In alliance with INTERNATIONAL AMNISTY MEXICO
There are things that are very difficult to talk about. It is very hard to live in a violent and abusive relationship, whether physical or emotional. Perhaps the hardest thing is the feeling of loneliness, isolation, abandonment and disconnection, which makes one unable to get out of there out of sheer fear. Losing the referents of what is right and what is wrong, feeling that you are stuck in a hole and not finding where to hold on to get out, having to hit rock bottom to seek help.
I wish we were educated to love ourselves enough and not allow this to happen to us, to know that we are not alone and to seek help in time.
Gender violence is a monster with many arms and many heads that feeds on our silences, on the spaces that grow between one life and another, between one story and another.
This is why it is important to speak, do, show. We have to break the ties of that silence that corners so many lives, the lives that we all deserve to live fully, free and without fear.
This piece is part of the collective exhibition VIVAN LAS MUJERES, a project of International Amnesty Mexico and Vertigo Gallery at the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico.
Thanks to the wonderful Martina Camargo and Chaco World Music for letting me use the song "Me Robaste el Sueño" for this video.
Thanks to Clarisa Moura for inviting me to participate.
