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Mujeres Creando
Mujeres Creando are, in their own words, "a group of affection and defects, creativity and proposal." Set up with "the intention to be a transforming movement.. a movement of cultural space, art and social proposals where we paint, we tell stories, we dance them, we cook them, subverting the patriarchal order." They draw from their Andean heritage, from feminism, and anarchism to fight patriarchy, power, the State and militarism. "Along with other Latin American sisters," they have "managed to separate what is the feminism of technocracy from the historically useful struggle against patriarchy."
The group only has 15-20 members, including the only openly lesbian activists in Bolivia. They run a small cultural centre, as well as publishing and agitating. The group is best known for its graffiti, always signed Mujeres Creando (which means "Women Creating". Favourite targets include neo-liberals, smug macho leftists, and mainstream feminists ("gender technocrats")).
A website about them describes them as "the country's only organisation that publicly, consistently and clearly speaks up for the oppressed, no matter who they are."
Reach Mujeres Creando at Casilla 12806, La Paz, Bolivia;
creando@ceibo.entelnet.bo
There is a website about them at:
http://www.americas.org/News/Features/9906_Gay_Rights/bolivias_mujeres_creando.htm