International Women’s Day in photos: it was the march from 8M to CDMX

Mexico City was painted purple to commemorate the International Women’s Day. like everyone 8 March, different groups of women took to the streets to demonstrate and demand an end to gender-based violence. In 2023, girls, youth, students, seniors, trans women, indigenous women and many more have left the Angel of Independence until Basement of the capital to shout slogans and demonstrate the feminist movement.

At the cry of “not one morenot one more, not one more murdered”, “the one who does not jump is a male”, “and it was not my fault, nor where he was, nor how he dressed”, it is as well as thousands of women have appropriated the main avenues of the city to mobilize this 8M.

Around 1 p.m., the first groups of mothers looking for their missing children began to gather at the Angel roundabout, little by little feminist collectives Since UNAM, IPN, The UACM, among other schools, arrived to start the march.

But it was not until 4 p.m. that the greatest number of collectives and groups crossed Reform March To arrive at Juárez Ave. then enter the Zócalo of the CDMX.

Despite the weather, they all arrived prepared with caps, umbrellas and mostly purple T-shirts to give visibility to women’s demands to end violence, harassment and feminicide. And it is that at CDMX, at least 96% of women were victims of some type of violence in public transport in 2019, according to United Nations (UN) data.

Every time they shouted the slogan “he who does not jump is macho”, the ground of the capital trembled and reproduced the jumps. Others took advantage of these moments to intervene in the monuments of the capital.