Antimonumenta

The erection of an antimonumenta symbolizes the demand for justice for women who suffer from violence in the country.

• Name — Antimonumenta • Location — Guadalajara, Mexico • Designer — Feminists • Type — Antimonumenta • Material — Metal • Open — 2020 11 25 • Dedicated To — Victims of violence against women in Mexico

• Illustration — Plaza de Armas in 2021. The Antimonumenta (below) is opposite to the State Government Palace of Jalisco The Antimonumenta was installed on 25 November 2020 in the Plaza de Armas, in the historic center of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It was placed during the annual march of women protesting against gender violence on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It occurred amid the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico in which 230 women were killed between January and September of that year and 39 of them were investigated as femicides. During the installation, Enrique Ibarra Pedroza, Secretary General of the State Government, tried to negotiate the site where the Antimonumenta would be placed but only received complaints that he should have attended to them when they requested meetings to talk to him. Although similar in shape, the antimonumentas installed across the country have different inscriptions. The installers also symbolically renamed Plaza de Armas to "Plaza Imelda Virgen". Imelda Josefina Virgen Rodríguez was an academic and the first woman to be killed after the approval of femicide as a crime in Jalisco. According to the prosecutors, in September 2012 her husband hired two others to rape and kill her. Her husband was charged with parricide and the others with first-degree murder; none were charged with femicide. In 2017 her husband received a sentence that was appealed and the trial had to be re-tried. By November 2020, the second trial was appealed and was awaiting a new trial. On 8 March 2021, the date commemorating International Women's Day and during the annual march, multiple women performed a song titled "Canción sin miedo" next to the Antimonumenta.

• Name — Antimonumenta (Banca Roja) • Location — Guadalajara, Mexico • Designer — Feminists • Type — Antimonumenta • Material — Metal • Open — 2020 11 25 • Dedicated To — Victims of violence against women in Mexico On the same date, but in front of the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres, located a few blocks away from Plaza de Armas, it was installed a red bench which was also symbolically named Antimonumenta, but referred to as "Banca Roja" to distinguish it from the other anti-monument. As part of a global campaign, red benches are installed to denounce gender violence as they symbolize those who were and those who will come. In 2019, a bench was installed at the University of Guadalajara. The 25 November red bench was placed in front of the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres. In the middle of it there is a plaque with a message that reads "In memory of all the women murdered by those who claimed to love them or just because they were women."