Not One Woman Less in Argentina: Collective intelligence and political friendship

ESPECHE XIMENA

Chicago

Otro; Latin American Studies Program; 2018

Northwestern University

The passionate claim ?All Latin America will be feminist!? was heard from Argentina to the Caribbean, from Brazil to Mexico and so on in the 2016 and 2017 street demonstrations against gender violence. If Latin American integration was a problem and a solution for economical, political and cultural issues according to renowned Latin American activists and intellectuals from the 19th to the 21st century, this calling provides new images and embodiments of regional and transnational feminisms. This talk will narrate and historicize the beginnings of the Ni Una Menos (Not One Women Less) movement and collective in Argentina and in Latin America since 2015. It will focus on the manifestoes and assemblies of the Ni Una Menos collective in Argentina to address what the collective terms ?collective intelligence and political friendship? as strategic modalities for building political organization and structural change.