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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

Read the full article on Bitch Media. Photo credit: Lydia Reich.

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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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Should I Pray For My Abuser? Reconciling Feminism and Forgiveness

Paolo Freire writes, “In order for [the struggle for humanization] to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.”
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From the Vault: Domestic Violence Before and After

I once heard that, to write well, one must have distance from their subject. My recent article and video, I Want You To Hit Me And Other Lessons I’ve Learned From Woman-Blaming Misogynists, are exercises in distance. My feminism–sorry, feminawesome–was shaped by my experiences with domestic violence in my family and relationships. Today I write [...]

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It’s Here! The Very First Chalchihuitán Telenovela

Miss me? I disappeared on you there for a spell. But I had a pretty darn good reason. I spent the spring and early summer working the night shift at a San Cris posada and sleeplessly dashing out to Chalchi High during the day. In just two (very busy) months, we prepared a play for [...]

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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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