Because the revolution will be feminist and anti-racist, or it will not be.
Note to Karina Bidaseca, co-coordinator of CLACSO Working Group Epistemologies of the South, which was published in the Der Taggespiegel newspaper in Berlin, Germany.
“When social protests erupted in Chile in 2019, likely to lead to a new constitution, a multitude of feminist cries echoed through the streets. Cries like ‘The revolution will be feminist or it will not be,’ ‘Never again will it not be,’ and ‘Never again without us.’ Karina Bidaseca, an Argentine feminist and academic, is convinced that ‘it was the Chilean students who woke Chile up in 2019.’ The social explosion was preceded by student protests the previous year, in which students occupied their universities in a fight against sexism. Despite all the social protests, the biggest problem for feminist movements in the regions remains violence against women. In the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, for example, there have been 2.300 femicides in the last 30 years. Nowhere else are more women killed. The women’s response? To protest. ‘Ciudad Juárez is where the well-known ‘Ni Una’ (Not One) movement was born.’ "Less," says Karina Bidaseca, "and from there it spread throughout Latin America. Violence against women in the region doesn't make them give up. They defend themselves."
