I attended the Anarchist meeting last week on the quad and learned one of my favorite makeup lines, MAC, had come out with a line for Fall dedicated to Juarez, Mexico. Instead of calling attention to the horror of living in a Mexican border town it decided to, quoting Jezebel blog on Salon.com, "aestheticize real violence."
Women are being raped and murdered in these border towns, often in the very maquiladoras they work. As a rape and domestic violence survivor myself how can I in good conscience wear something that makes me look beautiful knowing the veneer on my face endorses the same suffering of my Latina sisters, and beyond to encapsulate a horror in Juarez I have no desire to know.
I'm too scared to run down to Tiajuana, Juarez, Hidalgo, or other border towns. I don't know the language. I'm an outsider. I would get shot in a minute. But I'm not too scared to return my MAC makeup from whence it came.
Please, if you have some MAC on your shelves, join me in boycotting further purchases of their makeup.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2010/07/juarez-fashion-label-rodarte-women.html
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