Seeing Red [] Bonnie Lee Black

Published March 11, 2022

by Bonnie Lee Black

Among the events here in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, that marked this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8^th which I attended were a peaceful march by young Mexican women, an art installation at Fabrica la Aurora, and a dramatic outdoor display of close to one hundred donated red dresses hanging on long clothes lines representing “Las Desaparecidas” (the disappeared).

At the Parque Juarez kiosk a group of young female activists gathered at four o’clock in the afternoon on March 8^th to make and display the posters they would carry on their peaceful march to the city’s central Jardin later that afternoon. Organized by the Sororas y Rebeldes SMA collective, these women, dressed mostly in black, were part of a larger effort in Mexico called 8M (the 8^th of March) to protest violence against women on this International Women’s Day.

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