María Galindo is co-founder of Mujeres Creando (www.mujerescreando.org), an anarchist-feminist group created in 1992 in La Paz, Bolivia, that performs creative actions on the streets, produces videos, has its own newspaper and publishes books of poetry, feminist theory and sexuality, among other things. Mujeres Creando started as a collaboration between Maria Galindo, Julieta Paredes, and Mónica Mendoza.  It is comprised of women of different cultural, social, and ethereal origins, and approaches creativity as an instrument of resistance and social participation. The group, which considers itself a political and artistic 'movement' broke with all established power players--the leftist progressives, the Church, and the NGOs who they considered handmaidens of neoliberalism.  Self-exiled in this manner, they took their interventions to the streets where graffiti and activist interventions became their preferred mode of work.  The group split into Mujeres Creando (directed by Maria Galindo)and Comunidad Mujeres Creando Comunidad (organized by Julierta Paredes) in the 2000s.

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