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Hello! How are you?

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Today is the last day of...

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Hello.
How are you?

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Hello! How are you?

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I'm Maremoto,
but you can call me Mar.

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I'm an illustrator
from Mexico City.

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Some people who are struggling
identify with your drawings.

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So it’s a way of helping the others.

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Sure, that’s my favourite part.

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When someone tells me
about their connection to my work,

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or about the way it made them feel.
That is my favourite part!

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I am a seed trying to germinate
in forbidden land.

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I am a leaf. I am a stem.
I grow where I can.

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I am a flower that withers

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yet remains alive.

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In this femicidal Mexico,
where 11 women are murdered daily.

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More than 95,000 are missing

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and 53,000 unidentified bodies
are in the forensic medical service.

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We are witnessing
a failed government.

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Femicides in this country
do not stop.

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Yet another story of femicide.
Another story of pain.

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The body of little 7-year-old Fatima
was found in Tlahuac.

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95% of these crimes go unpunished.

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To this day, I don't know
what happened to my daughter.

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But I swear I'll keep looking
and I'll find her.

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No matter what.

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In Mexico women are murdered.

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It's hard to know that in this country,

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being a woman means being violated
day after day,

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and being blamed for the
very violence we experience.

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Alive, free and resisting.

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As a young girl, I wanted
to draw beauty and perfection.

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And now I want to draw women
who look like me.

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And talk about feminism.

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Self-love.

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LGBTQ+ community and
mental health.

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I want my work to feel like a safe space.

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I want people like me
to see themselves in my drawings.

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To know that although the world
out there is falling apart,

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here is a safe house.

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I think that occupying spaces
is a rebellion.

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They teach us to be small,
to be kind and to behave, to shut up.

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To know our 'place'.

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Did he whistle at us?
Fucker.

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I feel they just do it
because they can.

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It is like they are reminding us:

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« This is my space, the street
belongs to us men. »

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It is crucial that we occupy
the city, spaces,

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all available jobs and platforms,

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in every possible way.

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You are the wisdom.

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You belong to yourself.

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May our period be the only
blood we spill.

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Alive.

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Together, free and fearless.

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How is it, to be a woman in Mexico?

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The first things that comes to mind
are ugly things,

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I imagined myself
trapped in a box.

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Terrible!

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I imagine a woman
walking amidst thorns.

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Oh my God, it's horrible.

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It sucks. But it's true.

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What's that?

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Old ladies.

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But they should be happy,
they don't look happy.

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You'll have to make a
happier one.

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I love it. That's it, 100%.
We have to resist.

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Our happiness and our joy
are also revolutionary.

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Drawing has led me to my
feelings without me realising it.

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Literally. I started drawing
when I was a little girl.

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I talk a lot about healing.

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I will heal.

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Because lately I've had many things
to heal.

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I think that when I felt the biggest...

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...change,
was when I talked about my rape.

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It's still difficult,
but when I talked about it

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it was so important for me to
receive that amount of messages

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from girls who had lived
the same thing.

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That was for me like 'Boom!'

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I'm doing this because
I'm helping others.

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You opened a door
and many people approach you

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and share their story
and see themselves in you.

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Sure, it's heavy.

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- It's hard.
- Super hard.

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At least ten women talked about...

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what they lived,
thanks to a post, to an illustration.

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That's what's amazing
about illustration.

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You're literally transforming great pain
or anger in a drawing.

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I like to draw these giant women.

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Who look like they're gonna
come out of the frame.

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This room is very small
for my dreams.

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They seem too big
for the space that contains them.

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I also share photos of myself.

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Me as a little girl.

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Feeling everything very strongly
is my super power.

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Here is a letter
to the child I used to be.

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"Dear Mariana,

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Sometimes the world is going
to feel huge.

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And you'll feel very small.

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Feeling everything, strongly,
is your super power.

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Don't hide it.

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Feeling fear doesn't make
you a coward.

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Sometimes, accepting this fear
is braver than facing it.

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You don't have to be
anything other than yourself."

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I'm gonna cry.

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"Forgive me for treating us
so badly. I love you. Mar."

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Hello humans,
my name is...

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I come from space.
From a galaxy far away.

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To bring you
a very important message.

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This message is...

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Superheroes always pose
like this.

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I want to live forever
with this make-up on.

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I want to be a robot
from the future forever.

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With my gun
that I made myself.

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Yesterday I posted some pictures
and it was funny:

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a fight started in
my Instagram comments.

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Someone asked me
if I wasn't ashamed

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to have hairy armpits.

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If you never shaved your armpits

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and one day you feel like doing it,
great.

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If you've never shaved, great.
If you've always shaved, great.

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Do whatever you want with your hair

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but don't tell others what to do
with theirs.

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That's all. Kisses.

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Welcome!

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Are you Maremoto?
- Yes, that's me.

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Can I give you a hug?
- Of course.

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I love you.

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I love you, you've helped me so much.
- Thank you.

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It's the best day
of my fucking life!

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I had never done any art,
never made myself up this way.

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But then I started,

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I cultivated myself, I learned,
thanks to you, to deconstruct myself,

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to not judge but accept myself more,
and defend my ideas.

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It's okay not to be the standard,
I'm myself.

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I need to accept myself,
to accept my body the way it is.

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I learned so much just by following
you on Instagram.

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I feel very special today.
- Thank you.

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You are very special,
and we are always very special.

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Always, every day of our life.

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Thank you, Mar.

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It makes me feel that what I do
is important

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and that other people see it.

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It's really beautiful.

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Clothes, clothes! Crazy, extravagant,
elegant clothes!

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-It's very elegant indeed.
-Yes it is.

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He's not lying.

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Sometimes I don't realise
that they are looking at me,

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but if they start whistling...

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We have to put up with it.

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Kiss, kiss!

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Ovaries.
- Exactly. Ovaries.

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Women and children
under 12 only

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One day, when I was in high school,

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I took the subway with a friend
to go to the historical city centre.

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It was so full, we couldn't
not feel the other people's bodies.

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I felt someone grab my butt
and squeeze, hard.

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My heart skipped a beat,
I felt a paralysing fear.

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They make you feel like
your body doesn't belong to you.

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Public transport in Mexico city

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the subway, the bus,
are divided

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between mixed
and women-only carriages.

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For the time being, it's
important that it exists.

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But I think that it's a temporary
solution to a gigantic problem.

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Because even if you get out
of the subway, they harass you.

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I'm scared to get used to being scared

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and I'm infuriated when people
tell us that there's no other way.

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I live in fear of living in fear.

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I'm scared to raise my voice.

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Scared to remain silent.

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A lot of tears.

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She cries a lot.

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Just like me.

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All my life, I've been accompanied
by sadness.

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It's the emotion I am most
in touch with.

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Melancholy, sadness...

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I guess that a lot of people
are scared of these emotions.

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But they are close to me.

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My mum always tells me that I
shouldn't draw so many sad things.

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Cause people will think
that I'm depressed.

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She always keeps a
watchful eye on me.

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Sadness is always somewhere
with me.

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It's the way it is.

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Feel it all.

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From time to time,
something overwhelms me.

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It overflows me
from all sides.

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Storm.

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Monsoon.

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I want to be a river
and not a dam.

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To put an end to the lack of water
that dehydrates me.

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To irrigate the land
and feed the field.

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Let's add an emoji.

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Hi Mar. Your drawing touched me
to the core of my being.

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Something overflows me
and I can't breathe.

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As if my own tears

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penetrated my lungs
and suffocated me.

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I miss my mother
and my little sister so much.

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My mum and my little sister
had music in their veins.

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They would dance with such flow,
like a river becoming a waterfall.

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Two years ago, they went together
to my sister's first dance.

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But that night,
they got taken away from me.

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I was told
that they asked for this song.

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Really?

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It's called 'Sad Farewell'.

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When I watch it,
I feel very emotional.

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Since it was the last time...

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the last time they went
to a dance.

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I feel very emotional because
I remember them so vividly.

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Of course.

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It was the last video that
my mum and sister posted.

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They were found the next day.

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Did you find them?

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My cousin told me the news.

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We went to identify their bodies.

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That's my grandmother.

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Angelica.

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Who is it?
- Carlita.

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Carlita.

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And there are more of my mother.

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Show it to her.

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One of the killers will get out of jail
in just two years.

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His four-year prison sentence isn't
worth my mother's and sister's lives.

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Plus, I live with fear now.

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It's a fear I didn't use to have.

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I can't run errands without
my husband now.

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I don't dare to go out alone anymore.

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I'm very scared that something could
happen, to me or my daughters.

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The police asked us for 10000 pesos
to investigate the mobile phones.

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We didn't have the money.

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If we had, we would've payed.

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To see if they could collect
more evidence.

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But I will continue fighting and
shouting for my mum and sister,

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and keep demanding to see
justice done for them.

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Of course.
- Yes.

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The violence that persecutes
women in this country

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doesn't look like a huge,
invisible fist.

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But that’s the way it feels,
like a firm and crushing hand.

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I wish it looked
like the hand of a giant.

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Since it might be easier
to defeat than an entire country.

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I wish it looked more
like a giant's fist

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and less like the bloody
front pages of our newspapers

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and all the articles
about missing women.

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I wish it was just one giant

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rather than thousands of
stalkers, rapists,

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perpetrators of femicides,
police, judges,

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experts,
and those who look away.

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Fear of losing one's name
and becoming just another statistic.

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We are tired of saying 'please'!

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No more 'please'!

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Enough, Mr. President!

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We are your voice!

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I am Angelica's daughter,
and Carla's sister.

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A minor killed them and
only got a four-year sentence.

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The lives of my mum and sister
are worth more than four years!

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I demand justice to be done for them!

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Not all of us will be lucky.

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Being lucky today
is being alive.

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It's having a boyfriend who isn't
a rapist, an abuser, or a murderer.

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It's when 'Death' doesn't fancy
your waist size

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and doesn't follow you with his truck.

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I don't know what to do with this rage.

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My friends and partners don't either.

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Complaints and complaints
and complaints!

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But never anyone behind bars.

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They are free, outside,
getting some girl drunk,

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to see if they can 'seduce' her
in a few hours.

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Oh, dear Death.

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No, don't come today.

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Oh, dear Death.

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Don't come.

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I am a mother
and they killed my daughter.

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Yes, I am an empowered mother.
And a feminist.

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And I'm fucking angry. I have
every right to burn and break it all.

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Talk about the girls who are raped
in their cribs by their own fathers!

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And their families are forced to remain
silent because of the Catholic religion.

00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.800
Before murdering my daughter,
they murdered many, a lot...

00:29:57.120 --> 00:30:00.920
How were we, women, doing?
Crying and embroidering at home.

00:30:01.080 --> 00:30:02.880
Not anymore, gentlemen!
It's over!

00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:16.640
Women have taken over a building

00:30:16.800 --> 00:30:19.320
in the historic centre of Mexico City.

00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:22.600
It used to be the National Commission
for Human Rights.

00:30:22.760 --> 00:30:29.280
It has been taken over by women who
have turned it into a refuge, a squat.

00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.240
I'm sharing information
about what is happening

00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:36.440
and how to support these women
who are in the building.

00:30:36.600 --> 00:30:38.680
That's what we are
going to do today.

00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.560
I can feel the seeds growing
in all of us, women.

00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:17.560
We are putting down roots in this city.

00:31:20.320 --> 00:31:23.240
We all fight from our own battlefield.

00:31:23.840 --> 00:31:27.160
Some with words,
others with art.

00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:30.040
Some with direct action.

00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.360
This is the shelter.

00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:41.280
This is a room for female refugees,

00:31:41.280 --> 00:31:45.520
and on the other side there are also
rooms for female refugees.

00:31:46.040 --> 00:31:51.680
Usually, they are women fleeing
from their aggressors.

00:31:52.040 --> 00:31:55.080
The aggressors are usually
their husbands.

00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:00.080
And here are the hoodies.

00:32:00.360 --> 00:32:02.000
Hello hoodies!

00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:05.960
They are the strongest reason
for me to be doing this.

00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:12.800
When I found out about the squat,
I did this illustration inspired by it.

00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:14.520
This sentence...

00:32:14.760 --> 00:32:18.400
I always have it in mind:
"Resist, persist,

00:32:18.560 --> 00:32:20.120
never desist."

00:32:20.840 --> 00:32:25.320
That's the kind of thing
that tells us: "Keep going!

00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:27.200
Don't give up!"
Thank you.

00:32:27.360 --> 00:32:32.080
No, thank you. Really.
- Thank you very much.

00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:36.680
I'll offer it to 'la Flaca'.
- Sure.

00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:39.640
Here, look.

00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:47.440
The altar is composed of
our trophies, as offerings.

00:32:48.840 --> 00:32:51.760
I got some little things here and there.

00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:17.600
I know that I'm not the only one
who suffered abuse by police officers.

00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:21.200
They beat me.

00:33:21.360 --> 00:33:22.640
Tortured me.

00:33:23.080 --> 00:33:24.880
Raped me.

00:33:29.360 --> 00:33:32.560
The famous Rosario Piedra room.

00:33:33.320 --> 00:33:35.080
It's like our fortress,

00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:39.840
where we keep our supplies
to make Molotov cocktails.

00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:42.720
These are our weapons.

00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:46.840
Bottles, to be thrown...

00:33:47.080 --> 00:33:48.920
Gasoline...

00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.240
The 'little molotov cocktails'...

00:33:51.760 --> 00:33:57.280
With my 4.92 feet high,
when the cops see me, they run away.

00:33:57.440 --> 00:33:59.720
They leave their patrols
and flee.

00:33:59.880 --> 00:34:03.840
Fear has changed sides.

00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:08.400
These drawings, these lips
have been painted by my daughter.

00:34:08.560 --> 00:34:12.840
She is 7 and she is a victim
of sexual assault.

00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:18.160
Why is our president offended
by this painting?

00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:21.360
Why wasn't he shocked when
my daughter was raped?

00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:28.520
Today, like every day,
we wake up with the news

00:34:28.680 --> 00:34:30.800
that more femicides
have been committed,

00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:33.400
in a country where women
are killed

00:34:33.560 --> 00:34:36.480
just for being women,

00:34:37.720 --> 00:34:42.040
where impunity is absolute,

00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:48.480
where drug trafficking is more important
than thousands of women's lives.

00:34:50.720 --> 00:34:58.600
It is very difficult to get used to the
idea that if something happens to you,

00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:02.160
probably nothing will happen.

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:06.800
Ruthless.

00:35:32.080 --> 00:35:35.400
Mexico is ruthless.

00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:47.560
It's chilling
to see these little dots.

00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:50.600
And to think that they are people.

00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:56.400
We have to remember
that this is not normal.

00:35:57.520 --> 00:36:01.360
It's something that is happening
every day.

00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:04.000
A lot.
But it's not normal.

00:36:21.560 --> 00:36:23.120
Hello.

00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:29.600
I'm so happy to see you.

00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:34.440
Have you eaten?

00:36:34.680 --> 00:36:35.680
Yes.

00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:39.920
Thanks, but I've eaten a lot.

00:36:41.040 --> 00:36:43.360
How are you?
- Good and you?

00:36:45.160 --> 00:36:48.480
She's blocked me on Instagram.
- Blocked you, why?

00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:50.520
I don't know, but she blocked me.

00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:54.280
Sometimes she would take
very explicit pictures.

00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:55.800
In her underwear.

00:36:57.680 --> 00:36:59.840
They don't exist anymore,
they're not there anymore.

00:37:00.160 --> 00:37:02.720
And so I thought:
"Oh, but..."

00:37:03.040 --> 00:37:08.480
As a parent, you...
How can I say?

00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:11.680
She's so spontaneous,
so natural...

00:37:12.200 --> 00:37:16.040
But as a parent, you think:
"Oh boy..."

00:37:16.200 --> 00:37:21.320
But then you realise
that all you see,

00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:24.720
is actually...

00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:28.320
your own taboos.

00:37:30.600 --> 00:37:32.920
Sometimes it's worrying,

00:37:33.600 --> 00:37:36.480
since there are so many
crazy and agressive people.

00:37:37.640 --> 00:37:39.080
I'm afraid.

00:37:39.240 --> 00:37:43.920
You talk about machismo and...
a lot of people don't like that.

00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:46.800
And they attack others.
We have told you:

00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:48.960
You must be very careful.

00:37:49.640 --> 00:37:52.160
Mexico City is very,
very unsafe.

00:37:53.160 --> 00:37:56.240
We never stop worrying
about Mar.

00:37:56.600 --> 00:37:58.880
Not just because of the city
but of the whole country.

00:37:59.040 --> 00:38:03.280
The whole country experiences
an impressive wave of violence.

00:38:05.600 --> 00:38:08.680
What about the defence classes
you'd mentioned?

00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:10.400
Self-defence?

00:38:10.560 --> 00:38:12.720
I'm going to a class tomorrow.

00:38:14.200 --> 00:38:15.440
To learn how to hit.

00:38:26.560 --> 00:38:31.120
As women, systematic,
sexist, patriarchal violence

00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:33.960
isn't only what we experience
at home.

00:38:34.120 --> 00:38:35.680
That's direct violence.

00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:39.520
The things that happen to us,
when we are beaten and hurt,

00:38:39.680 --> 00:38:44.280
that's direct violence. But there
is a whole system supporting it.

00:38:45.080 --> 00:38:48.760
This system includes
the violence against our bodies.

00:38:49.240 --> 00:38:52.040
We are kept in this dynamic

00:38:52.200 --> 00:38:54.040
of not expressing ourselves,
of not being.

00:38:54.920 --> 00:38:58.880
My first contact with self-defence

00:38:59.040 --> 00:39:01.880
happened when I looked
for resources for my daughter.

00:39:02.040 --> 00:39:04.000
Since we come from Ecatepec,

00:39:04.160 --> 00:39:07.960
another super violent place
in Mexico.

00:39:08.520 --> 00:39:11.440
I just moved and I'm living alone.

00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:16.080
So I really want to know
how to react,

00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:20.640
to feel safe in the streets.

00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:22.440
I've experienced many losses.

00:39:22.600 --> 00:39:25.960
But the one that hit me the hardest
was the loss of my sister.

00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:32.880
She died... precisely
because of physical abuse,

00:39:34.080 --> 00:39:36.560
by her ex-partner.

00:39:37.040 --> 00:39:44.440
I went through a terrible experience
where I didn't know what to do.

00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:51.080
That's what brings me here,
I want to learn how to defend myself.

00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:54.080
And become strong.

00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:59.400
And get over the trauma
of going out alone in the street.

00:40:01.560 --> 00:40:02.560
No!

00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:05.920
There are three levels
to say 'No'.

00:40:06.080 --> 00:40:09.640
A nicer 'No' can mean:
"Let me through.

00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:11.960
Move away, my friend. All good."

00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:14.720
The "No, please. Come on.

00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:18.600
Let us both go. I don't want
to have this conversation."

00:40:19.080 --> 00:40:21.480
Or the "No! That's it!"

00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:26.680
The last 'No!' has a strongest
volume and must be concrete.

00:40:27.240 --> 00:40:28.920
Starting position.

00:40:30.160 --> 00:40:31.840
Now.
- No!

00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:02.160
My sister was a municipal police
officer for 14 years.

00:41:05.640 --> 00:41:07.160
My mother...

00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:18.600
She called me around 10:30 pm or so...

00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:23.960
And said: "Your sister is dead.

00:41:25.720 --> 00:41:31.800
Your sister is dead,
because of a bastard.

00:41:33.120 --> 00:41:35.280
I've lost my daughter
because of a bastard."

00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:39.360
I said: "What? She's dead?
What happened?

00:41:39.520 --> 00:41:41.800
Are you lying?

00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:44.080
Why?
No..."

00:41:45.680 --> 00:41:51.040
She died wearing her uniform.

00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:55.040
We wonder why,
being a police officer,

00:41:55.760 --> 00:42:00.120
she didn't do something
or defend herself.

00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.480
It's not so much about
empowerment.

00:42:09.640 --> 00:42:11.400
No, that's not it.

00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:14.840
It's about how we see ourselves.

00:42:15.240 --> 00:42:18.320
Who we are, what we are worth,
and what we want.

00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:40.320
I feel divided, I have the feeling
that I'm not doing enough.

00:43:43.240 --> 00:43:47.840
I feel weird,
being here in my house, drawing,

00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:51.600
while these women
are going through these things.

00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:58.560
As a white privileged woman
from Mexico city,

00:43:59.720 --> 00:44:01.680
I feel like an imposter.

00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:09.880
Drawings won't prevent anybody
from being killed.

00:44:10.040 --> 00:44:14.760
Or put the guilty ones
in jail.

00:44:17.080 --> 00:44:19.520
I'm doing something but...

00:44:20.600 --> 00:44:22.400
it's not enough.

00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:26.520
The revolution belongs to all women.

00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.400
This 8th of March nothing
is holding us back.

00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:35.880
This Sunday 8th of March,
the country is going to shake

00:44:36.040 --> 00:44:38.200
with the sound of the women's
footsteps and shouts

00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:39.920
throughout the entire
Mexican Republic.

00:44:40.080 --> 00:44:42.560
We have had enough of the
systemic violence

00:44:42.720 --> 00:44:44.240
that stalks us every day.

00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:47.080
March 8th is International
Women's Day

00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:48.760
but it is not a celebration.

00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:52.080
Come walk, shout,
run, dance, cry,

00:44:52.240 --> 00:44:54.560
Come feel
surrounded by us all.

00:44:54.720 --> 00:44:55.880
And fill yourself with hope,

00:44:56.040 --> 00:44:58.880
for you too are part
of the feminist revolution.

00:44:59.040 --> 00:45:03.680
We're going to overthrow patriarchy.
And we'll be fine. We are together.

00:45:12.720 --> 00:45:16.760
On top of being a rapist,
you're a coward and a liar.

00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:19.720
Poor guy.
- Yes.

00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:24.000
My parents told me:

00:45:24.160 --> 00:45:27.880
"Take care of yourself,
you are not gonna change the world."

00:45:28.240 --> 00:45:34.840
I thought, only because I can't change
the world, I'm supposed to do nothing?

00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:41.160
I should stay seated, like that,
and simply... exist?

00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:45.960
We are very sad and lonely
after these last two years.

00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:51.840
We do this to tell ourselves that we're
not alone and that it's okay to be sad.

00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.520
And the sky is clearing up a bit.

00:45:54.680 --> 00:45:58.840
This protest, this day,
are like a promise.

00:45:59.880 --> 00:46:03.960
That things will get better. Maybe.
- Yes.

00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:10.440
No no no!

00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:12.840
This is not an isolated incident.

00:46:13.160 --> 00:46:17.320
Femicides are state crimes!

00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:19.080
No no no!

00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:21.360
This is not an isolated incident.

00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:25.840
Femicides are state crimes!

00:46:27.320 --> 00:46:31.280
We are bad but we can be worse.

00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:33.080
Those who don't like it...

00:46:33.240 --> 00:46:35.200
can go fuck themselves!

00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:51.360
Never yours.

00:46:52.200 --> 00:46:53.600
Always ours.

00:46:54.080 --> 00:46:55.160
We are united.

00:46:55.720 --> 00:46:57.400
We are the scream, the spark,

00:46:57.560 --> 00:46:58.680
we are the flame.

00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:00.120
We are fire.

00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:01.960
We burn.

00:47:02.520 --> 00:47:04.920
For those of us who are here
and for those they took away.

00:47:08.520 --> 00:47:10.560
Sister, here is your pack.

00:47:10.720 --> 00:47:14.280
Listen, woman, this is your fight.

00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:17.040
How are you?

00:47:18.640 --> 00:47:19.560
Can we take a picture?

00:47:19.720 --> 00:47:21.560
I hugged you without asking you.

00:47:21.720 --> 00:47:23.960
Me neither, sorry.
I'm a fan of your art.

00:47:24.120 --> 00:47:26.000
Thank you.

00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:31.640
Thank you for existing.
- Thank you for being here today.

00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:33.360
I love you.

00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:35.920
Can I give you a hug?
- Of course!

00:47:37.520 --> 00:47:38.920
You inspire us.

00:47:39.080 --> 00:47:43.360
You give young girls
a new perspective.

00:47:44.240 --> 00:47:46.120
So cool that you made this.
- Thank you.

00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:48.200
Thank you!
- Happy you like it.

00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:50.200
I love it!

00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:53.600
Bye.
- Bye!

00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:05.200
I want us alive and free

00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:18.800
I'm sick of people
defending violent men.

00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:21.560
Of men protecting each other.

00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:28.480
Of knowing that each and every corner
of this system is rotten inside.

00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:33.120
Of hearing women be accused
of 'having looked' for abuse.

00:48:35.200 --> 00:48:37.800
But we have started now
and we won't stop.

00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:40.800
We will never shut up again.

00:49:14.040 --> 00:49:17.520
It's very pretty.
- Yeah, they're beautiful.

00:49:24.680 --> 00:49:27.240
Today is my sister's birthday.

00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:32.200
I'm going to play her a song

00:49:36.080 --> 00:49:39.080
that I want to dedicate to her.

00:49:42.040 --> 00:49:49.080
Come back to me,
little piece of my soul,

00:49:53.080 --> 00:50:01.080
Come back to me,
I long for you.

00:50:04.160 --> 00:50:11.720
Come back to me,
little piece of heaven,

00:50:15.040 --> 00:50:17.920
Come back to me,

00:50:18.680 --> 00:50:21.840
You were my comfort

00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:25.680
For the pain I suffered

00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:30.560
In the last times.

00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:46.080
They wanted to bury us, but...

00:50:47.160 --> 00:50:49.960
they did not know
that we would be seeds.

00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:52.800
It's about that...

00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:59.920
The more they try to make us small,
the more violence there is,

00:51:00.600 --> 00:51:04.000
the more we'll keep on fighting.

00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.800
The women you murdered
will come back.

00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:14.560
It's about flourishing, growing,
growing roots.

00:51:14.720 --> 00:51:19.800
About keeping on growing
and moving forward together.

00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:29.200
Drawing is my battlefield.

00:51:36.600 --> 00:51:38.040
About being a seed

00:51:38.200 --> 00:51:41.160
and trying to germinate
in a soil that isn't mine.

00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:44.160
About releasing roots and branches

00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:46.880
with a little hope accompanying them.