{"id":46229,"date":"2015-03-03T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T10:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=46229"},"modified":"2015-03-03T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T13:01:19","slug":"sad-girls-y-que","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/03\/03\/sad-girls-y-que\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad Girls y Qu\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"
Glittering, internet feminist group, Sad Girls y Qu\u00e9,\u00a0are taking down Mexico\u2019s \u201cbullshit macho culture\u201d one kitten meme at a time.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n A windswept, twinkly-eyed Sailor Moon, the numbers 666 and a line from a Drake song superimposed onto a pink Mexican banknote. It can only be the work of Sad Girls y Qu\u00e9, a glittering, internet feminist group who are taking down Mexico\u2019s \u201cbullshit macho culture\u201d one kitten meme at a time.<\/p>\n Their home is the culturally fizzing border of Tijuana \u2013 where the US and Latin America meet \u2013 which is crossed by millions of people a year. In their own words, \u201cWe are women, and in this country that makes us second- class citizens. You walk out into the street and you can feel the violence.\u201d The statistics agree: in Mexico, six women are murdered every day. Most of them are violent crimes that include rape, and bodies are dumped in rivers or dumpsters and usually never seen again.<\/p>\n Sad Girls y Qu\u00e9 is comprised of 25-year- old Anna Bon, a Catholic school drop-out\u00a0and Sailor Moon fangirl; 25-year-old \u201chustler\u201d, college dropout and fashion designer, Pau Lia; Maite Soleno, also 25, who would \u201crelinquish two kidneys for PJ Harvey\u201d; 26-year-old Ana Laura Camarena who \u201calways dreamed of being Lisa Simpson\u201d; and 23 year-old Ariana Bon-Hodoy\u00e1n, who, when not at university studying for a degree in anthropology, is mostly busy \u201cplotting to take down the institutionalised forces that guide the patriarchal society we live in.\u201d They take\u00a0their name \u2013 and a healthy dose of their attitude \u2013 from the 1994 film, Mi Vida Loca, about a bad-ass gang of Chicanas living in LA\u2019s notorious Echo Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n Speaking from our respective twenty- something-girl bedrooms on Google Hangout (dress code: dressing gowns), the girls explain how their feminist girl-gang came into being. \u201cI mean, we never set out with an agenda,\u201d says Bon. \u201cOriginally our Facebook page was just a place where we could vent. It\u2019s our normal daily conversations just posted online in the form of memes. It meant we could post sex- positive and heartbreak stuff anonymously.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Their surroundings and social spheres are mostly conservative with a big \u201cC\u201d, so posting about anything taboo (sex, periods) is risky. \u201cIt\u2019s great though,\u201d Lia says, \u201cbecause we can just be any girl. You can put whatever face you want on us. It\u2019s stuff most of the girls of our generation are thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n They are united in their brand of non-white feminism too (\u201ccommon sense feminism\u201d, they call it), which came from a \u201cthis doesn\u2019t really include us\u201d moment at school. \u201cWhite feminism felt very imperialist in its views. It\u2019s Eat Pray Love feminism, like, \u2018We\u2019re giving you all this pop culture, now swallow it.\u2019\u201d It\u2019s like Vogue saying that Iggy Azalea is bringing the booty back. Sad Girls y Qu\u00e9 casually quote bell hooks and Audre Lorde (they educated themselves by searching for academic PDFs online and downloading them), but they still cite Britney when she shaved her head in 2007 as their ultimate \u201cbabe\u201d.<\/p>\n