The Mexican Girl Trap

You can check out their calendar to see what they are offering when you visit the city. Kurimanzutto was co-founded by Mónica Manzutto and is one of the oldest and most popular galleries in Mexico City. Originally, Manzutto, her husband, and 13 other artists never had a permanent space. Instead, they had pop-up galleries that would bounce around the city based on the environmental needs of the exhibit. Invasorix is a feminist/queer art collective that puts on shows, events, videos, performances and even tarot readings around the city. They do major callouts to all of our prized feminist influences and their own local feminists. Check out their events and help them smash the machismo culture one event at a time.

Arturo Reyes says that getting men to accept responsibility for violent actions, rather than seeing their violence as a product of a two-way relationship or the fault of their partner, is the crux of working with men on men’s violence. It started with a Facebook page where he shared resources and encouraged discussion about generating equal, non-violent relationships. As more people began to engage with the page, he started to coordinate face-to-face “circles of reflection,” held weekly . With COVID-19 social distancing measures, the circles of reflection have continued online. While this has not been realistic for the vast majority of Mexico’s workforce, of which around 60% work in the informal economy, it does mean that thousands of families suddenly found themselves spending a lot more time than usual together under the same roof. At his office in central Mexico City, Reyes has been spending his weekends taking calls on his cellphone for the helpline that Gendes established when the measures were announced.

Some wanted adventure, others to watch over a loved one in the ranks. Most shared the traits of the young Missouri volunteer who had a “frail constitution” and avoided all men except his brother. Women like Zozaya and Bowman ended up on battlefields by chance. Some determined women managed to join the ranks and a few even experienced combat. Her determination during the siege earned her the nickname “the Heroine of Fort Brown” and the honorary title of Colonel Bowman.

Barrales said she had voted for Amlo but had grown increasingly disillusioned as he slashed funding for programs created to support women, including daycare and shelters. And Amlo’s response to the recent killings has infuriated and alienated women’s rights activists, many of whom voted for him in 2018 believing a progressive leader would do more for their cause. Last year 1,006 of 3,825 murders were officially classified as femicides – women or girls killed because of their gender.

This shared cultural belief stems from the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church which has had great influence over Latin American cultures. Contraception is still a big issue for mexican girls with a population of 107 million. The population trend is even expected to grow in size in a little over thirty years. With a population that keeps increasing it was the first nation in 1973 to establish a family planning program. It is called MEXFAM ; the program has been recorded to have decreased Mexican households from 7.2 children to 2.4 in 1999. Surging birthrates in Mexico in the 1960s and 70s became a political issue, particularly as agriculture was less productive and Mexico was no longer self-sufficient in food.

While it is true that the vast majority of the Mexican women who were involved with the military were non-combatants, it is also factual that thousands of these women lost their lives while performing their very necessary tasks. Because many of them did become involved sexually with the soldiers they served, either for love or for money, it has become too easy to dismiss all of them as simply prostitutes or else simply ignore their existence. In the aforementioned book, ”Soldaderas In the Mexican Military,” Elizabeth Salas goes into great detail, listing the names of many Mexican women who particularly distinguished themselves asSoldaderas.One of them is Catalina de Erauzu ( ). Arriving in Mexico in 1630, she became known asLa Monja Alferez. Salas has authenticated them by publishing their pictures in her book. The book also contains many other pictures of anonymous women, armed, that substantiate the role of women as soldiers.

Joaquin promised to support their initiatives to ensure women’s safety in Cancun and Quintana Roo as a whole. Bianca “Alexis” Alejandrina Lorenzana Alvaradoleft her home in Cancun to buy an e-cigarette and never returned. Police put out a missing person report on the 8th, but her family and local feminist collectives quickly organized and began a search party. Government recognition is imperative for funding and implementing laws.