Last year, women, girls and allies all across Mexico took to the streets to engage in massive demonstrations to raise awareness about the violence against women and girls in the country. At our most recent BPFNA board meeting, Vice President Veró Garibay-Bravo shared an update on what's currently happening with the women's movement in 2021.
Throughout history, women in every part of the world have made great strides, sometimes in spite of a significant lack of equality. With the help of women such as Lucretia Mott, Rosa Parks, and Marsha P. Johnson, the gap in equality in areas such as gender, race, and sexual orientation has become more and more narrow. Currently, we are very fortunate that these women and so many more have made these strides, but we still have a long way to go - and part of it comes from the way we approach feminism even among each other as women.
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(Drawing created by Cristian Hernandez). "Sister, listen! This is your fight", women who saw us pass raised their fists, chanted the slogans, followed the rhythm of the drums, cried. Weeks before, the horrendous murder of the young woman Ingrid Escamilla at the hands of her partner and the disappearance and murder of Fátima Aldrighett (five years old), along with the mishandling of the stories by the media and the authorities in both cases were triggers for the outrage of the nation. “Enough is enough”. In a country where murders are no longer news, where 3,000 women die every year just for being women, these two cases aroused outrage at impunity, disgust at dehumanization, satiety over violence and injustice of the corrupt system in which we have lived for so many years.
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