María Galindo's Radical Anarcha-Feminist Practice Confronts Colonial and Patriarchal Symbols

In 1992, María Galindo, an anarcha-feminist artist and activist from Bolivia, established the collective Mujeres Creando in La Paz to address sexism and discrimination against the LGBT community through street performances. Over the span of 15 years, she has cultivated a radical artistic approach that intertwines indigenous women's wisdom with anarchism and nonwhite feminism. Her 2014 public initiative, Pasarela Feminista, held in Santa Cruz, showcased women reclaiming their indigenous identities while challenging media-driven beauty standards. Galindo employs theatrical elements from Catholicism and patriarchy, along with repurposed objects, as symbols for a poetic revolution. She resonates with art-shamans like Pedro Lemebel. Additionally, Paul B. Preciado, a writer and curator, is currently a writer-in-residence at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, where his book Pornotopia was published in 2014.