THE HEBRA THAT BROKE” The untold story in the collective memory of Chi Metztli women through their embroidery in Arroyo Cumiapa San Luis Acatlán Guerrero

Violence against women has its roots in culture and in the way it is socially structured, where the exclusion of women is evident through unequal opportunities and the sexual division of labor. Although it is true that the different ways of being a woman in the indigenous world are shaped by the particular gender constructions of the peoples to which they belong, it is important to identify the influence that globalization imposes on them in this context, since it has brought about “the feminization of poverty”. Immersed in this multi-violence, they have endured in silence the crises of a world that has excluded them and then forgotten them. Their art, based on stitches and colors, has changed after the onslaught of the pandemic, natural, economic and cultural crises that are shaking the world; the production of their textile arts has taken a back seat in this technological and rapacious era. Their embroidered stories, their ancestral materials no longer make sense to the new generations, and if that were not enough, on top of all this, the powers that be have invaded their territories, their plots of land, effectively silencing their voices when it comes to embroidery. Because there are stories that they simply do not wish to remember. Their commissioned work tells an imaginary story that is told to them and imposed on them by someone else, totally alien to their cosmogony and locality.