September 28th is International Safe Abortion Day. On this day, we bear witness to the struggle for the bodily autonomy of women, transmen, and childbearing people, which transcends our bodies and spreads onto the streets, courts, and legislative chambers.
Defending Life in All Its Profusion of Expressions: Decolonization, Anti-racism, and Harmonizing Textiles as Diverse Paths to Freedom
Chahim A’jam Vásquez Leal, shares reflections, feelings and thoughts that she has lived through actions for the defense of life in plurality of existences, as well as concerns and proposals for freedoms to defend plural expressions of life.
New partnership to support gender-just climate action: The Government of Canada with the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action
“At GAGGA, we have seen how the synergy of women, trans, intersex, and non-binary voices can reshape climate narratives, drive impactful solutions, and challenge the status quo”. Executive director, GAGGA Lead Organisation.
Central American Streets: The Cradle of Counter-hegemonic Activism
“Down with prisons, jails, and borders. Anti-colonial resistance in the barrios and villages.” With these powerful words and to the beat of rap music, Leafrox launched the virtual conversation “Disruptive Notions: Intersectionality and Decoloniality in Central...
Seeking justice, fueled by righteous rage and joy
Justice for many people continues to be an illusion, a chimera, but also something that is built from below and with the soil. This is how women defenders in Central America.
Transfeminism and anti-racism in Central America: Two sister struggles
Transfeminists in the region are committed to uniting all bodies and all marginalized groups to fight patriarchy, capitalism, and, of course, racism with a Central American perspective.
A History of the Struggle for Women’s Labor Rights in Honduras
Paula Urbina, maquila worker and secretary of the Board of Directors of the Honduran Women’s Collective CODEMUH. Her name is Paula Urbina, and she is forty-two years old. More than twenty years ago, when she migrated from the countryside to the city with her sisters...
A History of the Struggle for Women’s Labor Rights in Costa Rica
Rosita Acosta, former domestic worker and founder of the Association of Women Domestic Workers (ASTRADOMES)
A History of the Struggle for Women’s Labor Rights in Guatemala
Rosa Delia Galicia López, former domestic and maquila worker and general coordinator of the Association of Employed and Unemployed Women United against Violence (AMUCV).