In the public sphere the murder was depoliticized as drug violence or as a singular act of evil. This time the call came on the occasion of the murder of 16-year old Lucía Pérez, who was brutally raped by a group of men and impaled in the Argentine coastal city Mar del Plata. NiUnaMenos called for the first feminist mass strike in Argentina on October 19, 2016. A further slogan emerged: “#Vivas Nos Queremos” (We want ourselves alive). They were directed against heteronormative bi-genderism, sexism, transphobia and homophobia, and they demanded the legalization of abortion as well as rights for sex workers and trans persons. They expanded thematically to encompass all forms of gender-specific violence and discrimination. At the same time the protests were no longer just about femicide. The movement went viral and transnational. In solidarity with the large mobilizations in Argentina, marches and rallies against violence against women* took place on the same day in Uruguay, Chile and Mexico. In Buenos Aires alone, 200,000 people took to the streets. Just a few weeks after the first NiUnaMenos protest, impressive marches were held again in Argentina’s major cities on June 3, 2015. Chávez, too, was murdered in her hometown in 2011. The name NiUnaMenos recalls the Mexican poet and human rights activist Susana Chávez, who for the first time in 1995 used the slogan “Ni una mujer menos, ni una muerta más” (Not one woman less, not another dead woman) in a call against the high number of murders of women, of femicides, in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. The first protests of NiUnaMenos, then a group of journalists, activists and artists in Argentina, took place on Main the neighborhood of Recoleta in Buenos Aire – after Daiana García was found there ten days earlier dead in a garbage bag. NiUnaMenos, NonUnaDiMeno, Nicht Eine weniger, NotOneLess, not one more murder of women*.
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