La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción is a political organization that stems from the legacy of black and decolonial feminism, founded in 2014.
We organize ourselves following and practicing black feminism, since the different forms of oppression that we experience — racism, gender violence, classism, xenophobia and homophobia — are interrelated manifestations of a system that produces inequality.
As a strategy, we aim to denounce the ways in which the State sustains and feeds these systems of oppression.
We do it through political formation, agitation and denunciation, mobilization and direct action, confrontation with the State, the articulation of coalitions and strategic alliances with other sectors, the creation of alternatives through public policy or self-managed forms and the creation of a culture of resistance.
WE ARE ANTI-CAPITALIST
We reject an economic system designed to subsist on the exploitation of Black, Indigenous and Global South people. We oppose a system that prioritizes the enrichment of a few to the detriment of the planet and the beings that inhabit it.
WE ARE ANTI COLONIALISTS AND INTERNATIONALISTS
We believe in the self-determination of the peoples and therefore, in the struggle for the independence of our archipelago from the North American empire.
Long live FREE Puerto Rico !
WE ARE ANTI-RACIST
White supremacy has imposed the idea of who is human through colonization and the racial state. We reclaim the humanity, joy and security that Black people deserve.
WE ARE ANTIPATRIARCHAL
Our bodies are not owned by anyone. We exist for our own desires and wills.
WE ARE A MILITANT ORGANIZATION
We understand the responsibility of each one of us in changing the course of our country and our society. We are collective because we understand that we can only free ourselves from the systems that oppress us if we fight together.
We support a political work that unifies wills and recognize solidarity as the transforming axis of the country. We organize ourselves by putting our bodies to face the austerity measures and public policies that impoverish those of us who live in this country.
We are sustained by the certainty that the fight in the streets is our best bet to ensure that all of us who live in this country have a dignified life. We are moved by the rage of recognizing injustice, but, above all, the radical hope of knowing that we are on our way to liberation.
OUR REFERENCES
For those who were, for those who are,
and for those that will come: Not one step back!
Our fight emanates from the long tradition of radical black feminism. That is our starting point and from there we continue the path that has been laid out. We reclaim our ancestral memory, we name our referents, we thank them for having made a path. We honor their legacy by continuing the fight, marooning the present and sowing the future. We will make of this life one dignified for black women, which will make the world a fair one for all.
Thanks to those who were and still are.
