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In an act that recovers the ancestral relationship of women with threads, weaving and collaboration networks, the Colectiva Hilos Chile has displayed cloths woven by hundreds of female hands in public spaces in an act of denunciation and resistance against femicides. and violence against women.
On the eve of 8M, on Tuesday, weavers and activists attached to the collective walked along the Alameda towards the London 38 Memory site carrying an immense cloth, made for months in various days that took place in parks and other public spaces.
In front of London 38 they unfolded the fabrics that covered the front of the building, like a large bloodstain, and remained silent, seated, with the cloth they wore on their heads, after which they pronounced the names of the detainees and disappeared who passed for the place in dictatorship.
This Wednesday (8M) the collective unfolded the cloths and woven in the central square of the GAM, generating an area of convening and open dialogue, to which many wanted to join.
The activities, promoted by the Memory and Human Rights Program of the Alberto Hurtado University, are part of a larger event, called “Blood of my blood.” It is an action and a movement gestated in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2018, a country where femicide reaches, as is known, exorbitant figures. In Chile, #memoriayddhh_uah, #colectivahilos, #cesteraslasperdices and #generouah join this movement.
The action in Mexico and Chile entrusts its potential to the practice of manual weaving, made with the fingers, whose delicate and careful materiality contrasts with the brutality of the violations in the political, public and private space suffered by women in the world, whose memory is restored in this action.
In the preparations for marches and displays, the women talk, sit on the ground, laugh, and show each other the point that forms the network. The fabric gives space to an affectivity that could not flow through the discursive logics of traditional political articulation.
We are more, 1985. Documentary record of Leopoldo Correa Poblete. Museum of Memory and Human Rights
It is interesting to put these actions into perspective, relating them to those undertaken by hundreds of women who sought to create meetings and spaces of resistance during the dictatorship. In particular, it seems pertinent to link them with the march that the Women for Life movement carried out on October 30, 1985. On that occasion, members of different collectives and political groups united, putting aside their particular slogans, to protest against the dictatorship. under the motto “We are More”.
A woman who participated this March 7 in the silent walk to London 38 recalled that on that occasion they, her companions, came to the center of Santiago from various places, united by colored ribbons.
by AMRisco
At that time, the tape was a symbol of their union and their commitment to the search for justice and the common good. Today that tape is a network, which grows and strengthens.
