More than 30 years ago, the Brigada Callejera was formed in Mexico City. Their work focuses primarily on contributing to sex workers’ autonomous organization and abolishing the structural problems that lead to the exploitation of sexual labor.
One of the greatest barriers to community-based self-defense has been a very powerful shift towards pacifism and non-violence as a primary means of political expression in Europe and the USA.
Fed up with heightened violence, Mexican women joined in the mobilization against feminicide convoked from Argentina after the violent rape and murder of young Lucía Perez.
Documentary film about amazing Indigenous Female Hip Hop Artist from Oaxaca, packed with music videos and an amazing world view from a rarely heard perspective.
By Lydia Cacho December 20, 2010 [Spanish original] Translated by Scott Campbell I received a message on Thursday: “It’s December 16, they murdered Marisela Escobedo. What do we do now, Lydia?” The shock was immense; I knew Marisela, an admirable…
TO THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD TO ALL THE WOMEN OF THE GREAT TRIQUI NATION TO ALL THE COMPAÑERAS OF SOCIAL AND CIVIL ORGANIZATIONS TO THE BRAVE WOMEN OF OAXACA TO THE BROAD WOMEN’S MOVEMENT We are the…
