Mujeres Creando

It seems like a lot of what we have been doing in Bolivia so far is meeting with radical activists and left-leaning groups. Yesterday we visited a group that tops the list: Mujeres Creando (trans: Women Creating).

Mujeres Creando is a radical, anarchist, feminist group (their words, not mine). Usually I am a bit put off by radical feminists, but the fact that this subset of women actually exist in strongly patriarchal Bolivia is pretty cool, if you ask me. My first empression of the group was walking into their building and seeing a traditional Cholita, dressed in a bright peasant skirt and wearing the standard felt bowler hat, sitting at a table next to a Bolivian woman with mohawk hair and sucking on a cigarette. The walls behind these women were painted with the cursive graffitti that Mujeres Creando spreads throughout the city. Some of my favorites are:
"Long live the fat girls and the whores"
"Every penis is a small penis" and
"You want me to be a virgin, you want me to be saint, you piss me off"

My second impression of the group came from a video of demonstration that they performed. It involved four naked men with colorfully painted penises being measured by the president of an organization for prostitutes in Chile.

Obviously, the whole afternoon with Mujeres Creando was interesting and super different from anything else Ive seen in Bolivia. Im still undecided on my overall opinion of the group, but Ill let you know when I figure it out!