Sin Fronteras
Latin American girls and young women advocating for equality
Sin Fronteras (No Limits) is a project to support Latin American girls and young women aged between 14 and 24 years old living in London
- At Sin Fronteras we weave trust and mutual support into our work, valuing our diversity and raising our aspirations.
- We provide a safe and empowering space where young Latin American women can express themselves, develop their potential, strengthen critical thinking, and engage in social change.
- Through creative arts and collective action, participants build self-esteem, develop skills, and take action to ensure their rights are recognised. Together, we work towards the empowerment of girls and young women with no limits.
- We also support girls and young women to access counselling, education, welfare, political participation, and other services.
Young Women’s Advisory Board (YWAB)
The Young Women’s Advisory Board (YWAB) is a safe space where young women engage in peer research, shape policy recommendations, and lead campaigns to end violence against women and girls (VAWG).
YWAB operates as a year-long training programme that builds evidence to inform LAWRS’ policy and campaigns work, while amplifying young women’s voices in the fight for their rights.
Recent peer research and campaigning projects have focused on:
- 2023-2024: Tackling barriers faced by young Latin American migrant women experiencing VAWG when seeking support.
- 2024-2025: Exploring the impact of sexual harassment in higher education on young Latin American women.
- 2025-2026: Addressing online abuse and the fetishisation of the ‘Latina’ image.
All our activities, sessions and materials are completely free of any charge
Our memories
2025
Our YWAB programme ran from May 2025 to February 2026, with twelve training sessions focusing on feminist activism, self-care for activists, understanding VAWG, tech and online abuse, artivism, and peer research methods. These sessions have been guided by LAWRS’ Staff, Partnership for Young London, and the artist Ximena Ruiz del Rio.
We conducted focus groups with board members that have lived experience as Latin American women living and/or studying in London. These discussions allowed us to identify common experiences and refine our research topic. We collectively decided to focus on racial fetishisation and online abuse due to its contemporary relevance and connection to our lived experience. This led to our research question:
What is the impact of the fetishisation on TikTok and Instagram of the ‘Latina’ image on the identities of young Latin American women aged 18 to 25 living in London?
In addition to our peer research report, the YWAB created an social media campaign that represented our commitment to highlighting how the fetishisation of the ‘Latina’ image is a form of online abuse and the impact it has on the identities of young Latin American women.
As part of the dissemination and advocacy phase of our peer research as the Young Women’s Advisory Board (YWAB) at LAWRS we launched our latest video, ´Fight the feed. Fight the fetish.’
Collectively created by the YWAB, the video serves as an artivist response to the research findings and as a powerful tool for public engagement. In the video, the peer researchers share key insights from their investigation, challenge the hypersexualisation and stereotyping of Latina women and girls, and call for safer, more equitable digital spaces.
Drawing on real examples of fetishising and harmful online content, they expose the scale and normalisation of this issue while centring the lived experiences behind the data. By combining testimony, analysis, and creative expression, the video translates research evidence into an accessible and compelling narrative.
Bringing together the group’s feminist analysis, the video clearly presents their findings and articulates concrete demands for change. At the same time, it celebrates their Latin American roots, highlights their sisterhood and resilience, and reaffirms their collective commitment to upholding the rights of ALL women and girls.
2024
The YWAB programme ran from April 2024 to March 2025, with training sessions focusing on peer research, leadership and advocacy, VAWG, sexual harassment, and artivism. These sessions have been guided by LAWRS, Partnership for Young London, and the artist Ximena Ruiz del Río.
Through discussing shared experiences, the YWAB discovered a gap in research concerning how Latin American women’s intersecting identities affect their experiences with sexual harassment in higher education. The impact of this harassment deeply affects young Latin American women as they navigate university spaces.
To amplify their advocacy efforts, they created a peer research report that gives voice to these experiences.
As part of the YWAB’s peer research process, they also created a social media campaign to raise awareness of sexual harassment and advocate for young migrant women’s rights. The campaign reflects their commitment to tackling all forms of VAWG in British society.
2023
Our Young Women’s Advisory Board (YWAB), provides young Latin American migrant women with a space for policy and campaigning participation where they develop their leadership and advocacy skills.
This is the first edition of the YWAB programme at LAWRS, they focused their work on advancing strategies to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG) and advocate for the rights of young migrant women in the UK.
In addition to our peer research report, the YWAB created an artivism campaign with 12 images that portray their work on identifying the barriers to support that young Latin American Migrant Women encounter when facing violence against women and girls (VAWG).
The YWAB spearheading this campaign in the UK represents a beacon of hope for communities that have been marginalised. By focusing on gender equality, prevention of every form of VAWG, representation, fair access to higher education, healthcare, economic empowerment, and cultural exchange, they are working towards a brighter future for all.
2022
With this video, which was collectively created by the young women members of the group in collaboration with the illustrator Ximena Ruiz Del Río, they want to share their message of equality and promote social change. For this purpose, the video gathers their feminist manifesto, celebrates our Latin American roots, highlights our sorority and resilience, and invites you to join the activism for the upholding of the rights of all women and girls.
Watch the video here.
Sin Fronteras’ participants created written accounts of their personal journeys when coming to live in the UK. Each story, created in collaboration with the illustrator Ximena Ruiz Del Río, provides an inspiring account of the experiences, struggles and learnings they have faced. The collection of illustrated stories reflects the courage of those who dared to put words to their own experiences. The pieces help build a strong shared perspective on these experiences, highlighting similarities, shared feelings and connections between their journeys.
Collection available at:
2021
In our Sin Fronteras group, we know that well-being is important for our mental health, and physical and emotional growth.
Our Guide to personal well-being for young women, named: “This is who we are. Taking care of ourselves”, is an effort to reach out to those girls and young women who need to hear this message of encouragement.
This Guide was prepared with love for all of them and to remind them that: you are not alone!
Guide available here
This video was created by the young participants of Sin Fronteras, in collaboration with Fotosynthesis, to amplify their voices and to share their message of social justice, gender equality, anti-racism and recognition of the Latin American community in the United Kingdom.
The video is a celebration of our diversity, identities and cultures; a wake-up call for decision-makers to act; and an invitation to other youth groups, feminists, and minority communities, to join forces and support us in our role as agents of change in the British society.
Video available here
2018
A thousand steps is a short documentary by the young women participants of Sin Fronteras, living in London, reflecting on their dreams and experiences of migration.
Watch the video here.
2016
Society might want to make women decorative objects, but we want to be the main characters. In this video we deconstruct the typical stereotypes of women and reconstruct them with our own stories and demands as young Latin American women in the UK.
If you would like to feel comfortable being yourself, free from the so-called ‘perfect’ stereotypes, then join us in our Sin Fronteras group and make the change.
Watch the video here