On an empty plinth surrounded by protective fences, they installed a wooden antimonumenta, a guerrilla sculpture that calls for justice for the recurrent acts of violence against women in Mexico.

Anti-monument We Want Us Alive), subsequently known as Justicia, and depicts a purple woman holding her left arm raised and the word justice carved into a support on the back.

Since its placement, feminists have organized cultural events at the roundabout to honor all the women who they describe as fighters and men who fight for them and have had their names memorialized on the protective fences, installed a clothesline to denounce the injustices that they have experienced from authorities and society, and replaced the original woodwork with a steel one.

Sheinbaum, on the other hand, had commented that the government of the city wanted to officially replace the Monument to Columbus with a replica of The Young Woman of Amajac, a Huastec sculpture, and thus relocate the Vivas Nos Queremos anti-monument elsewhere, an action to which feminists were opposed unless their demands were met.

Following months of discussion, in February 2023, Sheinbaum declared that both Justicia and The Young Woman of Amajac would coexist in the same traffic circle, while the Columbus sculpture would be relocated to the National Museum of the Viceroyalty, in Tepotzotlán, State of Mexico.

[9] Tlalli sparked several controversies, including the selection of Reyes, a mestizo male, to represent Mexican indigenous women,[3][10] or its design and name, which were questioned by academics like researcher Lucía Melgar and Mixe writer Yásnaya Aguilar [es].

[3] On the afternoon of 25 September 2021, a group of feminists crossed the protective fences surrounding the monument and installed on the empty plinth a wooden[1] antimonumenta depicting a 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) tall purple woman with her left fist raised.

[11]: 118  The installers referred to the sculpture as the Antimonumenta Vivas Nos Queremos (Anti-monument We Want Us Alive),[13] Justicia (Justice),[14] or La Muchacha (The Girl)[11]: 116  and symbolically renamed the traffic circle as the Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan (Roundabout of Women Who Fight).

[15] Feminists during the installation requested the formation of an artistic committee with indigenous female members to choose a replacement by consensus and added that they did not want to impose their choice of a statue, saying, "You decide the figure, we have renamed the roundabout".

[24] The next day, male police officers broke the clotheslines and attempted to remove the protective fences bearing the written names; when they noticed that groups of women were filming them, they repositioned them.

[1] Also, the Garden of Memory (Jardín de la Memoria) was set up, featuring another clothesline with 300 complaints and whose intention is "bearing the names of historical women [...] who teach us every day with their struggles that dignity has to be customary".

[35]: 3:54–4:40 [36] Following months of discussion, in February 2023, Sheinbaum announced that both Justicia and The Young Woman of Amajac would coexist in the traffic circle, while the Columbus sculpture would be relocated to the National Museum of the Viceroyalty, in Tepotzotlán, State of Mexico.

[40] Author Sabrina Melenotte noted that the installation roughly "links art, memory and public space" and raises questions on "the role and the legitimate place of artistic and social expressions that serve as monuments".

[43] Diana Murrieta, founder of the feminist group Nosotras Para Ellas, wrote in an opinion column in the El Heraldo de México newspaper that the appropriation of public spaces is important to let the women of the country know that equality is achievable as long as actions are performed collectively.

[45] In her column for Voces México, art critic Avelina Lésper commented negatively on the artwork and its installation, saying that such actions harm feminism, which society calls unjustified, radical and violent, and asked feminists not to speak for all women because she interprets the appropriation as an act of "ideological, populist arrogance, supported by the propaganda of [social] networks".

[46] Regarding comments on the government and its position on the anti-monument, Fausta Gantús from the Instituto Mora [es] opined that Sheinbaum avoids recognizing the Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan and instead supports an "officialist feminism", endorsed by the female governors from her political party, the National Regeneration Movement.

[47] Scholar Lucía Melgar commented that if Sheinbaum would stop "wallowing in imaginary achievements, repeating empty speeches, and inventing a courtly 'people'" she could learn to respect the space that feminists chose to protest against violence.