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Ésta Que Soy: International Women’s Day 2013

Ésta que soy - International Women's Day 2013 - Chiapas, Mexico

On March 8, 2013, in honor of International Women’s Day, the Centro Hemisférico invited the community of San Cristóbal de las Casas to the steps of la Iglesia de Guadalupe for a poetic urban intervention centered on Chiapanecan poet Mirtha Luz Pérez Robledo’s work Ésta que soy. For more on the Centro Hemisférico’s work using [...]

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Can Art Stop Murder? Ni Una Más in Chiapas, Mexico Is Trying

Can Art Stop Murder? Ni Una Más in Chiapas, Mexico Is Trying

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¡Ni Una Más! Valentine’s Day The San Cristóbal Way

¡Ni una más! Contra el Feminicidio - San Cristóbal de las Casas

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¡Ni Una Más! Because No One Wants To Be a Martyr When They Grow Up

Justice for Itzel Méndez Pérez! End femicide! Basta!

Last month, 1,200 people marched through San Cristóbal de las Casas to demand justice for Itzel Yaneth Méndez Pérez, a seventeen year old woman whose body was discovered on [...]

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Jesusa Rodriguez’s Genetically Modified Secret

Performance artists gather at la catedral in San Cristóbal de las Casas to protest Monsanto

“Come hear the secret.” She beckons us. “The secret of Mother Earth.” It is a clear afternoon at la catedral in San Cristóbal de las Casas when, suddenly, dozens of masked figures in robes of red, green, and blue pour into the [...]

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Women, Art, and Resistance in the Americas

It was moving to wear her name on my body. Putting a name to each crime. Remembering the importance of who each woman was—that they weren't just statistics.
Norma Cacho

I think it’s fitting that the conclusion to the Centro Hemisférico’s “Diálogos Hemisféricos” series celebrated women using art in the movement. The “Acción política y creativa de las mujeres en Chiapas” (Creative political [...]

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