Me Cuido

Taking Care of Yourself, Taking Care of Everyone

Chile, 6 minutes, 2020, experimental

Authors: Las Indetectables, Macarena Rodríguez, Osvaldo Guzmán

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Me Cuido (I take care of myself/I’m careful) questions the relationship between colonial paradigms of health, religious guilt, and the stigmatization of people living with HIV in the context of Chile’s capitalist and neoliberal regime.

Content warning: mentions of violence, substance abuse

Film screening dates: 23.11.2025 — 07.12.2025
Wide shot, portrait of four people. They are standing in the street on a clear day. There is a white fence with bars and a white building behind it. Everyone is dressed lightly, mainly in dark colors—dresses, skirts, T-shirts. All lean on the fence, looking at the camera and smiling.

Las Indetectables

Las Indetectables is a Chilean band led by Sofía Devenir (feminist poet and historian, musician) and Noelia Shalá (Uber/Beat driver, history teacher, and musician). With their friends and collaborators, Macarena Rodríguez(photographer and documentarian) and Osvaldo Guzmán (researcher and producer), they address topics such as HIV/AIDS, hate crimes, the experiences of sex workers and travesti, and the contradictions that occur when marginalized subjects stage political interventions in the street or on public transit.

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