Youth, feminist activism and gender-based violence at UNAM: Genealogy of a conflict

Abstract

In the last few years, gender-based violence has been positioned on the Mexican public agenda. This article analyses the onlife feminist activism carried out by student groups from UNAM's Faculty of Sciences and Humanities between 2018 and 2020. It involves a thematic analysis of Facebook pages, student and university authority communications, media reports and participant observations. The results of the study identified three types of action: the creation of profiles on social networks, the creation of reporting mechanisms and the holding of strikes on campus. The author concludes that within the framework of the change in the emotional configuration of inter-gender relations, gender-based violence against women takes on a dominant visibility and becomes a focus of conflict within educational institutions.