The ?V-Day? March in Mexico: Appropriation and Misuse of Local Women's Activism
2005; Volume: 17; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2979/nws.2005.17.2.217
ISSN1527-1889
Autores Tópico(s)Gender, Security, and Conflict
ResumoIn this paper, I present a report on local women's activism during the V-Day march in Mexico. I explain how the V-Day march in Mexico, a protest organized presumably against the murder of more than 300 young women between 1993 and 2003, was not only a belated response to gender violence, it was also an appropriation and misuse of local women's activism. I discuss that by the time national and international recognition and support for local activism came—ten years later in the form of the V-Day march—it was too late; political positions had already been taken. At this point in time we local women activists and advocates all knew who was recognized—at local, national, and international levels—as speaking subjects. In other words, we knew who could speak, for whom, and for what purpose; consequently we also knew who was symbolically erased.
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