Rapper sparks self-defense 'bonfire' amid Mexico's record-high levels of gender violence

[Judi Lynn]

After years of authorities neglecting, refusing and being too inept to bring down Mexico’s extreme rates of gender violence, one group of women is taking their personal safety into their own hands, and teaching others to do the same.

CODY COPELAND / December 3, 2022

MEXICO CITY (CN) — An average of 11 women are murdered each day in Mexico, according to the National Citizens Observatory of Femicide.

Rapper Dayra Fyah did not want her teenage daughter to grow up in that context without possessing the tools she needs to survive something as simple as coming home from school. They live in Ecatepec, México state, one of the most violent municipalities in the country.

In 2016, Fyah began to look for self-defense classes, but was only able to find martial arts schools catering primarily to men. So she decided to do it herself. Already accustomed to organizing rap workshops, she began to give courses in female empowerment and self-defense.

After her music and activism were featured in a 2018 AJ+ report, practitioners of Empowerment Self-Defense (ESD) in the United States invited her to learn the discipline. She went to a training in Costa Rica in 2019 and is now bringing what she learned to Mexico.

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1. Love what she is doing

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