María Galindo

María Galindo Neder is a Bolivian anarcha-feminist and psychologist. She has worked as a radio presenter and television host. She has written three books and is also a screenwriter.

Life and career María Galindo Neder was born in 1964 in Cochabamba (another source says La Paz) to an upper-middle-class family. Maria left Bolivia with a visa as a nun to study at a Vatican university. She broadcasts a regular radio program from Mujeres Creando. For her controversial actions (often labeled as performance art or street theater), she was arrested and assaulted several times by Bolivian police even though her older brother, José Antonio Galindo Neder, was a minister under former president Carlos Mesa. She also champions the rights of women who are victims of abuse and sexual harassment caused by machismo. Galindo, a psychologist, teaches sociology at the Higher University of San Andrés. Galindo is an atheist.

In 2022, she wrote “De Ella Feminismo bastardo” in which she develops the idea of illegitimate feminism: “the idea that the social struggle does not produce knowledge, does not produce theory, that it is not a place where knowledge is generated, is a totally vertical and alienating idea”, she explains.

Selected works 2013, No se puede Descolonizar sin Despatriarcalizar, 2007, Ninguna mujer nace para puta (with Sonia Sánchez), 2004, Archivo Cordero 1900–1961 2022, Feminismo Bastardo 2022, América: art work made by three audiovisual pieces and a graffiti. Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid.