GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: The photo and name of an alleged sex offender are displayed on a poster, denoting the personal nature of the feelings many of the demonstrators harbor. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: A Demonstrator shows up at the march drenched in fake blood and hood to express the trauma caused by gender violence. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: A Mexican flag with fake blood splatters is hoisted by a demonstrator next to a sign that reads: “Where fear once existed, now there are shrieks of rage”. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: This liquor store may have run out of plywood and improvised sympathetic messaging with purple ribbons in an effort to dissuade any potential vandalism. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: A contingent of armed radical feminist demonstrators walk down Chapultepec avenue searching for a suitable opening to vandalize the BBVA bank building next to them. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: Three girls watch from the street as the radical feminist group finds an unguarded spot and starts ripping the plywood off the windows. On one of the planks, a scathing retort is spray-painted in purple: “This is how you should protect girls”. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: Storefronts along Chapultepec avenue opt for different strategies to avoid vandalism by the radical feminist groups. The coffee shop on the right boarded all its windows, while the sushi bar on the left chose to display symbols that showed sympathy to their cause. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: Demonstrators wait for the approaching mass of fellow demonstrators on Vallarta avenue. The building behind them is boarded up in anticipation of acts of vandalism. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: A group of demonstrators kneel on the pavement for an impromptu rally at the intersection of Vallarta and Chapultepec in Guadalajara. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: Crowds of demonstrators stand at the intersection of Vallarta and Chapultepec in Guadalajara, carrying posters and a big purple flag bearing a symbol. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: Purple smoke rises up ahead as demonstrators await the rest of the caravan of protestors coming from Parque Rojo (Red Park) a few blocks away. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: Women demonstrators arrive at the Niños Heroes monument carrying incense offerings. One blows into a conch shell, which in the pre-hispanic traditions, was done to announce important events. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: A scrim banner behind the crowd of demonstrators reads “Mother, I do believe you”, the name of an activist collective against domestic violence, especially that which targets mothers. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: The Niños Heroes monument is a regular meeting point for demonstrations and its base is covered year round with missing persons posters, put there by citizens frustrated by the government’s inaction in the face of an epidemic of disappearances. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: Women chant as they march down Vallarta avenue. The sign carried by the woman in pink reads “Smash the Patriarchy” in English, denotes the international nature of the cause. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: Hand prints with red paint meant to mimic blood are left behind by the demonstrators across many urban surfaces, like the edge of this concrete fountain on Chapultepec avenue. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: A group of radical women’s rights protesters form a wall around one of their own, and attend to the wounds she suffered in the head while trying to vandalize the building behind them. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
GUADALAJARA, JAL – March 8, 2023: Women gathered on Chapultepec avenue to march against gender violence and for women’s rights in Mexico’s second largest city. Jalisco has one of the highest rates of gender violence in the country, with over 70% of women over 15 reporting at least one incident during their lives. | PHOTO CREDIT: Raul Diego Medina
