When no walls are enough and barricades are set up to stop activists and protesters, the sky is what is left. With that in mind, a Mexican women’s collective that goes by the name Fuimos Todas, flew a zeppelin in the most iconic places of Mexico City to remind everyone that Mexico is a feminicidal nation.
The phrases “10 femicides a day” and “None forgotten” appeared on a zeppelin that flew over some of Mexico City’s monuments and buildings such as La Fuente de la Diana, La Victoria Alada (a.k.a Angel de la Independencia), the Senate of the Republic, the Monument to the Revolution and the Palace of Fine Arts.
The action, which is part of March 8 International Women’s Day, was organized by Fuimos Todas, a women’s group that seeks to make visible violence against women in Mexico.
“We protest with pain in the sky against the daily murders of women – for the simple fact of being women – and we do it from the heights to be closer to our sisters,” says the group in a statement.
With this protest, they demand that the authorities provide justice for the families of murdered and violated women in the country and point out that the struggle will continue despite the “fences and grenadiers” with which the federal and Mexico City administrations have sought to control women’s demonstrations in recent years.
“They have told us that we can’t paint graffiti, that we can’t break or burn things: so we also go up. We go up to heaven because in heaven there are no limits and because there we are all of us.”
We are all women
In the message, the group stresses the importance of embracing and fighting for the diversity of women: “We are the women of native peoples, trans women, women domestic workers, women deprived of liberty, women with disabilities, neurodivergent women, women sex workers, Afro-descendant women, mothers, women caregivers, brown women, white women, we are women of all ages. We are all of us.
Pictures by Fuimos Todas
Story originally published in Cultura Colectiva
