The first areas of study where material and information will be collected through a collective form and local actors to feed the database and digital repository.
*Huellas incómodas / Uncomfortable Footprints is interested in working in other regions and/or with other social movements. If you are interested in getting involved in the next stages of the project, please let us know and "Contact us"
Case Studies
#1: Student Feminist Movement in Toluca, Mexico
- Local movement in Toluca, Mexico. Student feminist movement that emerged at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico in the mid-twentieth-first century.
Image from El Colectivo
At this stage, Huellas Incómodas / Uncomfortable Footprints refers to the trail that this feminist movement has left as a form of intervention, protest and disclosure of the violence and impunity that the patriarchy, governments, institutions have perpetuated and permitted. This trail is timeless because by its very nature it is ephemeral. These marks have the following characteristics: 1) They are not made with ephemeral material; 2) The same government, society, institutions erase it, forget it or reject it; 3) They are harmless but they cause a lot of discomfort to heteronormative discourses, for example when the powerful party is accused, making him see as the victim because of the relationship he has with the power, which limits the counter demonstrations; 4) They are accused of damaging the cultural heritage, dirtying the city, or being an erroneous form of protest; 5) And, women are pointed out because instead of being the victim is being the victimizer of the heritage.
On the other hand, these "uncomfortable footprints" of the feminist movement are subject to different types of double discourses: 1) The marketing ends up appropriating them and therefore causing the discourse to normalize and lose the power of these acts of protest; 2) Allied organizations/institutions are created and end up normalizing the problem and limiting the forms of demonstration; 3) Other types of social protests are justified and even revered, but protests and intentional traces emerging from feminist movements are undervalued.
Contributed items must be sent in digital format along with certainly required metadata. Material to consider for contribution includes:
- Murals
- Graffiti
- Stencils
- Material used in feminist/social interventions
- Videos
- Audios
- Texts/Documents
- “born-digital” material
#2: Cuenca, Ecuador: Social movements in public space or built cultural heritage
