Post #5 8m and Dance

From a very young age I was always quite interested in attending the 8m marches, I saw many women walking along La Alameda and without knowing the meaning it had, I felt the need to be there and I saw how my sisters were always together on those occasions and sometimes my mother also participated.

Being older, I didn't miss any march for women's day, I liked to go with my sisters and mom, and spend the day marching with many women, shouting and feeling a little freer. But everything changed when I also began to feel the need to express myself in another way, screaming is not enough, wearing the abortion scarf is not enough, walking for hours is not enough. So I decided to bring my art to the protests, and it all makes sense now.

I am a woman who is dedicated to art, specifically to dance, and if I don't take my art with me everywhere, I am not a complete woman. Being able to show my reality as a woman through dance has been a challenge that I have not yet completed, but it is still in process, I have been looking into what art is like in a march or manifestation and there are many ways to do it. At the moment I have explored different ways, but the one that I have found most interesting is to stand on tiptoes in the middle of the chaos, It gives me a feeling of power over myself, as if I were saying that no one can touch me or hurt me. It is feeling really protected by the great woman that I am.

Art has helped me find my way to protest, and so I have been able to continue fighting for my rights as a woman.