in one fell swoop by any right-wing government.
The history of our feminist struggle in Argentina did not begin on that June 3rd, but draws on diverse trajectories and histories of denunciation and resistance. In Argentina, an icon condensed what it meant to be the mother of a disappeared child: the diapers that became the white scarves/handkerchiefs of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, whose organized anger and pain were a beacon for subsequent generations.
Today, they are reinvented and re-signified in the scarves that accompany us:
💜 Purple against all forms of patriarchal violence.
💚 Green for legal abortion.
❤️ Red against SA of children.
🧡 Orange for the separation of Church and State.
They are our memory and our experience intertwined, linked like our hands, chants, and shouts that remember our dead and disappeared, so close to the heart and so present in our struggle.
On this day, we reafirm the desire for a world without patriarchal oppression, we embrace families and friends in their constant search for justice for their loved ones who were abducted or k*lled. We demand justice for the recent lesbicide of Pamela, Andrea, Sofia and Roxana in Buenos Aires.
🔥 Nine years, one voice against patriarchal cruelty 🔥
