Julieta Zacatenco (she/her)

Country: mexico

  • Sexual rights and freedoms; reproductive justice; surrogacy; decolonization of pleasure; recognition of diversity; full, safe and free access to SRHR for women and gender non-conforming people; collective memory building; collective mobilization; awareness on sexual abuse; bodily autonomy; agency.

  • Julieta is a feminist queer advocate for SRHR. She has been part of academic and political advocacy spaces such as the Center for Research and Gender Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she has collaborated with various United Nations offices, such as ECLAC and IOM. As a member of the Political Coordination Board of the Women's Parliament 2021 of Mexico City Congress, she was part of the group that promoted a legislative reform to include the term "people with capacity to gestate" in the Health Law, to guarantee full and safe access to obstetric care and abortion for people with non-conforming gender identities.

    She currently works in a non-profit feminist organization mobilizing finances, as well as designing and developing incidence processes, along with a large number of national and international organizations and funds, regarding intersectional and transfeminist agenda in Mexico and in Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • During the pandemic, she came out as bisexual, since then she has re-signified her activism as well as her sense of community. She believes in the power of self-acknowledgement and love in the building of massive movements to strive against systemic oppressions towards historically marginalized groups.