“I have every right to burn and smash things. I’m not gonna ask for anyone’s permission...because before they murdered my daughter they murdered many other women and what were we all doing? Crying and sewing from the comfort of our homes. That’s over now.”
Yesenia Zamudio, mother of María de Jesùs Jaime Zamudio:
“If you see me wearing black, if I’m too radical, if I burn and smash things, and if I make a goddamn mess in this city, what’s your goddamn problem with that? My daughter was murdered.”
“If you see me wearing black, if I’m too radical, if I burn and smash things, and if I make a goddamn mess in this city, what’s your goddamn problem with that? My daughter was murdered.”
“I’m not part of an activist group. I don’t need a drum, nor a goddamn political party to represent me. I represent myself and without a microphone. I’m a mother whose daughter was murdered.”
“And yes I’m an empowered mother and a feminist. And I’ve had enough of this bullshit. I have every right to burn and smash things. I’m not gonna ask for anyone’s permission because I’m smashing things for my daughter.”
“Whoever wants to smash things go ahead. And whoever wants to burn things go ahead. And whoever doesn’t want to do not get in our way!”
“Because before they murdered my daughter they murdered many other women and what were we all doing? Crying and sewing from the comfort of our homes. Well that’s over now.”
“We already broke the silence and we won’t let them make a damn circus out of our pain. If you’re gonna speak up, speak about all of them.”
“Speak about all the women who are raped and harassed by teachers and by public servants. The women who’ve had acid thrown at them. Talk about the girls who are raped in their cribs by their own fathers.”
“I demand justice for myself for my family and for my daughter. And for all the women no one names because every single day they murder one another and another. I haven’t been able to solve my daughter’s case and I’ve already seen 10, 100, 1000 new cases,” Yesenia Zamudio.
In 2019, the #Mexican government recorded 1,006 incidents of femicide, the crime of killing women or girls because of their gender — a 10 percent increase from 2018. At least 10 women are murdered every day. google.com/amp/s/www.nyti… #NiUnaMenos #NiUnaMas
Yesenia Zamudio’s 19yo daughter Maria was a victim of femicide. I can’t find an article in English about her but here’s one in Spanish about this powerful viral video.
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Love and solidarity with my feminist sisters and comrades in #Mexico for their planned A Day Without Women, a women’s strike, on March 9 to protest femicide google.com/amp/s/mobile.r… #NiUnaMas #NiUnaMenos
In 2016, Yesenia’s 19yo daughter María de Jesús Jaime Zamudio was murdered when launched from a fifth floor of a building in the Ticomán neighborhood in Mexico City. #NiUnaMas #NiUnaMenos
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Yesenia Zamudio’s rage, profanity, insistence that it is her right to smash & burn things, and the power that she commands are the embodiment of what I write about in The Necessary Sins For Women and Girls. I send love & solidarity to her & feminist sisters & comrades everywhere 
