Feminist Audiovisual Narratives as a Form of Activism

the Agenda between Urgency and New Issues (2020-2023)

Abstract

This work aims to illuminate certain interstices around the feminist narratives that recovered, after the impact of the pandemic, historical problems and the emergence of new themes of the movement's agenda. Specifically, we start from the idea that the image is a form of activism to analyze the textualities of the audiovisual discourses of the call for the 8M marches by the largest feminist collective in the province of Mendoza, made up of more than fifty organizations, Ni Una Menos Mendoza. Based on the assumption that the experience of the pandemic radically transformed the ways in which activisms were expressed in the years after 2020, the proposed analysis responds to concerns centered on the ways in which narrative plots and argumentative threads are presented in the images constructed by NUM Mza. in the period 2020-2023 and in the affects materialized through those communication pieces at that historical moment. It is, then, the reading of the central topics of demand on each occasion and the review of the way in which they were displaced or emerged in the heat of the emergencies (parliamentary discussion for the legalization of abortion, pandemic, debate for extractivism, etc.) complementary problems.