Meet the Mercaditas Fighting for Fairness in Mexico

Street selling is a risky activity in Mexico City. These street vendors, who call themselves tiangui sellers (street marketers), bazareñas, or mercaditas, are mostly women and nonbinary people. UAM street sellers organize through Facebook groups, some of which have more than 5,000 members. Photo by Monica PellicciaAna Patricia Serrano Herrera, a literature student at UAM, sells K-Pop products, including photos, stickers, and posters. Photo by Monica PellicciaCollective ProsperityOutside of UAM, street sellers work in different universities, the metro station, and public squares, and they are informally organized.