#México feminism

[orion-archives]

I don't want to see anyone here celebrating Claudia Sheinbaum's victory in the elections.

NO, not because I'm against women in power. I'm a woman and I know it's an important event to have the first female president in history.

BUT she was the worst option out of all the candidates. She is a puppet of the former president, AMLO, who's presidency was extremely corrupt, one of the most violent ones and practically glued to organized crime.

It was during their time when kids were denied cancer treatment, because there WAS NOT MEDICINE. When tons of people lost their jobs, when inflation became worse and worse. When multiple tragedies and accidents happened in the CDMX metro because of their neglect. When the INE (our electoral institute) was attacked alongside news reporters who documented and called out their errors. When budget for science, art and education were at their lowest, to the point the goverment wanted free art for the covers of the free educational books that the SEP (Mexico's public education secretariat) gave and in the end were full of mistakes and errors inside, making them useless for education.

I can go on and on and on with why they are terrible, but it would take me days.

Claudia Sheinbaum is not a feminist ally, before you start preaching her as an icon. She, AMLO and Morena were responsable for violence against women to skyrocket in six years.

I repeat:

During AMLO's presidency, violence (including homicide) against women was at its HIGHEST.

Women are DYING at horrible numbers EVERYDAY and they will continue to ignore that.

Who is AMLO? The same guy who gladly shook the hand of Chapo's mother infront of cameras. The same person that freed a narco leader. The same who was responsible for massacres due to organized crime. The same who constantly denied the evidence that Mexico was getting worse. The same one who preached "Hugs, no bullets" as he let crime and violence to roam free.

Sheinbaum is not someone you should cherish. Please, you don't know how much damage she, AMLO and all the group of Morena have done to my country.

Do not celebrate.

This wasn't a victory for Mexico, it was a victory for Morena.

Today, Mexico lost.

[mariasabanahabanabana]

Yo todo el año / yo tras la despenalización del aborto en México a nivel nacional

OH POR DIOS, OH POR DIOS, OH POR DIOS, OH POR DIOS, OH POR DIOS!!!

Finalmente, trás AÑOOOS, no DÉCADAS, de luchar por la legalización del aborto en México a nivel nacional, POR FIN, HOY, MIÉRCOLES 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DEL 2023, SE HA LEGALIZADO EL ABORTO!!!

Si, sé que hay demás problemas y asuntos por resolver, pero, en un país en donde los casos de violación, trata de blancas y o tráfico de personas (en específico niñas y mujeres) tienen cifras extremadamente altas y dónde la religión predomina pese a ser un país laico, este suceso es un gran orgullo y avance por compartir.

Recuerdo que en varias veces comen te: "probablemente muera antes de que el aborto sea legal en México" y bueno, ahora me encuentro aquí escribiendo y viviendo este gran momento.

Si, en ocasiones duele ser de México al ver tanta corrupción y violencia inundar nuestras calles, más, lo digo de nuevo, este es un gran avance!!!

Avance que espero demás países a nivel global puedan obtener!!!

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OH MEU DEUS, OH MEU DEUS, OH MEU DEUS, OH MEU DEUS, OH MY DEUS, OH MEU DEUS....!!!!

Finalmente, depois de ANOS, não DÉCADAS, de luta pela legalização do aborto no México em nível nacional, FINALMENTE, HOJE, QUARTA-FEIRA, 6 DE SETEMBRO DE 2023, O ABORTO FOI LEGALIZADO!!!!!

Sim, sei que há outros problemas e questões a serem resolvidos, mas, em um país onde os casos de estupro e tráfico de pessoas (especificamente meninas e mulheres) têm números extremamente altos e onde a religião predomina, apesar de ser um país Laico, esse evento É UM GRANDE ORGULHO E PROGRESSO a ser compartilhado.

Lembro-me de ter dito várias vezes: "Provavelmente morrerei antes que o aborto seja legalizado no México" e, bem, AGORA ME ENCONTRO AQUI ESCREVENDO E VIVENDO ESSE GRANDE MOMENTO HISTÓRICO.

Sim, às vezes dói ser mexicana e ver tanta corrupção e violência inundando nossas ruas, mas repito, ESTE É UM GRANDE AVANÇO!!!!

avanço que espero que outros países do mundo possam alcançar!!!!

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OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!!!!

Finally, after YEARS, not DECADES, of fighting for the legalization of abortion in Mexico on a national level, FINALLY, TODAY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023, ABORTION HAS BEEN LEGALIZED!!!!!

Yeah, I know there're other problems and issues to be solved, but, in a country where cases of rape and human trafficking (specifically girls and women) have extremely high numbers and where religion predominates despite being a secular country, this event IS A GREAT PRIDE AND PROGRESS to share.

I remember several times saying: "I'll probably die before abortion is legal in Mexico" and well, NOW I FIND MYSELF HERE WRITING AND LIVING THIS GREAT HISTORICAL EVENT.

Yeah, sometimes it hurts to be from Mexico to see so much corruption and violence flooding our streets, but I say it again, THIS IS A GREAT ADVANCE!!!!

A breakthrough that I hope other countries around the world can achieve!!!!

[torposopla]

[storyteller-aprendiz]

One example of why white feminism doesn't do shit is México having two women in the lead for presidency, and still being one of the deadliest countries for women and femme people (13 woman die a day or something like that).

It also shows why identity politics or "representative" politics are shit too.

[cuntess-carmilla]

TERFs from the imperial core have this fantasy that global south feminists and global south women in general MUST universally agree with them at least in principle of "women = born with a dyadic vulva" as if their views on gender weren't inherently colonial and white supremacist, and as if Latin América specifically isn't at the forefront worldwide regarding the trans liberation movement.

Yeah, yeah, Spain passed a nice little bill that makes it easier for trans people there to change their name and gender marker legally (genuinely happy for the Spaniard trans community), but they're like, anywhere between 4-8 years late to the party compared to Argentina, Chile and México.

Even within like, colonized global north nations as is the case between Scotland and England, it was Scotland that tried to pass a similar bill recently (and was stopped by its imperialist relation to England), not the other way around.

I'd also really appreciate if TERFs stopped calling their feminism "marxist". Maybe, MAYBE some of you idiots have marxist views when it comes to economics (and you're all still closer to fascists in every political regard than not, ask your queen Tumblr user celestia!), but your feminist analysis doesn't come from marxist class-centered analysis -- which requires us to agree that class is constructed through power and culture for the sake of oppressive resource and labor distribution, rather than being inherent qualities or the natural order -- it comes from pretty fucking Catholic and reactionary views on gender and sex that can't be divorced from gender-essentialism and bio-essentialism, and ignore any sane or hopeful analysis on concrete oppression.

In other words, get fucked.

[coochiequeens]

Finally I'm able share some good news

Wild festivals, exquisite fruit-bowls and unusually realistic renderings of motherhood and female friendship – not to mention a glimpse of Lady Hamilton as an enthusiastic follower of Bacchus – will go on show in Madrid on Tuesday as one of the country’s most famous galleries seeks to spike the patriarchal canon of art history with a new, and avowedly feminist, exhibition.

The show at the Thyssen-Bornemisza – called simply Maestras (Women Masters) – uses almost 100 paintings, lithographs and sculptures to show how female artists from the late 16th to the early 20th centuries won recognition in their own lifetimes, only to find their works forgotten, erased or consigned to dusty storerooms.

Organised into eight chronological sections that reflect artistic and social changes, Maestras also explores how female artists, gallerists and patrons worked together to create and celebrate art while living and working in the grip and gaze of sexist, and often misogynistic, societies.

Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, The Shoe Shop, 1911. Photograph: Elyse Allen/© Art Resource, New York Scala, Florence

Seventeenth-century works by Artemisia Gentileschi, Fede Galizia and Elisabetta Sirani give way to still lifes of fruit and flowers before the exhibition moves to portraits – including Élisabeth Louise Vigeé Le Brun’s Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante – and then to Orientalism, depictions of working women, images of maternity, sisterhood and, finally, to images of female emancipation.

Among the show’s early exhibits is one of Gentileschi’s anguished studies of Susanna and the Elders, while the later pieces include Mary Cassatt’s bleary-eyed Breakfast in Bed and Maruja Mallo’s playful Fair pictures.

“This exhibition speaks positively of that other half of art history,” said the exhibition’s curator, the art historian and critic Rocío de la Villa.

“For a long time, the feminist history of art has been beset by all the handicaps and obstacles that had been put in the path of female creators. For example, they couldn’t access the same artistic training that their male colleagues could. They generally lived in an extremely patriarchal system that denied them their rights and in which their signatures had no legal value.”

There were, however, “certain moments and certain places” in which conditions were more favourable to female artists, and the show aims to offer “a series of windows through which we can see a mutual understanding and a camaraderie between artists, gallery owners and patrons”.

It also reminds visitors that some talented women caught the eye of European royal courts, and that some had husbands who helped them in the studio – or even looked after their children – because they knew that their wives’ gifts far exceeded their own.

Mary Cassatt, Breakfast in Bed, 1897. Photograph: The Huntington Library, Art Museum

Guillermo Solana, the artistic director of the Thyssen-Bornemisza, said Maestras was another example of the museum’s continuing commitment to feminism, education and addressing the prejudices of the past.

“I’d promised myself that I wouldn’t do any mansplaining today but I can’t help it when it comes to explaining what I’ve learned from the process of doing this exhibition, because I’ve learned a lot,” he told journalists on Monday morning.

“The first thing I learned from this exhibition – and which I think the public will also learn – was so many new names; so many fantastic artists I’d had no idea about and had never heard of. Of course, we knew about Artemisia Gentileschi and Frida Kahlo or Paula Modersohn-Becker, but how many important artists have got away – or been taken from us?”

Frida Kahlo, Portrait of Lucha María, A Girl from Tehuacán, 1942. Photograph: akg-images/© Rafael Doniz @ 2023 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, México, D.F./VEGAP

De la Villa agreed. “The public is going to ask, ‘How can it be that we didn’t know about these female artists?’” she said.

“How is it that their works were in storerooms until recently? Maestras is a feminist exhibition that seeks to emphatically correct the prejudices that have come about as a result of the patriarchy – prejudices that have meant that works by female artists have remained in museum storerooms during the 20th century.”

She said the male-dominated artistic system had always sought to defend itself by denigrating female artists. Equally damaging, she added, was how historians had played down the achievements of women until their voices were silenced and their creations overlooked and then hidden from view.

“When women are hidden, or robbed of their past, they are robbed of their identity,” said De la Villa. “The power of culture is very important. It just can’t be separated from the social conditions we enjoy, or which we suffer.”

 Maestras is at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum from 31 October to 4 February 2024

[theartistisreading]

We're welcoming our new Dodd faculty members by setting up book displays with readings curated BY our new faculty :D

First up is a new addition to our awesome Sculpture faculty — Kimberly Lyle!

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

Zeros + Ones by Sadie Plant

Participation by Claire Bishop

Translation by Sophie J. Williamson 

Information by Sarah Cook

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines... by James Bridle

Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

To quote from her artist website:

Kimberly's research explores the implications of technology on our relationships with each other and the more than human world. Many of her projects challenge the social values historically embedded within these tools by misusing or subverting their conventional systems of language and logic. Moving fluidly between tangible and digital processes, her work aims to re-imagine what technology can be and who it is for. She has participated in exhibitions and symposiums at ISEA (Gwangju, Korea); Flux Factory (NYC); International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art (Berlin, Germany); Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference (Tempe, AZ); the Symposium for Literature, Science, and the Arts (Irvine, CA); Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (Toluca, Mexico); Tucson Museum of Art; and the Phoenix Art Museum. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies at Sculpture Space, Mildred’s Lane, Elsewhere Museum, Signal Culture, and the Vermont Studio Center. She received an MFA in Intermedia from Arizona State University, a BA in Psychology from Stetson University, and completed post-baccalaureate studies in Sculpture and Expanded Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Technology at the University of Georgia.

[1libroxsemana]

La reina de espadas

Este es el primer libro que leo de Jazmina Barrera gracias a un club de lectura.

Jazmina te platica la vida y obra de Elena Garro, invitándote a descubrir a esa mística mujer a través de su legado en la literatura y el feminismo en México

This is the first book that I read of Jazmina Barrera thanks to a book club.

Jazmina tells you about the life and work of Elena Garro, inviting you to discover a mystical woman through her legacy in literature and feminism in Mexico

[f0xd13-blog]

Feminism kkkkkkkkk

[blossoming-witness]

Me tiene super desanimada la respuesta que Brujas del Mar ha recibido acá en México por posicionarse como feministas radicales. Lo peor es que el conflicto al que se están enfrentando ahorita está lleno de desinformación, y eso me cansa bastante.

Se posicionaron como abolicionistas de la prostitución, y una escritora trans (mtf) las criticó. Y de la nada inventó una conexión con la postura abolicionista con la postura anti-queer. ¿De dónde salió eso??? Es una conjetura completamente inventada para llevar el debate a donde quieren. Brujas nunca hablaron sobre las mujeres trans, hablaron sobre prostitución y trata.

Pero como quien las criticó es trans, se les fueron encima olas de machi-progres llamándolas TERF en sus redes sociales. Ahí sí Brujas se posicionaron como críticas a ese insulto, señalando que era equivalente a féminazi.

Ahora Brujas decidieron formalizar su postura crítica de lo queer, pero siempre han reiterado su apoyo a las personas trans. Este pleito las forzó a posicionarse, y estoy contenta de que lo hayan hecho, pero me frustra mucho que haya surgido de una postura super ilógica y falaz como que abolicionista = terf.

[ateliermonmon]

Alejandro López Álvarez La flaca justiciera, 2022 Linocut Unknown dimensions

[mariasabanahabanabana]

¿Feliz día de la mujer?

(perspectiva de una mujer mexicana)

Pt 1

Antes que nada... Si conocen a alguien de lat/México/mujer no le digan "feliz día de la mujer", se que lo hacen con buenas intenciones, pero el día no es para celebrarse, sino para conmemorar lo y recordar a todas aquellas que ya no están con nosotras.

Hoy es el día de la mujer en México, y hace unos días les comenté que me gustaría compartirles un pedacito de lo que es ser mujer en Latinoamérica, en específico México, que se encuentra en el top de países con más feminicidios en Latinoamérica (no es el único, pero como yo soy/viví ahí hablaré de México)

Para empezar, ¿Por qué digo que ser mujer en México es un pesar?

Bien, veamos...

Desigualdad salarial

Feminicidios

Tienes que estar atenta 24/7 de que ningún hombre te siga

No puedes (o sea si, pero es muy riesgoso) salir con falda, sola y de noche

Tener que cargar un taser por si acaso

Ser juzgada/ir a prisión por cargar con un taser/arma blanca para defenderte

Que si haces una denuncia te culpen por lo que te ha pasado

O en el peor de los casos, que archiven tu caso y que tú victimario ande sin ser perseguido por la ley/como si nada

Acoso

Secuestros

Violaciones

No poder decidir sobre tu cuerpo (el aborto no está legalizado todo México, solo en algunos estados)

Piropos

Y más...

Con el simple hecho de que AL DIA MUEREN APROXIMADAMENTE 10 MUJERES (sino es que más) A MANOS DE HOMBRES...

Y no, con esto no intento hacer de menos la situación en otros países/continentes, pues soy consciente de que existen países con peores situaciones que las de México, pero hoy me encuentro hablando desde lo que es ser mujer en México.

Puede que no muchxs (gracias a dios [lo uso como expresión]) logren comprender del todo el miedo que una mujer vive día a día, por lo que he decidido adjuntar les algunas canciones, las cuales explican a perfección la situación actual feminicida en Latinoamérica

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¿Happy Women's Day?

(perspective of a Mexican woman)

pt 1

First... If you know someone from Lat/Mexico/woman, don't say "Happy Women's Day”, I know you guys (men) do it with good intentions, but the day isn't to be celebrated but to commemorate it and remind all those who are no longer with us.

Today is Women's Day in Mexico (and in some other countries around the world) and a few days ago I told you that I would like to share a bit of what it means to be a woman in Latin America, specifically, Mexico, which is among the top countries with the most femicides in Latin America (not it is the only one, but since I'm/lived there I'll talk about Mexico)

To get started, ¿why do I say that being a woman in Mexico is a regret?

Okay, let's see…

Wage inequality

Femicides

You have to be open-eyed 24/7 that no man/men follows you

You can't (I mean you can, but it's very risky) go out in a skirt, alone and at night

Have to carry a taser just in case

Being judged/gonna prison for carrying a taser/edge tool to defend yourself

That if you file a complaint, they blame (the government/police) you for what happened to you

Or in the worst case, that they file your case and that your perpetrator walks without being prosecuted by the law / as if nothing

Bullying

kidnappings

assaults

Not being able to decide about your body (abortion isn't legalized throughout Mexico, only in some states)

Pickup lines

And more…

With the simple fact that APPROXIMATELY 10 WOMEN DIE EVERY DAY (if not more) AT THE HANDS OF MEN…

And no, with this I'm not trying to undermine the situation in other countries/continents, cause I'm cognizant that there are countries with worse situations than Mexico, but today I find myself speaking from what it's to be a woman in Mexico.

It may be that not many (thank God [I use it as an expression]) fully understand the fear that a woman lives day by day, so I have decided to attach some songs, which perfectly explain the current femicide situation in Latin America

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¿Feliz Dia da Mulher?

(perspectiva de uma mulher mexicana)

ponto 1

Antes de mais nada... Se você conhece alguém de lat/México/mulher, não diga "Feliz Dia da Mulher", eu sei que eles fazem isso com boas intenções, mas o dia não é para ser comemorado, mas para comemorar. e lembrar a todos aqueles que não estão mais conosco.

Hoje é o Dia da Mulher no México, e há alguns dias eu disse a vocês que gostaria de compartilhar um pouco do que significa ser mulher na América Latina, especificamente no México, que está entre os países com mais feminicídios do América Latina (não é a única, mas já que estou/vivi lá vou falar do México)

Para começar, por que digo que ser mulher no México é um arrependimento?

Ok, Vamos ver...

Desigualdade salarial

Femicídios

Você tem que estar vigilante 24/7, para que nenhum homem o siga

Você não pode (quer dizer, sim, mas é muito arriscado) sair de saia, sozinho e à noite

Tem que levar um taser apenas no caso

Ser julgado/ir para a prisão por portar um taser/faca para se defender

Que se você fizer uma reclamação eles te culpam pelo que aconteceu com você

Ou, na pior das hipóteses, que arquivem seu caso e que seu agressor ande sem ser processado pela lei / como se nada

Assédio moral

sequestros

violações

Não poder decidir sobre seu corpo (o aborto não é legalizado em todo o México, apenas em alguns estados)

Cantadas

E mais...

Com o simples fato de que APROXIMADAMENTE 10 MULHERES MORREM TODOS OS DIAS (se não mais) NAS MÃOS DOS HOMENS...

E não, com isso não estou tentando minar a situação em outros países/continentes, porque estou ciente de que existem países com situações piores que o México, mas hoje me vejo falando do que é ser mulher no México.

Pode ser que poucos (graças a Deus [eu uso como expressão]) entendam completamente o medo que uma mulher vive no dia a dia, então resolvi anexar algumas músicas, que explicam perfeitamente a atual situação do feminicídio na América Latina

Links

https://youtu.be/HLWnWArVnrE

https://youtu.be/_b_-jV_n_ro

https://youtu.be/oeU7rb-dBow

https://youtu.be/tAObYU2upKc

https://youtu.be/bE-gSdqya7A

https://youtu.be/Sw30g7kMWDI

https://youtu.be/VLLyzqkH6cs

https://youtu.be/1R5SlJGlLX8

https://youtu.be/mzfTlTv-2Po

[cbrosa-archived]

when i see people complaining about the male actors they thirst about not having all the screentime their little hearts wanted while talking literal shit on andrea and victor - even saying they were poorly casted - and claiming their storylines weren't necessary on this season but they don't even live in the north of mexico or the south of the US...

i'm like hunty, you don't even belong to this deal and subject to begin with.

[alifeinneverland]

So everyone knows what's happening in Mexico