This chapter explores the gendered dimensions of protest by examining the mobilisation of the Adelitas, a women’s brigade created in 2008 to oppose the proposed reform of Pemex, Mexico’s national oil company. Led by Claudia Sheinbaum, the movement formed twenty brigades of five hundred women each to blockade the Senate and prevent the vote. Named in homage to the female combatants of the Mexican Revolution, the Adelitas embodied both symbolic and practical forms of feminist activism. The chapter analyses the logistical and organisational challenges of recruiting and training ten thousand women in self-defense, as well as the emotional and physical strains of maintaining the blockade under heavy police surveillance. It also highlights two underexplored aspects of activism: the role of families in sustaining participation and the often invisible nature of men’s supportive labour. Through the reactivation of dormant Movimiento Urbano Popular networks—now composed largely of veteran, elderly women—the protest illustrates how gender and class relations were reconfigured within a climate marked by discomfort, waiting, and fear. The analysis reveals how women’s collective action redefined both the boundaries and the affective texture of political engagement.