Scriptural feminist narratives of the territories. Ni Una Menos Mendoza in the face of international feminist strikes (2020-2023)

Abstract

On March 8, 2020, the women and feminism movement gathered in the streets of Argentina after carrying out the IV International Feminist Strike. That year the main slogan in the country's marches was “Legal Abortion.” Although social confinement was imminent as a preventive health measure against COVID-19 infections, feminists filled the streets also demanding productive and reproductive work, a living wage and against violence. With the establishment of social, preventive and mandatory isolation as of March 20, new demands began to be heard. The issues of greatest attention had to do with the increase in violence and the increase in reproductive work carried out, primarily, by women and feminized bodies. Here, we propose to recover, through the analysis of the scriptural feminist narratives of the territories, the concerns and demands of the Cuyo women's/feminism movement in the period 2020-2023. This is a situated reading (Haraway, 1995; Harding, 1996) of the documents written by the collective Ni Una Menos Mendoza prepared for the international feminist strikes, covering a period of time that allows us to observe what the concerns and demands were at the time when the pandemic arrived and then, how those demands deepened, displaced or radically transformed according to the new vital conditions. Analyzing the different modulations that these scriptural narratives were acquiring implies a reading policy that allows the thematization of politics within and outside the feminist movement in relation to urgent issues and emerging issues on the agenda starting in 2020.