In the context of centuries of racism and exploitation, the dignity transmitted by the bearing of these women embodies what the Zapatista movement came to represent: the resistance of the marginalized and forgetful against the powerful. Peasants turned into fighters, mothers become revolutionary leaders. Tens, hundreds, thousands of gathered, small, brunette Zapatista women, their faces covered with red bandanas that hide their individual identity, their long black braids hanging on their backs, their fists splashing the air. They have marched, they have organized, they have sown seeds, both real and symbolic. They have planted themselves in front of the Mexican army and in front of their husbands. They have transformed their lives, changing the world around them.