Colectiva Feminista Gordas sin Chaqueta, Colombia

Colectiva Feminista Gordas sin Chaqueta is a feminist social organization that seeks to contribute to the cultural transformation of the violence that is exercised on the bodies of women, as well as stereotypes that reproduce inequality in the context of patriarchy. By 2020, the organization aims to be recognized at local, national and international level for contributing to transforming stereotypes that reproduce violence in the larger patriarchal system.

Internally, the group believes that the greatest success they have had has been to be able to create a space of affection to heal the wounds left by ‘machismo’ (male violence) in women’s lives. Externally, they believe it has been very important to be able to mobilize spaces for meeting, reflection and collective construction of healing and resistance tools among women from the city of Bogotá. They also consider the impact created on others’ lives through what they have produced–documentaries, photo museums, workshops, songs, agendas, texts, among others– as aa significant achievement.