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Lesvy Berlín: Femicide Comes to UNAM

Students, workers and teachers of UNAM mobilized Friday, May 5, to demand justice for Lesvy Berlín Osorio, as well as to call for an end to machista violence and femicides in Mexico.

Lesvy’slifeless body was found outside the campus’s engineering department this past Wednesday. Due to the violent nature of her death, many have called it a femicide - or the systematic, targeted murder of women.

Authorities, however, soon took to Twitter to discredit her by suggesting she was a drinker and drug user, was living out of wedlock with her boyfriend and had dropped out of school.

Thebacklash was immediate. Women soon began using the hashtag #SiMeMatan (IfTheyKillMe) to denounce the criminalization of women who have been victims of machista abuse and femicides.

Lesvy was a daughter, friend, musician, and student. She was 22-years-old.

Editor’s note: On a day in which the Mexican woman is venerated, it is important that we as a community continue working to dismantle machismo culture. In particular, as men, we can no longer tolerate machismo within our families, our relationships or within ourselves.

¡Mata el machismo!

Image and photos and by: Rexiste, Acción Fotográfica, Desinformémonos