We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 February 2024
Introduction
#NoEstamosTodas
Paramos porque nos faltan las víctimas de femicidio, voces que se apagan violentamente al ritmo escalofriante de una por día sólo en la Argentina.
Nos faltan las lesbianas y travestis asesinadas.
Nos faltan las presas políticas, las perseguidas, las asesinadas en nuestro territorio latinoamericano por defender la tierra y sus recursos.
Nos faltan las mujeres encarceladas por delitos menores que criminalizan formas de supervivencia, mientras los crímenes de las corporaciones y el narcotráfico quedan impunes porque benefician al capital.
Nos faltan las muertas y las presas por abortos inseguros.
Nos faltan las desaparecidas por las redes de trata; las víctimas de la explotación sexual.
Frente a los hogares que se convierten en infiernos, nos organizamos para defendernos y cuidarnos entre nosotras.
Frente al crimen machista y su pedagogía de la crueldad, frente al intento de los medios de comunicación de victimizarnos y aterrorizarnos, hacemos del duelo individual consuelo colectivo, y de la rabia lucha compartida. Frente a la crueldad, más feminismo.
(Ni Una Menos 2017).On International Women's Day, 8 March 2017, the Argentinean feminist movement #NiUnaMenos presented their manifest #NosotrasParamos—#WeStrike. In it they state:
Este 8 de marzo la tierra tiembla. Las mujeres del mundo nos unimos y organizamos una medida de fuerza y un grito común: Paro Internacional de Mujeres. Nosotras Paramos. Hacemos huelga, nos organizamos y nos encontramos entre nosotras. Ponemos en práctica el mundo en el que queremos vivir.
The feminist mobilization against feminicide represented “un grito común” (a united outcry)—while also mourning the members it has lost to feminicide and violence against LGBTIQA+. It is this act of mourning that articulated the affective labor involved in the political manifestation against violence, voiced by the feminist strike of #NiUnaMenos. Women of all occupations went on strike for one hour in Argentina, initiating a social movement that went viral. The manifesto of #NiUnaMenos #NosotrasParamos—#WeStrike was written and signed by several political organizations, from grassroots groups to trade unions. It offers an analysis of violence against women as a specific articulation of contemporary neoliberal capitalism in Latin America and the women's strike as its political counterforce. This movement manifests a new potentiality of the political and resistance to structural cruelty (Gago 2020).
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
