The Butterflies Revolution

Can a feeling be a place? A meeting place? A place of protest, peaceful protest, struggle through art, cultural activism? For a group of women from Cadiz in the south of Spain may be. They have created a socio-cultural movement called The Butterflies Revolution.

Las Mariposas (The Butterflies) was the name in the resistance by which Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal, sisters who fought against the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and by whom the Organization for the United Nations (UN) chose November 25, the date of her assassination, as International Day Against Gender Violence.

Teachers, artists, journalists, housewives, writers, singers, feminists, activists and cultural managers, photographers, etc. Give life and visibility through cultural activities scheduled throughout the year and concluding each November 25 to recognize the rights of women on equal terms to those of men. This is a series of portraits of some of them characterized as Frida Kahlo belonging to one of those activities.

The Butterflies Revolution, it’s a place…