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Date: 

Mar 27 2021

Location: 

Quintana Roo, Mexico

Siempre Unidas is a feminist collective in the state of Quintana Roo (Mexico) that works partly through street art. In 2021, in response to the femicide of Victoria Salazar – a refugee from El Salvador who died in police custody – the collective began an anti-femicide mural project called RestaurAmoras. In the words of Tallulah Lines, a member of the collective: ‘We have painted beautiful face after beautiful face of women killed by men; killed by boyfriends and ex-boyfriends mostly, but also by other men in their lives’. The project aims to provide symbolic reparation for the families of murdered girls and women: to honour and remember them, communicate support to their families, and to make GBV a more visible public issue. The collective always involves the families of victims, by seeking their permission and inviting them to be there during the painting and unveiling.

External sources: 

https://linestallulah.wordpress.com/femicide-murals/
https://www.facebook.com/siempreunidasPlaya?locale=es_LA
Posted by Yuruo on Feb 23 2025

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
provide symbolic reparation for the families of murdered girls and women: to honour and remember them, communicate support to their families
This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
To make GBV a more visible public issue.

Notes

The project aims to provide symbolic reparation for the families of murdered girls and women: to honour and remember them, communicate support to their families, and to make GBV a more visible public issue.