Public Story
La rabia de las niñas
Summary
In recent years, girls and adolescents have become increasingly important in women's movements in Latin America and in the struggles for a dignified life free of violence. In Mexico, on more than one occasion, they have pushed the government and authorities to the wall.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted street protests for a few months in 2020, it did not stop them completely, and in the past year and up to now, acts of rage, actions in memory of femicide victims and demands against sexual violence in all its forms throughout the country.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted street protests for a few months in 2020, it did not stop them completely, and in the past year and up to now, acts of rage, actions in memory of femicide victims and demands against sexual violence in all its forms throughout the country.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted street protests for a few months in 2020, it did not stop them completely, and in the past year and until now, acts of rage, actions in memory of femicide victims (939 cases in the whole year 2020, according to official figures updated as of January 31, 2021) and demands against sexual violence in all its forms have taken place in Mexico City, Edomex, Chihuahua, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Puebla and Quintana Roo, to name a few entities.Today, more than ever, she proudly wears the pink cross, symbolic of feminicide, to march in demonstrations against violence against women. Thus, we could also see how little girls take their own mothers to the demonstrations, while more and more teenagers and young girls join the "Bloque Negro" (radical feminist separatist activists). A new generation that from a young age has learned to live with macho violence and now feels a mission: to take to the streets with their "sisters" to express their anger and demand justice.
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