"A rapist in your way" - Powerful feminist intervention during the Chilean protests in Santiago
"A rapist in your way" - Powerful feminist intervention during the Chilean protests in Santiago
On Monday, Nov 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, feminist collective Lastesis from Valparaiso took the streets in the center of Santiago de Chile and showed a stunning performance in front of the Ministry of Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
The powerful statement against sexual assault of women by men can be seen as an allegory of the accusation of the suppressive Chilean state, whose police and military forces have killed, tortured and violated numerous protesters as well as innocent bystanders during the biggest civil protests since the end of the military dictatorship in 1989.
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FULL TEXT IN SPANISH
El patriarcado es un juez
que nos juzga por nacer
y nuestro castigo
es la violencia que ya ves.
Es femicidio.
Impunidad para mi asesino.
Es la desaparición.
Es la violación.
¡Y la culpa no era mía, ni donde estaba ni como vestia!
¡Y la culpa no era mía, ni donde estaba ni como vestia!
¡Y la culpa no era mía, ni donde estaba ni como vestia!
¡Y la culpa no era mía, ni donde estaba ni como vestia!
¡El violador eres tú!
¡El violador eres tú!
¡Son los pacos!
¡Los jueces!
¡El estado!
¡El presidente!
¡El estado opresor es un macho violador!
¡El estado opresor es un macho violador!
¡El violador eres tú!
¡El violador eres tú!
Duerme tranquila, niña inocente
sin preocuparte del bandolero.
Que por tu sueño dulce y sonriente
vela tu amante Carabinero.
¡El violador eres tú!
¡El violador eres tú!
¡El violador eres tú!
FULL TEXT IN ENGLISH
The patriarchy is a judge
who judges us by birth
and our punishment
is the violence you can see.
It is femicide.
Impunity for my killer.
It is disappearance.
It is rape.
And it was not my fault, not the place where I was nor the dress that I chose!
And it was not my fault, not the place where I was nor the dress that I chose!
And it was not my fault, not the place where I was nor the dress that I chose!
The rapist are you!
The rapist are you!
It’s the cops!
The judges!
The state!
The president!
The oppressive state is a male rapist!
The oppressive state is a male rapist!
Sleep well, innocent girl.
You don’t have to worry about the bandit
Your sweet and smiling dreams
are taken care of by your Carabinero* lover.
The rapist are you!
The rapist are you!
The rapist are you!
*Carabineros = Official name of the Chilean police, derives from the word carabine, a long gun firearm.