Performance of the play Missa Fêmea (Female Mass) at the Opening of the 5th Feminist Meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean. Picture in the center: Silvia de Mendonça (left.) and Schuma Schumaher.  The Meeting’s theme was ‘Feminism as a transformative movement: assessment and perspectives in Latin America’. About 2,500 women attended the event. Its ground-breaking historic accomplishment was the creation of several Latin American networks focusing on topics such as domestic and sexual violence, decriminalization of abortion, black women and mental health, among others.