Breathe
By Pamela Cerdeira
I think the story line is like a moving ball, if you zoom out you realize that it is moving forward, but if you look closely, you can see that it is also spinning. The times in front of us are dark and our ball (called humanity) is about to be turned upside down, that's not new, it's been there before. It is those twists and turns that allow us to understand that history is cyclical, therefore, it repeats itself.
What is a dark time? It depends. For me, the destruction of INAI, the recomposition of the Judiciary in an election that is a farce and the concentration of power in a single party is a dark time, but for those whose last name is López or Batres, the same actions surely mean just the opposite.
Now, if we go to a more global description of blackness, without a doubt, the loss of freedom and the weakening of human rights fit perfectly there. The possibility that a person, because of their skin color, sexual orientation or gender identity, is considered "less of a person" is a bad sign, a step backwards. Yes, the ball is moving forward, today no one would justify slavery or deny the right to vote to someone because of their skin color, but the turn places us in a retrograde of something we already thought we had overcome. Here are some of the signs:
Donald Trump and Musk - For Elon Musk, gender identity is a woke virus, the same one that was inoculated into his trans daughter, whom he has never accepted. Not only is it an unresolved personal issue, it is a legal onslaught in which people who do not fit his very short definition of male or female (because there are biological variations that are not being considered) do not exist. They are simply "non-persons". So they are "non-persons" that scientific research papers on their health are being withdrawn because they do not fit the definition of what these two gentlemen mean by human. Therefore, if "non-persons" are a lie, why should we talk about them, research, invest and care for them? We women understand very well what it is to be a "non-person". One only has to read Caroline Criado in Invisible Women to realize that clinical research, vehicle safety measures, cell phone sizes, and even piano keys have historically been designed on the premise that "human beings are men", and therefore, "women" are "non-persons". Things have been moving slowly, but moving forward. There are more women in leadership positions; you can talk without shame in the media about menstruation or menopause without receiving complaints because "yuck"; and acts of violence are already named as such. For my generation, or at least for me, the clotheslines, the Z generation that recognizes machismo a mile away, that has words to name things I learned after 30, represented hope. "They won't have it so hard anymore," I said to myself. I was wrong, it was the view from the top of the ball.
