“La Liga Femenil Mexicanista: The Protofeminism and Radical Organizing of Journalist Jovita Idár,” in From Sit-ins to #revolutions: The Changing Nature of Protests
“The interrelated struggles and campaigns of Jovita Idár bear tremendous relationship to twenty-first-century activist and social movements. Concerns such as police and state violence, so powerfully resisted by Black Lives Matter; the questions of US-Mexico border militarization and the rights of the undocumented; the insistence on community land commons seen in Indigenous counteractions against the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines; global anti-war campaigns; insistence on educational equity and access for marginalized people; and the continuing concerns of feminist campaigns were all central to Idár’s organizing efforts - long before women had the right to vote”…