About the event
We want to invite you once again to connect with our “MORE Conversations for MORE Pride” community conversations. We are coming to the end of this 4th Series that we titled, Territories of Freedom: Testimonies of the Afro Diaspora. This is the last of three conversations where the voices of Afro communities have been the protagonists and where we have highlighted their diversity.
In this series we have talked about the different ways in which, as descendants of African@, we have built, sought, maintained and recovered our freedom. In our first conversation we talked about Afro women and de-racializing processes withEvelyne Laurent-Perrault, an Afro-Venezuelan/Haitian historian of the Afro diaspora and Ana Gabriela Cano Ortiz (Black Mama) Afro-Ecuadorian Hip Hop artist In the second conversation, we had Meyby Ugueto-Ponce, Afro-Venezuelan, from Caracas, descendants of two free black towns: La Sabana and Curiepe , and Rayza de La Hoz, Afroguajira, promoter of Afro aesthetics and the empowerment of Afro-descendant women, together with two special guests Keila Miranda : Granddaughter of palenqueros and palenqueras, heir to the territory and language of San Basilio de Palenque. Female voice of the Kombilesa Mi group. And Zaida del Carmen Ponce , from Caracas, descendant of Curiepera. They shared with us about Curiepe in Venezuela and Palenque de Benkos Biohó in Colombia, two communities that achieved their freedom using different strategies. On the one hand, the negotiation with the colonial system and on the other the rupture through the flight of the slave regime. These two experiences showed us two different ways of managing freedom, which manifest the wealth of political and intellectual perspectives of the African diaspora and also show the heterogeneity of the processes of resistance and knowledge of the Afro diaspora. For this last conversation we will have as a special guest Gemaly Padua Uscanga, traditional musician, Fandango Dancer, an Afro-descendant who will share with us where she is in her process of re-deconstruction and self-recognition and the work she does with the ALPEKEE collective.
We want to close this series by celebrating this space of conversations as a virtual territory of the Afro diaspora. We invite you to create together that day a rochela, Maniel, cumbe, palenque, virtual quilombo.
Come build and intervene
We will wait for you
We thank PeoplesHub for collaborating with and funding this series of conversations.
