Conversation 1/3 Marooning Education.
Have you ever felt that at school, high school, or university little is said about your culture as an Afro or Indigenous person? Do you feel that the information you receive at school exoticizes or makes invisible your history and culture? The young women who will be sharing their experiences in MÁS Conversaciones para MÁS Orgullo have also felt this way. What have they done about this? They have created, from their Afro-legacy, some options for marooning formal education.
We invite you to meet and talk with Afro-Wayuu youth leader Cira Elena Barragan and Afro-Ecuadorian youth leader Gabriela Alexandra Guerrero Viscarra. These two young women have made poetry, writing, the cultural tradition of their regions, and the stories of the elders their best tools to introduce African and Indigenous heritage in the formal educational system.
For them it is vital to create strategies that allow their communities to have access to the formal educational system, but at the same time, transform, with a maroon pulse, the structures that deny and make them invisible.
The young people who participate in this series of the MÁS Conversaciones para MÁS Orgullo program reaffirm:
We received a legacy and now we replicate it through art and the ancestral knowledge of marronage in spaces that were historically denied to us. We are living agents of new counter-narratives of liberation.
Join via Zoom on Saturday March 18 at 3 PM PST and share with the youth who are actively transforming their realities from the conscience and pride of being the Afrolegacy. Learn More…
