Conversation 2/3
The hotbeds of struggle of the casas adentro* are the guests of our 2nd meeting in MÁS Conversaciones para MÁS Orgullo. These young people come to share their word and agency from the ghettos, the galladas, the jodas and the neighborhoods where they live. The wambras, the chames, the palades will tell us about their organizational practices, how they demand rights and improvements in the quality of life of Afro-descendant populations, from the ancestral legacy that they have made their own.
Young people sharing with other young people; young people learning from and with the elderly, in different spaces, cultural, educational, social, health, institutional, independent, etc. What motivates them? The search for justice, achieving the inclusion of Black and Indigenous people as citizens with full rights.
On the one hand, we will have Karen Villa PavónKaren Villa Pavón, Afro-Ecuadorian from the urban palenque Caminos a la Libertad, Afro-feminist activist, applied anthropologist and youth coordinator at the National Coordinator of Black Women (CONAMUNE); and on the other hand, we will be accompanied by Beatriz Salas Benjumea,a young Afro-Guajira, a law student at the University of La Guajira, belonging to various organizations such as Mata e’ pelo, and the District Youth Platform on Afro-youth affairs.
They are clear about the claims against the nation-states, but they also understand their responsibility in the face of the problems they are experiencing. From their resistance and their visions as young people, they will tell us about sexual and reproductive rights, school dropouts, access to education and employment, as well as the problems facing political participation.
How well these young people express themselves, they know what they need and they are also very clear about the path to follow. Come listen to the proposals for bodily sovereignty and the right to decide for themselves; the options that they have proposed to revise the laws on educational matters; and finally the actions that they have launched from their resistance in different organizations, to politically and socially influence Afro and Indigenous culture and identity.
Do you have clarity? Do you want to share your experiences? Do you want to learn?
Join us on Saturday, April 15, for Conversation No. 2: Cimarroneando lo Político, from Series 7: We know what we want We are youth of Afrolegacy,, from Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle (MÁS), so that you know what their proposals are in local contexts, how they make the change they yearn to make a reality, for the future they deserve and the future we all deserve.
**the new Afrodiasporic generation
