Women's march

MONUMENTS AND WORDS It’s hard to know that there is more empathy to a wall, to a door, to a monument than to the death of someone that one day was a mother, a daughter, or a friend. Are these pieces made out of bronze, metal, and stones represent us? What is the real meaning that makes us protect these lifeless figures? Well, María Minera wrote about the statue of Carlos iv and said: “a king, that at the time that the statue was placed in the Zócalo (downtown in Mexico City) he was already overthrown, riding a horse that […] it’s almost stepping on a quiver with the hid leg, and it’s this quiver a very valuable symbol for the Mexica culture”, and that’s the thing here, sometimes we don’t even know who is the statue commemorating or what’s representing. On the other hand, El Ángel de la Independencia represents liberty, freedom, and as time passes by we have been using it as a gathering point for manifestation in pro or against of something, but also we use it to meet and celebrate when the national soccer team wins a game. It’s nowadays when we not only commemorate our independence, but the value of the Victoria Alada have evolved thru the years, and we are making new traditions arrow this symbol. So, if the monuments are “made to remember something", why it has been avoided to recall that in Mexico women are raped, attacked, kidnapped, and murdered every day? As I said before, monuments are made out of bronze, metal, and stones they’re “perfectly repeatable and, forgettable” but what are the words made of? Aren’t words much more powerful and valuable than the commemoration of the king of Spain or a Vietnamese president? There is no doubt, the words that are written in the buildings and monuments, are closer to the reality of what women living in Mexico, and we let everyone know that femicides and extreme violence haven't been solved yet. I wish all women could be monuments, so everyone wouldn’t doubt a second to keep us saved. I wish we can all be Carlos iv o the Victoria Alada so we can always be safeguarded, insured, and protected.