Featured Changemaker

Cecilia Palmeiro

Argentina

Cecilia Palmeiro (she/her) is one of the founders of the transformative Latin American feminist movement Ni Una Menos, or “Not One Woman Less,” which organizes to end femicide and gender-based violence. The Ni Una Menos collective has been supported by Global Fund for Women since 2017. She is also a writer, literary critic, performer, feminist activist, and queer feminist theorist.

Cecilia's movement work in Argentina has rippled across the world and she is an example of an academic who engages theory and action in equal measure. That's why we interviewed her for the Changemaker series.

group of activists at a protest, people in the foreground hold up a large pink sign that reads "NI UNA MENOS VIVAS Y LIBRES NOS QUEREMOS"
group of activists at a protest, people in the foreground hold up a large pink sign that reads "NI UNA MENOS VIVAS Y LIBRES NOS QUEREMOS"

In her words

I have always sought beauty in the world, in the sense of non-violence, harmony, peace, and happiness for all living beings. I have participated in various movements: the student movement in the nineties, the queer movement in the two thousands, and the Ni Una Menos feminist movement since 2015. My academic work has always been nourished by these experiences, focusing on the relationship between art and politics.
Cecilia Palmeiro

Writer, cultural critic, and feminist activist. Co-founder of the Ni Una Menos movement

Since the emergence of the Ni Una Menos movement, a historical and political collective power has been consolidated, which we call the Feminist Tide. It acts at a global level, crossing borders, languages, and cultures. This political force...is producing deep, timely social transformations.
Cecilia Palmeiro

Writer, cultural critic, and feminist activist. Co-founder of the Ni Una Menos movement

This liberation of the artistic imagination...in cooperation to serve political transformation is what I call the feminist avant-garde, and it is an engine of change, a tidal wave.
Cecilia Palmeiro

Writer, cultural critic, and feminist activist. Co-founder of the Ni Una Menos movement

Extractive violence against all bodies with reproductive capacity obeys the same matrix: the colonial-capitalist-patriarchal regime that is destroying the world, a regime installed in our unconscious and in the state structures to produce. To push back against all of it, we need a feminist ethic of care.
Cecilia Palmeiro

Writer, cultural critic, and feminist activist. Co-founder of the Ni Una Menos movement

Feminism means...

“Feminism is connecting with the struggles of other women. It is having each other’s back. It is a vision of the world. It is an ethic of life. Feminism is revolution!” - Cecilia Palmeiro