This poster is part of the exhibition "Women's Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-Based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination" at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from January 17 - May 17, 2025

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, WorkShop Gallery

In Mexico, sociocultural practices such as machismo, characterized by male power and aggression, are widespread. Machismo, motivated by misogyny and sexism, promotes the superiority of men over women, triggering acts of extreme violence against women simply because they are women.

Since the early 1990s, more than 700 violent deaths of women and girls have been reported in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. After years of official apathy and police incompetence towards solving and ending these brutal murders, a group of graphic designers from Mexico City invited colleagues to express their concern and outrage by designing posters around the slogan The Women of Juárez Demand Justice! / ¡Las Muertas de Juárez Demandan Justicia! Sixty posters (including this one) traveled throughout Mexico, educating about the murders and forcing the authorities to become involved.