Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires Inaugurated the exhibition “Healing Tattoos”, with photographs of women who have suffered gender-based violence and covered their injuries with tattoos.
This work has been done by members of Mandinga Tattoo who managed to hide surgeries, burns and other scars on the skin.
During the inauguration, Matías López, first vice president of the Legislature, was accompanied by Diego Startopoli, director of the Mandinga Foundation, and highlighted the work being done to accompany women in processes of violence. Likewise, he said that this action seeks to “transform horror and pain into art” in order to “heal the soul in some way”.
“This exhibition is a way to honor not only the 15 you see. We have tattooed many more women who are not part of this gallery. But in tribute to them, I just say thank you,” the tattoo artist said. And he added: “I hope this story can change at some point because it is really very worrying.”
“I met him through another girl who was admitted to the hospital with me,” victim Yanina said. 40 percent of his body is burnt in 2010, when he was 23 years old. And he commented: “Before I didn’t look at myself, I used to wear a long-sleeved shirt in my house and when Diego gave me this tattoo, it really changed my life. Even the security of being able to speak out.”
For the ninth consecutive year, on this June 3, a new march of not even one less inspired by the femicide of across the country Chiara PaezA 14-year-old teenager was beaten to death in the town of Rufino, Santa Fe province, Argentina; since 2015, thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand justice for her and all women victims of violence. To date, according to the latest data, In Argentina a woman is murdered every 35 hours. In that framework, Many celebrities expressed themselves through their social networks and in various streaming programs.
“In the face of the hatred and cruelty of this government, we continue to organize, to weave networks that sustain us. Like nine years ago, every June 3, we say again: not one less”, thus ended the reading of the document, which demanded justice for the victims of femicide.
With the recognition of Nora Cortinas, co-founder of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, who died last Friday, the reading of the document by various protesters began at the central event.
The speech also criticised the management of President Xavier Miley, and stated: “We are living in a moment of intense attacks For all our people.Miley’s government has established cruelty and hatred as state policy. The violence of the Miley government is social, economic and political. To this we respond: we will stay in the streets and keep mobilizing! We keep shouting: Not one less. We love each other alive, free and debt-free. Out of the IMF!
In addition, he referred to the recent female murders and assured: “We are shocked and united by this Massacre in Barracas due to triple lesbianism. We demand justice for Pamela, Roxana and Andrea, who were brutally murdered with two Molotov cocktails for being lesbians. Silence is complicity. We demand from Jorge Macri and the city government a reparative solution for Sofia, a survivor of the massacre: we demand an adequate housing response and comprehensive support over time and that guarantees her the perspective of a dignified life free from violence. No less than a lesbian!”
And they added: “We denounce the feminicides, lesbianides, transvesticides, transfemicides and transhomicides that are increasing day by day and the violent actions of the misogynistic judiciary and we denounce the media siege. We demand justice for the transvesticide of Sofia Fernández at the hands of the police, the femicide of Mariel Jiménez in Lugano; of Erika Torres, a teacher from Chaco; of Claudia Tupa Lotor and Mikaela Ruscovsky. The State is responsible.”
The event began on a stage set up around the National Congress, where the demonstration takes place, and was preceded by a massive invocation.
As more people arrive at the Plaza de las Dos Congresos, the police monitor the marches and make sure they stay on the sidewalks without obstructing passage through the area.
While waiting for the main event to begin, the songs anticipate some of the demands that will be expressed during the reading of the document that begins at 6:30 p.m. The protesters demand, “Down with adjustment.”
Following the widespread call for this Monday’s march, members of various groups are already concentrated in Crossing of two congresses. The main event is expected to start around 6:30 p.m. Journalists are expected there Liliana Downes Read a document that states the key claims.
Attendees included women affiliated with the collectives Ni Una Menos, the Socialist Workers Movement (MST), the Las Rozas group, and the Central of Argentine Workers (CTA).
This Monday marks nine years since the historic mobilization “Not even one less”Created on 3 June 2015, which changed history From Argentina, Latin America and around the world because it raised the voices of women against sexual exploitation, gender violence and femicide. It was the march of the word because nobody wanted to leave the square and girls, adults, daughters, granddaughters, grandmothers told stories they had always been silent about and from that moment on, they became a storm of stories, protests and demands.
There were already 127 victims of femicide between January and May this year. 152 days, 127 people murdered for being women, gay, transvestite/transAccording to the latest report of the Femicide Observatory directed by the La Casa del Encuentro Civil association.
“Data collected since 2014 show considerable stability in direct femicide rates. From an initial figure of 1.03 direct femicide victims per 100,000 women in 2014, it rises to 1.05 in 2023, with only slightly lower levels in 2021 (0.99) and 2022 (0.96). Taking into account the possible underreporting of the first years and subsequent updates in at least these 10 years 2,446 direct victims of femicide
an average of about 245 per year,” highlighted National Registry of Femicide which is the Supreme Court Justice releases this Friday.Today they killed a woman in Argentina. Tomorrow they are going to kill another one. And so on every 35 hours. There were already 127 victims of femicide between January and May of this year. 152 days, 127 people murdered for being women, gay, transvestite/transAccording to the latest report of the Femicide Observatory directed by the La Casa del Encuentro Civil association.
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