[eng] Colectivo LASTESIS. Daffne Valdés Vargas, Paula Cometa Stange, Lea Cáceres Díaz, Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem - A Rapist in Your Path

The patriarchy is a judge, who judges us for being born and our punishment is the violence you do not see

The patriarchy is a judge, who judges us for being born and our punishment is the violence you can see

It is femicide, impunity for my murderer

It is disappearance, it is rape

And the fault was not mine, nor where I was, nor how I was dressed

And the fault was not mine, nor where I was, nor how I was dressed

And the fault was not mine, nor where I was, nor how I was dressed

And the fault was not mine, nor where I was, nor how I was dressed

You were the rapist

You are the rapist

The police, the judges

The state, the president

The oppressor state is a macho rapist

The oppressor state is a macho rapist

You were the rapist

You are the rapist

Sleep peacefully, innocent girl, without worrying about the bandit

Over your dreams smiling and sweet, watches your loving policeman

You were the rapist

You were the rapist

You are the rapist

You are the rapist.

* LASTESIS is composed by Daffne Valdés Vargas, Paula Cometa Stange, Lea Cáceres Díaz and Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem. Artistic, interdisciplinary and feminist women's collective from Valparaíso, Chile. It is dedicated to disseminate feminist theory from performance through an interdisciplinary language that combines performing arts, sound, graphic and textile design, history and social sciences. The street intervention "A rapist in your path" was replicated in more than fifty countries.

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[1] Translated from the Spanish by Andrea Balart.

© Estefanía Henríquez Cubillos.

Original photographies © María Luisa Espinoza © Celeste Laila D'Aleo © Francisca Campero.

Image postproduction: Andrea Balart.