Afternoon of Feminist Resistance

Published March 18, 2023

by Irene Fuentes

On Wednesday March 8, the women of San Miguel were not afraid to go out into the streets. Dressed in skirts or pants, covered, uncovered, with makeup or without, girls, adolescents, women, we were not afraid to go out by ourselves, because we were not by ourselves. We were with other women. We were women taking care of women. We were without fear of being exposed to our aggressors because we were not, we are not, the weaker sex anymore. We were without fear of exercising our legitimate right to protest because we know that the personal is political. We know that all of us are the only civil force that makes the authorities tremble in every corner of this country.

The afternoon started at 4:30pm in Juarez Park with a guided meditation to connect with us, to relax before the march, and to give it insight into the person and the collective. For those who were together for the first time to get calmed and feel accompanied. We made up each other, painted and prepared for the march.

Women, girls, and adolescents began to arrive with great enthusiasm. In the atmosphere we felt the joy of being accompanied, the collective objective of manifesting for our rights. There were women of all ages, social conditions, and backgrounds, a great diversity all encountering the same intention. Women who fight find each other on the street.

The first call was given and then the second. The expectation grew. When the third call was announced we all shouted excitedly in unison. General instructions were given. It was to be a peaceful march in which mothers with their children would go at the front, then women of all ages, women marching for the first time, and women volunteers to provide first aid.

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