All of the art featured on these pages we found and photographed in and around the streets of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, during an extended visit there early in 2015.

Some of the featured folk art is painted on public walls in and around the beautiful, historical city centre. Some of was painted by passing artists in the city’s youth hostels. But most of it was taken whilst being shown around the Zapatista community, or ‘caracol’ of Oventíc, about an hour’s drive away from San Cristóbal, up into the stunning but treacherously steep, shrouded-in-mist Sierra Madre mountains of southern Mexico.

We used these images firstly and above all, because they are so vibrantly beautiful. Moreover, many feature images of women and are painted by women and children. Women who, tired of waiting for someone else to do it for them, have fought bravely for their truth and a better life for themselves and their communities. You can find out more about the Zapatista women in the short video clip below.

We also chose to use these images because they speak of hope, of rebellion, of the possibility of being the change you want to see. We hope you like them and even better, we hope you visit them yourselves one day.

But most of all, we chose these images because they represent a revolution in thinking, being and believing. Such a revolution in the understanding of female pleasure is this entire project’s aim. We, women, must explain clearly what gives us pleasure, each one of us, if we are ever to receive the abundance of it each one of us deserves.

Yes! Take me to the questionnaire now!