Women Fighting Gender Violence Find Solidarity – and Get Results – Through Twitter
Women Fighting Gender Violence Find Solidarity – and Get Results – Through Twitter
Students at Mexico’s largest university use a virtual campaign to fight real-world sexism, following others in Latin America.
Shortly after Lesvy Berlin Osorio was found strangled to death on the campus of Mexico’s largest university – the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) – the office of the public prosecutor began to denigrate the 22-year-old woman on Twitter. She consumed drugs and alcohol, had dropped out of high school, and lived with her boyfriend, they tweeted.
The violence Berlin suffered is not new: An average of seven women are killed in Mexico a day. Neither was the implication that the victim was to...
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