Mexico City Honors Frida Kahlo By Decorating The Vehicle That Broke Her Back

Mexico City has unleashed a fleet of Fridabuses in yet another attempt to remind everybody that, 100 years after her birth, the matriarch of bizarre self-portraits is still watching us from above. The giant pink buses are meant to “foment a culture of respect” towards women in a town where men using public transportation tend to be a bit, shall we say, handsy. Vivir Latino translates the rest of the rhetoric behind the bus campaign, because, frankly, we’re sluggish at this point in the day:

With the image of Frida Kahlo and messages such as “I want to walk freely in the streets of my city without being afraid because I am a woman”, the capital city government is attempting to foment equality for females.

Poignant slogan or not, has everyone forgotten that the woman broke her spinal column in a bus accident when she was 18? Even we remember that from art class, and we were high the whole time.

Gropers beware: The Fridabus takes Mexico City [Vivir Latino]
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