Since 2015, every June 3, thousands of us are in the streets to be the voice of those who no longer have it, victims of gender violence. On that date, which we named Ni Una Menos, a massive call was held in different parts of the country, motivated by the femicide of Chiara Páez, a 14-year-old teenager who was pregnant and was murdered by her partner. Ni Una Menos came to seal a commitment to the feminist, transversal, intergenerational and powerful movement, made of networks of affection and sisterhood.
Since its inception, with the first wave, feminism has made great progress in terms of rights, embodied in laws and international conventions. These translate into obligations for the States, encouraged to intervene in all fields where there are gender inequalities, including not only cis women but also other gender identities, made visible in recent decades. All this as a result of historical struggles and discussions that, generation after generation, the movement manages to put on the agenda. Similarly, impressive victories have recently been achieved in the discursive field. There is no series, journalistic program or communication product in which discussions about gender are not thematized. We have become present throughout the range. However, as a movement we have not been as successful in eradicating violence. Not only have we not been able to stop it, but we have not reduced their numbers either.
Any movement that proposes structural changes also implies resistance and reactionary positions. In times of discourses that trivialize gender violence, despite being a deeply entrenched problem in our societies, it is necessary to clarify that feminism is not a struggle of women and other gender identities against men: it is a movement against an order of domination, symbolic and concrete, of men over women, other gender identities and children, but whose effects not only affect the latter, but everyone. This is not to say that it impacts all people in the same way. In this sense, feminist studies that have explored for decades the roots of sexist violence, the conquests to date and the battles that still remain, propose profound changes to start history in the direction of other goals of well-being, with ways of relating to each other that are very different from those we have today, breaking with the hierarchical and binary logics that reproduce violence and that continue to be naturalized by many social sectors.
Today, from Shalom Bait we say NO to the impositions that we did not choose, that limit our autonomy and our rights. Because deprived of them - to work, to have our own time, to choose a partner or not to choose one, to decide whether to be mothers or not - our freedom is restricted, which is part of what we call life.
We say Ni Una Menos because we are tied to soft chains to avoid violence;
Ni Una Menos for remaining obedient and isolated to avoid punishment;
Ni Una Menos to be able to put into action our immense collective power.
And as difficult as it may seem, we know that the process is underway and that we are part of this revolution. We can allow ourselves to dream, look to the horizon and see, as Rosa Luxemburg said, “a world where we are socially equal, humanly different and totally free”
Since 2015, every June 3, thousands of us are in the streets to be the voice of those who no longer have it, victims of gender violence. On that date, which we named Ni Una Menos, a massive call was held in different parts of the country, motivated by the femicide of Chiara Páez, a 14-year-old teenager who was pregnant and was murdered by her partner. Ni Una Menos came to seal a commitment to the feminist, transversal, intergenerational and powerful movement, made of networks of affection and sisterhood.
Since its inception, with the first wave, feminism has made great progress in terms of rights, embodied in laws and international conventions. These translate into obligations for the States, encouraged to intervene in all fields where there are gender inequalities, including not only cis women but also other gender identities, made visible in recent decades. All this as a result of historical struggles and discussions that, generation after generation, the movement manages to put on the agenda. Similarly, impressive victories have recently been achieved in the discursive field. There is no series, journalistic program or communication product in which discussions about gender are not thematized. We have become present throughout the range. However, as a movement we have not been as successful in eradicating violence. Not only have we not been able to stop it, but we have not reduced their numbers either.
Any movement that proposes structural changes also implies resistance and reactionary positions. In times of discourses that trivialize gender violence, despite being a deeply entrenched problem in our societies, it is necessary to clarify that feminism is not a struggle of women and other gender identities against men: it is a movement against an order of domination, symbolic and concrete, of men over women, other gender identities and children, but whose effects not only affect the latter, but everyone. This is not to say that it impacts all people in the same way. In this sense, feminist studies that have explored for decades the roots of sexist violence, the conquests to date and the battles that still remain, propose profound changes to start history in the direction of other goals of well-being, with ways of relating to each other that are very different from those we have today, breaking with the hierarchical and binary logics that reproduce violence and that continue to be naturalized by many social sectors.
Today, from Shalom Bait we say NO to the impositions that we did not choose, that limit our autonomy and our rights. Because deprived of them - to work, to have our own time, to choose a partner or not to choose one, to decide whether to be mothers or not - our freedom is restricted, which is part of what we call life.
We say Ni Una Menos because we are tied to soft chains to avoid violence;
Ni Una Menos for remaining obedient and isolated to avoid punishment;
Ni Una Menos to be able to put into action our immense collective power.
And as difficult as it may seem, we know that the process is underway and that we are part of this revolution. We can allow ourselves to dream, look to the horizon and see, as Rosa Luxemburg said, “a world where we are socially equal, humanly different and totally free”