Colectiva ¿Cómo iba vestida?

The Collective ¿Cómo iba vestida? was founded in 2023 in the city of Puebla as a group of artists gathered to produce participatory art interventions and activations during the March 8th march, in the context of International Women's Day. Their practice is grounded in collaborative work with workshops, cultural spaces, and local creators, articulating visual and performatic proposals around gender violence and feminist struggles.

The collective's name reclaims the question "what was she wearing?" — a phrase commonly heard in the context of assault that shifts responsibility onto victims. It also alludes to revictimization and absence when clothing becomes evidence in disappearance cases. From this dual symbolic dimension, the collective denounces violence and challenges the social mechanisms that regulate female bodies.

In 2024, they created an intervention consisting of 60 large-format prints (1.77 x 80 cm), produced by around 30 Puebla-based artists in collaboration with Jacal Gráfico and the Erasto Cortés Print Workshop Museum. In 2025, they developed a giant crocheted bra, made from Tetoron fabric and stuffed with paper, as the centerpiece of the Ch!ch!s Workshop Network, connected with various local artistic spaces. In 2026 we wove ourselves together through a shared braid to collectivize our searches as feminists. And we welcomed more compañeras to march alongside us.

Their statement holds that women's underwear has historically functioned as a device for bodily regulation. Drawing from experiences of violence in public space, they assert the right to dress freely and challenge the sexualization and censorship of the female body — proposing the symbolic reclamation of the bra as a collective gesture of protest and affirmation.