Nike launched its Juntas Imparables campaign in Latin America in September 2018. The campaign centers on an ad, where a girl, dressed in green, jumps out of a car and starts running through a gridlock. As she runs through the cars other women start following her. During the short run, a man catcalls the girls […]
Read more "Selling Feminism Part 4: Juntas Imparables, creating a neoliberal feminist in Mexico."This is the third post in a series in which I will be digging into the evolution of Feminism as a product that can be purchased, and the impact on grassroots feminism in the global south, specifically Mexico. Read the Introduction here. Selling Feminism Part 1: Co-opting Feminist Knowledge in Development. Selling Feminism Part 2: […]
Read more "Selling Feminism Part 3: Transnational Influence in Mexican Market."This is the second post in a series in which I will be digging into the evolution of Feminism as a product that can be purchased, and the impact on grassroots feminism in the global south, specifically Mexico. Read the Introduction here. Selling Feminism Part 1: Co-opting Feminist Knowledge in Development. The relationship between feminist […]
Read more "Selling Feminism, Part 2: Capitalizing Feminist Knowledge."This is the first post in a series in which I will be digging into the evolution of Feminism as a product that can be purchased, and the impact on grassroots feminism in the global south, specifically Mexico. Read Introduction here. In the narratives of development women are often frames as both victims and heroes, […]
Read more "Selling Feminism Part 1: Co-opting feminist knowledge in development."This is the introduction post to a series in which I will be digging into the evolution of Feminism as a product that can be purchased, and the impact on grassroots feminism in the global south, specifically Mexico. Today it can be easily stated that Feminism in the United States has gone mainstream, viral even. […]
Read more "Selling Feminism: The price of Empowerment for women in Mexico"Painting is my everything was a visually striking, and emotionally moving exhibit, but sadly the curation and the guided tour shed light to an underwhelming reality that the exhibit tries hard to ignore: power dynamics, especially those between the global south and the global north. As publicly claimed at the very beginning of the exhibit: […]
Read more "A Visit to SF Asian Art Museum"What is sexting? Sexting, or sexting, refers to the act of creating and exchanging texts, photos and/or videos of an erotic nature with another person in a consensual manner. It is a safe and intimate way to explore your sexuality, and therefore, you have the right to express it and live it fully. However, like […]
Read more "A Guide to Safe(er) Sexting"This is how stories seem to go, a man harms a woman, and everyone in power blames the woman for the violence that she received. This past week in Puebla, a student of the Jesuit University, ibero Puebla, was assaulted. She escaped bruised and battered and reached out for help at a friend’s house. Government […]
Read more "Why is it always our fault (or: Stop blaming Women)"Mexico’s numbers in relation to gender-based violence are grave. UN Women (2017) estimates that seven women are robbed of their lives daily in the country, but only less than 2% get to court. Moreover, more than half of women over 15 years old, around 30.7 million women, have experienced diverse forms of violence in their […]
Read more "Online Violence Against Women in Mexico."I remember the summers when I was a kid. We used to spend it as a family in the beach, I would look out the window and see my brothers playing in the pool in the warm tropical days, sipping their cold Yoli, while I stayed the mornings indoors learning how to sew with my […]
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Mari Autrey 