Yvette Torres Valera

Prof.Hollis Glaser

GWS 100-1300

An artwork I would like to present is an artwork I saw outside a house in Mexico City. Mexico City is known for its beautiful art outside of buildings and houses they all have a meaning and its unique in their own way. But what caught my attention was the ones I saw around my house in Mexico City that show how many feminist women live around my area. In Mexico, there is a lot of gender violence and women are tired of people taking advantage of women people and not doing anything about it. Sexual violence increases every year in Mexico.INEGI estimated that more than 70% of 50.5 million women and girls aged over 15 have experienced some kind of violence, up four percentage points from the last time it ran the survey in 2016. Women are fed up in Mexico so they all join together and march for the rights of women for instance “The Glitter Revolution” is one of the many marches they’ve done for protecting women. There are many stories that I have heard when I went to Mexico that things are crazy for young girls and women around Mexico and how it’s never safe to be alone. I have experienced my share of sexual assault here in America and seeing that in my home country, they’re fighting for the rights of protecting women who are victims of all these negative acts shows that we are all strong empowered women who we will stand together when it comes to protecting our bodies and we are all in the same page no matter where you are from.