Across Latin America, the Feminist Movement Is in the Streets
On March 8, 2020, thousands across Latin America participated in an international strike to protest gender-based inequality. The movement has attempted to redefine the politics of strikes by acknowledging the value of reproductive labor.
Thousands of women marched in Buenos Aires at the International Women’s Strike on March 8, 2018. (Matias Jovet / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Two years ago on International Women’s Day, thousands of workers took the streets in major cities across Latin America to protest inequality. The mass mobilization — a product of decades of feminist organizing — focused on broadening what we classify as work and who we consider workers.
For the Jacobin Radio podcast The Dig, Daniel Denvir spoke with Verónica Gago, a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires and author of Feminist International: How to Change Everything, to learn how the movement became so massive and what it means for the majoritarian workforces of Latin America. You can listen to the episode here. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
Daniel Denvir
Argentina was the starting point for the new feminist movement that has become a powerful political force across Latin America over the past half-decade. How did that movement take shape in Argentina and then spread across the region?
Verónica Gago
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