Cross Border Feminists write:
“We will not go back to normality, because normality was the problem: the global feminist and trans-feminist movement, confronted with this new global health, economic, food, and ecological crisis, will not surrender to isolation and will not silence its struggles in the face of the restrictive measures undertaken in our territories to deal with the coronavirus. All over the world, women and LGBTQI* people are refusing to submit to the multiple forms of violence that are exacerbated by the global pandemic and are beginning to organize by intertwining our rebellious practices, empowered by the strength of the recent years of global feminist strikes.
This crisis reveals and intensifies the violence, the hierarchies, and the structural roots of oppression, exploitation, and inequality of the colonial capitalist patriarchy, against which we have always fought and will continue to fight. It is precisely in the tensions and fissures opened up by this crisis that the new forms of resistance and solidarity to which we belong are emerging. Those are forms of resistance that we want to join and want to make resonate at the global level through our collective voice, so that we can emerge together from isolation and undermine dominant paradigms by affirming feminist, trans-feminist and anti-patriarchal knowledge and practices.”
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