abolition feminism
in Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador
supported by
Abolition Feminism for Ending Sexual Violence and Newcastle University’s Gender Research Group
Latin American feminists have had a long tradition of activism and resistance against violence of all kinds, but especially violence against women, girls and sex-dissident communities.
By opening the conversation in these three workshops, we will learn from the knowledge and practice of Latin American feminists, which is a first step to start building spaces of shared struggles and ideas.
As Latin Americans in the diaspora, we feel committed and responsible for building bridges between the feminist collectives in our region and the experiences of feminists in the U.K. Learn more about who we are here: Melany Cruz, Silvana Tapia Tapia and Laura Loyola-Hernández.
About the
workshops
When & Where
1
3
November 23rd | 4pm UK/ 10am MX, Colombia & Ecuador/ 12pm Chile
Art and popular political education to build alternative futures
November 9th | 4pm UK/ 10am MX, Colombia & Ecuador/ 12pm Chile
Immigration, carceral geographies and the role of technology in gender-based violence
Link to register workshop 1 here
Link to register workshop 2 here
2
November 16th | 4pm UK/ 10am MX, Colombia & Ecuador/ 12pm Chile
Environmental abolition/ mi cuerpo, mi primer territorio (my body, my first territory)
Link to register workshop 3 here
Meet the speakers
November 9th Immigration, carceral geographies and the role of technology in gender-based violence workshop
To be confirmed
Corredores
migratorios
Cristina Burneo Salazar
Our motto is to symbolically open migratory corridors in our countries and give an account of our displacements. We set in motion narratives, data, images and perspectives to question the policies of closing borders across the Americas. These are being consolidated from the United States and range from prisons for children in Texas, to the less visible borders imposed on entire peoples in situations of forced displacement throughout the continent.
Our collective accounts for our own migratory movements. We work from Ecuador, and we share various national origins, migratory statuses, pasts and presents. We value each border-crossing that makes our work and our existence possible. The history of humanity is the history of our displacements.
For more information on our collective and publications see here.
@Corredoresmigratorios
@CorredoresMigra
Colectivo Hermanas de la Sombra
Marisol Hernández y Marcia Trejo
Our collective seeks to dignify women in prison through the publication of writings and other artistic productions. Since 2008, we have carried out feminist writing interventions in spaces where violence is experienced.
In 2012 we made a collection of poetry plaquettes in a box handmade with coffee, called Women inhabiting a dream of freedom. We also created the book Captive Mareas, Navigating the letters of women in prison, an object book that was bound by hand inside the prison.
The profits from the sale of the publications go to making more publications and also to support women who are released from prison in emergency situations.
For more information on our collective and publications see here.
@Colectiva Editorial Hermanas En La Sombra
November 16th Environmental abolition/ mi cuerpo, mi primer territorio (my body, my first territory) workshop
MODATIMA & Chile's Constitutional assembly
Carolina Vilches
The Defense Movement for Access to Water, Land and Environmental Protection (MODATIMA) is an organization born in 2010 in ValparaĂso, Chile. It aims to defend the rights of peasants, workers and inhabitants of the area, who have been affected since the 1990s by the theft and hoarding of water perpetrated by agro-industrial business (businessmen in collusion with politicians).
It demands "justice in the rivers" in the face of water theft and abuse by the powerful, who are protected by constitutional guarantees and the water code that has privatized the waters in Chile.
For more information here
@modatima_cl
@modatimachile
MODATIMA
Environmental activists
Lina LucumĂ Mosquera and Mauri Balanta Jaramillo
Lina LucumĂ Mosquera is a young woman of African descent from Colombia. She is a public accountant from the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Master in Development from the University of Sheffield in England and, currently, a PhD student in decolonization of global markets at De Montfort University in England. Her history is tied to the fertile lands of the QuinamayĂł corregimiento located in the flat zone of the south of the department of Valle del Cauca.
Lear more about the work Lina does here.
Mauri Balanta Jaramillo is a human rights activist from Columbia. In all of her work – not only as a social scientist and filmmaker but also as director of communications and information management for Casa Cultural El Chontaduro in the eastern part of Cali – she promotes equal rights for different ethnic groups and political emancipation for Black youth, women and LGBTIQ+ people. Mauri works with The Chontaduro House Association, a non-profit, non-governmental organization that works for the defence of human rights and eco-environmental care. It promotes and encourages reading and the artistic training of boys, girls, young people and adults, taking art as a strategy for the formation of critical, self-critical and committed people in the search for collective solutions to the problems of their country.
To learn more about the work Mauri does see here.
K' ajlay collective
Kristell Pech Oxte
Maya K'ajlay is a public history project that aims to spread the agency of the Mayan people in the historical processes that shaped the Yucatan Peninsula as we know it today.
For this we use social networks such as twitter, facebook and instagram. We share ephemera and publish blog entries about characters, places, territories and regions relevant to the history of the Mayan peoples.
Our work seeks to strengthen the process of free determination through the revitalization of collective memory in response to current ongoing sociopolitical contexts.
More information here
@historiamaya
@historiamaya
K'ajlay
November 23rd Art and popular political education to build alternative futures workshop
Colectivo Memorarte
Memorarte: urban arpilleras is a collective of
embroiderers residing in Chile who create pieces for
the promotion, dissemination and defence of the rights of humans.
They use embroidery to influence public opinion. An important part of the work consists of intervening in open spaces such as marches, rallies and festivals, where large-format arpilleras are presented and elaborated collectively, supporting legitimate demands
of citizenship.
The group was officially born at the beginning of the year
2016 and is made up of more than 15 women from different
ages and occupations.
Learn more about the collective here.
@memorarte
@colectivomemorarte
Mujeres de Frente
Andrea Aguirre and Elizabeth Pino
We were born as a collective in the women's prison in Quito - Ecuador, in 2004. Imprisoned and non-imprisoned women embarked on a process of research and anti-penitentiary feminist action.
Today, we are a community of cooperation and care among self-employed street vendors, recyclers, domestic workers, university students, teachers, artists, released women, relatives of people in prison, children and adolescents. We are indigenous, Afro-descendants, mestizas and whitened cholas. And we are sexually diverse people.
More information on our collective and how to support us here.
@MujeresdFrente
@mujeresdefrente
@Mujeres de Frente
Nina Nina
Is a DJ, rapper and transfeminist educator. Nina is the promoter of the Hip Hop and Ballroom cultures in Mexico, where they perform as a Voguer, Sex Siren and MC/Chanter. Nina is committed to creating spaces for learning, pleasure and enjoyment for women and sex-dissident communities. From workshops and experiences to parties and balls, Nina believes that play, celebration and laughter are important devices for learning, liberation and enjoyment; and that eroticism is a tool that women and sex dissidents can use to regain power and better navigate the world.
Since 2016, they have been part of Las Hijas del Rap, a successful feminist hip hop group that re-appropriates the tools of urban culture to strengthen feminist narratives among girls, adolescents and young people in Yucatan, Mexico. Currently, Nina is putting their energies into Manifestations, a project of music, celebration and dance to redistribute power in the party.
More information on Nina and their projects here.
@ninanina.club
What to Expect
Interactive workshop
speakers will present their work
participants will have opportunity to interact with speakers
simultaneous translation for spanish and english
You will need to be in a place where you feel comfortable to speak during group discussions.
You will need a reliable wifi connection
this is an interactive event, so you will need a desktop PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone with microphone, webcam and speaker or headphones.
These are free online workshops
if you are in a position to do so, we ask you make a small donation to the collectives and/or promote their work
We will be using zoom for the sessions.
To sign up for each session use the below Buttons
Extra
Resources
- La primera Feminista publications here
- Blog on Alliance against prisons by Corredores Migratorios here
- MODATIMA booklet on “Waters for Communities and Nature" here
- Photo essay: A look at Cacharreras, a mobilization of intersectionality by Lina Lucumi here
- Videos about Chontaduro Cultural House Association A collective space to dream and build a different world here
About Abolition Feminism for Ending Sexual Violence
This new collective brings together scholars with activists, practitioners and artists across the UK and overseas who are interested in abolition feminism and ending sexual violence. Our key aims are to leverage institutional funding and resources to support established abolitionist work, and to develop scholarship, pedagogy and activism around abolition feminism and sexual violence. In time, we hope to be able to make a positive contribution to the growth of abolition feminism in the UK.
Find out more about us here.
Got questions?
Email Address
@abolition_fem