Abstract
“Revolución Puta” is a filmic essay premiered in 2023 in La Paz, Bolivia, by anarcho-feminist creator and activist María Galindo (Mujeres Creando). It is the result of twenty years of collaboration with sex workers’ struggles for the right to carry out their work autonomously and free from pimping.
A political-filmic manifesto starring members of the organizations OMESPRO La Paz and OMESPRO Santa Cruz, the film centers the voices of sex workers speaking in the first person to make visible their subordinated realities within Bolivia’s social, economic, and political context—thus dissolving the traditional notion of authorship.
The film is structured into four distinct parts: “The Knowledge of the Whore,” “The Whore and Work,” “The Whore and the State,” and “Testament.” These four bodies form an audiovisual piece with the power to invade all kinds of spaces—except virtual ones—because, as María Galindo states, they have produced a visual poetics that cannot be swallowed by social media.
The work weaves together collective knowledge while mapping, from the street, the social double standard by which sex work is judged. From the performative bodies of the workers emerges an aesthetic that channels powerlessness into provocative enactments and interventions—sometimes laced with humor, other times with rawness and honesty. This is a proposal created to engage with social imaginaries and perhaps set in motion the transformations this sector demands.
“You cannot decolonize without also dismantling patriarchy.”
Citation
Galindo, María. 2023. 'Revolución Puta [Whore Revolution]'. Dispossessions in the Americas. https://staging.dia.upenn.edu/en/art/AMEX012/

