Luelmo’s death has been a widespread catalyst for change—now on runs as much as in bars, offices, and homes.
Advocates say that barriers to safe running for women in Spain—including street harassment and gendered stereotypes of female participation in sports—stem from the authoritarian regime of Francisco Franco, notorious for its oppressive enforcement of traditional gender roles in Spanish society.
Groups like Mitre’s Mujeres Que Corren, as well as Levanta La Voz—the Spanish partner of the U.S.-based grassroots anti-harassment initiative Hollaback—provide group runs, training resources, and workshops on street harassment. Building off thestudy conclusions, Mitre’s advocacy group partnered with European energy giant EDP, a longtime supporter of races in Europe, to create Sincronizadas, a mobile app that organizes running meetups for women in Spain.
“Sincronizadas is not sending the message, ‘You’re crazy for running alone outside,’” Mitre says. “We’re saying to those women that if, for whatever reason, you don’t want to run alone, here’s another tool. In Spain, it’s a right that has taken us over 30 years to win.”, which has seen an unprecedented challenge to the nation’s culture of machismo and the subsequent rise of an established far-right party for the first time since 1975, has only spurred female running advocates on.
Nowhere is that clearer than Luelmo’s untouched final tweet, an illustration of her own design celebrating 2018’s International Women’s Day. It’s now a digital shrine to which hundreds have replied. “This isn’t a running-specific issue, it’s a societal one,” Chico says. “Spain has a problem, and now it’s out in the open, pushed by a massive, unstoppable movement.”
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