In many towns and cities, women next Monday will skip school, work and other activities to show how public life looks without them, delivering a critique of the violence that has led to a surge in femicides, or gender-motivated killings of women.
"This is like the lost village, the tiny collective, the nobody women ... but sooner or later, it was going to happen," said Unda, whose group in the eastern state of Veracruz lives off its own funds, plus sales of bandannas and key chains. In Veracruz, one of the main battlegrounds of warring drug cartels, femicides leapt almost 300% to 159 in 2019, fuelling the indignation of women's advocacy groups.
"It's not just the obvious crisis of femicides in Mexico but also what happens every day at home, at school, at work. There's no place that is safe for us."
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