The Feminization of Resistance: The Narratives of #NiUnaMenos as Social Transformative Action

Maria Clara Medina analyzes narratives from three founders of Argentina’s Ni Una Menos movement. Rather than defining “feminization” as simply more women joining protest, she identifies a political reorientation: resistance organized around sustaining livable life, collective protection, relational power, and the transformation of everyday subjectivities.

The article links gendered violence to neoliberal precarity. Inadequate public services, insecure labor, colonial hierarchy, and patriarchal authority do not form separate agendas; they determine whose life is exposed and who is expected to absorb crisis through unpaid care and private endurance. Ni Una Menos becomes a plural platform through which violence, abortion, class, and non-heteronormative identities can be articulated together.

A small set of founder narratives cannot represent the movement’s full geographic and political diversity, and the language of feminized ethics should not imply that women are naturally collaborative or nonviolent. The study is most persuasive when read as an account of political practice rather than feminine essence. It helps explain why the movement’s influence exceeds any single policy demand: it builds solidarity by contesting the social organization of vulnerability itself.