Anti-colonial feminist justice

interdisciplinary keys to influence the patriarchal law

Abstract

This article seeks to decode the message of impunity on gender violence in the Latin American region, given the reaction that objectifies the law as an intransformable entity and not as a product of historically instituted power relations that remain etched in the bodyland of Latin American women who, in turn, face such relationships from what we call the birth of an anti-colonial feminist justice. Some of its characteristics are configured in various groups of women throughout Latin America, such as those in Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador: (1) the questioning of victimization / social blame on the victims, state revictimization and the precariousness it produces the system; (2) the resignification of equal rights from the autonomous practices of conflict resolution and integral community reparation of the damage but not from the legal power but from the defense of human sensitivity; (3) creation of community healing and personal self-care practices as strategies of self-recognition; (4) Intersectionality as a political horizon of plural and autonomous judicial systems against the prison paradigm of control societies. It seeks to make visible the self-defense strategies that women use in conflict territories - especially based on what has been learned in dictatorships and military regimes, territorial conflicts and crossfire of counterinsurgency and paramilitarism; militarization; dispossession; displacement and genocide perpetrated through sexual violence as a strategy of war on women’s bodies. The state’s own reaction and the social criminalization of feminist struggles demonstrate the necessary politicization of power relations at all levels; it makes clear the internal colonialism and revisits the modernity that updated the patriarchate of the region with a consequent right and neo-conservative capitalism.