Antropólogas feministas frente a la pandemia en México

Abstract

In Mexico, on March 8th, 2020, thousands of feminists went out to the streets to protest against feminicides, gender and sexual violence, disappearances, and other injustices. Some days after we were obligated to lockdown in our homes. During the COVID-2020 pandemic, women were in the first line of the crisis, particularly, indigenous, Afro-descendant, poor, lesbian, trans, domestic workers women, cleaners, cookers, caregivers and many who live in the day.

      In this article, we will analyze the context of the health and social emergency that is not a current crisis, but a long time process, and that worsened with the disaster of the pandemic. In this sense, what are the challenges of feminist anthropologists face some policies that proclaim a supposed equality but that strongly affect women, depoliticize feminisms, and promote mega projects and extractivisms? How can we challenge the inconceivable government budget cuts that directly affected projects such as “Casas de la Mujer Indígena o Afromexicana” (Cami), gender alerts, health, and education? We will reflect from feminist anthropologies approaches on the implications of this process in a sexist, racist, class, dispossession, and extractivist context.