Autonomy over our lives, bodies sexualities will only become a reality for all of us with the end of violence against women. Violence against women is structural – it is an inherent feature of the patriarchal and capitalist systems – and is used as a tool of control of the lives, bodies and sexuality of women by individual men, groups of men, patriarchal institutions and States. It is a tool of social disciplining that allows for capitalist expropriation of women’s bodies and time, their labor and reproductive capacities. Violence against women is a subjugation, a conditioning relayed by all social structures.This is the reason why women, regardless of class, ethnic identity, caste or whether they are in the global north or south all women suffer violence. Because they are women. All women are vulnerable to patriarchal violence, but it is women impoverished by the system, racialized women, women from colonized territories, women devastated by war or climatic disasters who as a collective suffer more intensely from trafficking, prostitution, pornography, sexual harassment and other forms of violence that commodify and objectify women's lives and bodies.

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