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Activists Paint Names of Femicide Victims Outside of Mexico’s Presidential Palace

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

Ahead of a massive march for International Women’s Day, the palace was covered with names and messages like “Trans women are part of my struggle.”

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Feminists Take Over Federal Building in Mexico City and Use Painting as a Weapon

by Zoe Mendelson September 10, 2020November 5, 2020

In protest of femicide, the artists painted over portraits of all-male historical figures hanging in the National Human Rights Commission.

Posted inArt

For Turkish Women Artists and Advocates, #challengeaccepted Is About More Than Just Selfies

by Alicia Eler August 7, 2020November 5, 2020

As femicide rates continue to rise in the country, there’s more to consider than just the surface-level gesture of #womensupportingwomen.

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A “Healing Blanket” Against Gender Violence, Created by 600 Women Around the World

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino August 5, 2020November 5, 2020

The moving results will soon be on view in a virtual gallery by California’s Social and Public Art Resource Center.

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In Mexico City, Art Collective Paints Names of Femicide Victims on Streets

by Zoe Mendelson March 11, 2020March 11, 2020

The names, painted on International Women’s Day, were scrubbed away around 24 hours later.

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Artist Encrusts Tijuana Police Cars With Glitter

by Rosa Boshier March 10, 2020March 9, 2020

Rubén Ortiz Torres gathered decommissioned patrol vehicles damaged in altercations with cartels and then bathed them in midnight blue and millennial pink.

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Mexican Artist and Women’s Rights Activist Murdered in Downtown Juárez

Avatar photo by Ilana Novick January 24, 2020January 24, 2020

Artists are rallying in the wake of Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre’s murder, with an artist collective asking that people all over the world take to the streets to protest their member’s death tomorrow, January 25.

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In Mexico City, Widespread Protests About Women’s Rights Target a Monument and Museum

by Monica Castillo November 26, 2019November 26, 2019

Dozens of breastfeeding mothers gathered at Mexico City’s Museum of Modern Art in protest of discriminatory regulations, while the Angel of Independence monument was vandalized with feminist graffiti and crocheted hearts.

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In the Desert, a Vulture Spirit Follows a Trail of Femicide

by Ashley P. Taylor March 20, 2015

Alone amid cacti, barbed wire, and phone lines, she is looking for something. The figure raises her rake — which seems like half claw, half witch’s broom — above her head, then returns to it to the sand.

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