About Feminacida

Feminacida

Feminacida is a Buenos Aires digital-native feminist news outlet and self-managed collective that has covered daily reality from a feminist, popular, federal and human-rights perspective since its launch on 8 March 2018. It reports on gender violence, reproductive rights, politics and culture, producing journalistic and educational material that seeks alternative, respectful approaches free of violence. Beyond its news portal, the collective runs a training school, offers gender-perspective consultancy, produces audiovisual work and podcasts, and develops communication campaigns, all aimed at promoting gender equality and giving voice to the struggles of the women's and dissidence movement in Latin America.

The name itself is a statement: Feminacida fuses the words for feminist and for the ending associated with killing, turning the language of femicide back on the system that produces it and signalling a medium that confronts gender violence rather than merely reporting it. That confrontational tenderness, angry about violence and careful in how victims are treated, runs through the outlet's editorial identity.

Founded on 8 March 2018

Feminacida began on 8 March 2018, International Women's Day, in the middle of Argentina's feminist surge: the Ni Una Menos movement against gender violence was in its third year, the campaign for legal abortion was filling the streets with the green wave, and feminist journalists were building media of their own. The choice of launch date placed the new outlet deliberately inside that calendar of mobilisation, and its coverage has followed the movement's rhythm of marches, strikes, trials and legislative campaigns ever since.

The project was constituted as a self-managed collective rather than a commercial company, and directories of independent digital media list it among Argentina's independent feminist outlets. Its structure reflects that origin: a medium and collective committed to an inclusive and respectful outlook in communication, in its own description, with its own reporters and photographers producing original journalism rather than rewriting agency copy.

Editorial perspective

Feminacida describes its approach as intersectional feminism applied to daily news: it produces content every day that informs, analyses and makes visible social, cultural and political problems from that perspective. Its self-definition adds the adjectives popular and federal to feminist and human-rights based, which marks a deliberate breadth: the outlet aims to write about gender for a general public, in accessible language, and to cover the whole country rather than only the capital's agenda.

Respectful treatment is a methodological commitment. The collective states that it seeks alternative approaches free of violence in its journalism, which in practice means care in covering gender violence and femicide, attention to the language used about victims and dissidences, and educational material designed to improve how others communicate. Its open letters and campaigns, such as the joint letter with the organisation Publicitarias demanding a more equitable, inclusive and diverse communication industry, extend that editorial stance into advocacy for the profession itself.

Coverage areas

The portal's daily coverage spans politics, gender violence, sexual and reproductive rights, work, culture and sport. Recurring subjects visible across its output include the travesti-trans labour quota, comprehensive sexual education, abortion rights, parity in Congress, the memory of the Mirabal sisters and the history of feminist struggle, and figures and events of Argentine public life examined from a gender perspective. Dossiers gather coverage into thematic specials, such as an examination of youth, credit, mental health and the age of criminal responsibility, and a dossier linking fifty years of memory and human-rights struggle with feminist genealogy.

Politics is covered through the same lens: electoral coverage asks how Congress is composed in terms of parity and what elected deputies say about the gender agenda, while chronicles and analysis address reactionary movements, masculinity and the backlash against feminist advances. Culture receives sustained attention, with film, literature and popular culture read for their treatment of women, sexualities and power. The result is a general-news outlet in which the feminist perspective is not a section but the organising principle.

Beyond news: school, consultancy and campaigns

Feminacida understands itself as much more than articles. Its training school offers workshops on journalism, communication, comprehensive sexual education, sport and photography, among other subjects, transferring the collective's methods to students, professionals and organisations. It provides training and consultancy on applying gender and diversity perspectives in workplaces, including companies and institutions, with the practical aim of implementing tools for equality and respect.

The collective also plans and produces communication campaigns designed to transmit specific messages consistent with its feminist and human-rights focus. This service dimension supports the outlet's sustainability and spreads its approach beyond its own audience: organisations that adopt its training or campaigns carry its methods into workplaces and institutions the portal itself could not reach.

Audiovisual work, podcasts and streaming

Feminacida has expanded steadily into audiovisual production. Its productions include Defensoras, an audiovisual cycle made with UN Women Argentina, and ESI que sí, addressing sexual education, as well as the podcast Mariposas, produced with UN Women's support, which reclaims the activism and legacy of the Mirabal sisters, the Dominican activists murdered on 25 November 1960 whose anniversary is marked as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Partnerships with an international body such as UN Women Argentina indicate the institutional recognition the collective's work has achieved.

More recently the outlet launched into streaming: Sustancia X is presented as Feminacida's first stream, a programme with guests discussing politics, current affairs and entertainment, distributed through platforms including Twitch. The move into live video follows its audience's habits and opens a conversational format distinct from the written chronicle, while keeping the same editorial perspective.

Buenos Aires base and federal ambition

Feminacida is based in Buenos Aires, and its coverage is rooted in the capital's feminist movement, courts, Congress and cultural life. Its declared federal perspective, however, pushes it to cover the provinces, and its site organises coverage by place, including cities such as La Plata, reflecting the national structure of the movements it follows. As an online-only outlet, it reaches readers across Argentina and Latin America without a print distribution network, and its subject, the women's and dissidence movement, is defined regionally in its own mission.

Place among Argentine feminist media

Feminacida belongs to the generation of feminist digital media that transformed Argentine journalism in the late 2010s, alongside outlets such as LATFEM. SembraMedia's directory presents it as a medium and self-managed collective dedicated to daily coverage from a feminist perspective, and regional directories of independent media list it among Argentina's independent digital projects. Within that ecosystem, Feminacida is distinguished by the breadth of its activities, news, education, consultancy, campaigns and audiovisual production, and by its popular, accessible register.

The outlet emerged because mainstream coverage of gender was judged inadequate by the movement's own journalists: stereotyped, episodic and often revictimising. Feminist media answered with their own newsrooms, style commitments and training offers, effectively creating a parallel professional standard for covering gender. Feminacida's school and consultancy work exports that standard into the wider industry, which is part of its long-term influence.

Audience and community

The outlet addresses readers of the feminist movement and a broader public interested in gender, rights and culture, and it sustains a community relationship through its dossiers, social presence, streaming and events. Its content mixes service and education with news: explanations of rights, coverage of campaigns and practical material sit alongside chronicles and analysis, so that readers use the site both to follow events and to equip themselves. That combination is characteristic of movement media, whose audiences are also participants.

Significance

Feminacida's significance is that it built a complete feminist communication project, not only a news site. Since 8 March 2018 it has published daily journalism from an intersectional perspective, trained journalists and organisations through its school, advised institutions on gender perspective, produced audiovisual work with international partners and carried its campaigns into the communication industry itself. In the history of Argentine media, it stands as evidence of how the feminist movement of the 2010s created durable institutions, and for its readers it remains a daily source of news told from the standpoint of those who fight gender violence and inequality.