María Galindo

[4] For her controversial actions (often labeled as performance art or street theater), she was arrested and assaulted several times by Bolivian police even though her older brother, José Antonio Galindo Neder, was a minister under former president Carlos Mesa.

[2] On 2019, Paul B. Preciado wrote about her "Over the past 15 years, Galindo has created a radical artistic practice: an artist, performer, activist, writer and cofounder of the Bolivian collective Mujeres Creando, she brings the subaltern practices and knowledge of indigenous women into dialogue with the political and literary traditions of anarchism, punk and nonwhite feminism.

But what can art do in the face of an authoritarian neocolonialism in which the logics of feminism and indigenous identity politics have been absorbed within humanist, religious and neoliberal discourse as new strategies of control?

Galindo answers by dislocating art from the spaces of the market and the gallery and bringing it right back to the place where it was born: the public square, the social ritual.

Mujeres Creando’s public actions such as Pasarela Feminista (Feminist Catwalk), staged in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in 2014, sought to confront the white and heterosexual idealized feminine body, an image perpetuated by mainstream media, via a 13-hour ‘rebellion’ by women in the city's streets in which they gave speeches while walking a makeshift catwalk in outfits that they felt both reclaimed and represented their own bodies and experiences as indigenous women.