Abstract

Feminists movements in Chile have undertaken unprecedented strength since 2018. The amount of people participating in the movement and in social protests together with the increased visibility and leadership of Indigenous and racialized women and LGBTQ+ collectives have had an enormous impact within feminist movements and in the public space. Structural, institutional and every-day violences, have been made visible as a public matter through diverse creative and artistic mediums. Domestic and sexual violence, femicide, political violence, limited abortion rights, sexist educational system, exotization of Indigenous women and sexualization of Black bodies together with the continuous undervalue of domestic and care work are some of the issues denounced by women and feminist struggles. Considering this plural character of feminist movements, this chapter, argues for a decolonial intersectional perspective that takes into account its heterogeneity, its internal tensions as well as its capacity to articulate with other social struggles in neoliberal Chile. The main argument is that both its internal debates (regarding the notions of “women” and differences) and its external articulations with other social movements (such as the student revolutions, the Indigenous struggles against State violence and the social uprising of October 2019), mark a new scenario for the Chilean feminist movements. One that while it is in dialogue with past feminist struggles, it is open to the intensification of its critical capacity.