Precarias a la deriva is a “feminist initiative situated between research and activism, active in and around Madrid from 2002 onwards. In June 2002 Spanish unions organised a general strike in response to changes in the labor legislation. A group of women, most of them active in the feminist social centre La Eskalera Karakola in Madrid, were unsatisfied with the lack of representation for addressing concerns about their unstable, flexible and precarious working and living conditions, and doubted the effectiveness of strike mobilization as a resistance tool… The initiative Precarias a la deriva (literally: Precarious women adrift) arose from this experience and organized its first deriva (literally meaning 'drift') in October 2002.”