We are now MÁS podcast.
We have designed for you, a space where the voices of the Afro and indigenous diaspora resonate louder, echo in your identity. A place where what we started in “MAS Conversations” uses the power of orality, music and soundscapes, to extend our reflections against structural racism, celebrate our identity and above all, continue in this exercise of community building.
So connect with these genuine dialogues that will be crossed by the power of our ancestralities.
“MÁS Conversaciones para MÁS Orgullo”. It is a virtual space that was born within the framework of the covid-19 pandemic, in response to national racial tensions in May 2020. The aim was to raise awareness about anti-blackness feelings and provide a space of support and healing for members of our community. Our firm intention is to focus on the voices of Afrodescendant and Afro-Indigenous people, and highlight community dialogue and art as a way to reinvent and create space to connect and strengthen the identities that oppressive systems try to erase.
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Penelists:
Lali Fernando Riasgo
Youth leader and alternative communicator, my main objective with the creation of content for social networks like Instagram and tik tok, is to make visible the customs and cultural traditions of territories that are in the periphery and that for many are unknown.
One of my purposes is to expose social issues and serve as a speaker for organizations and social leaders who from different areas are working for the improvement and welfare of communities throughout the country.
Alexis Mina
I was born on June 11, 1999 in the city of Ibarra, I am a weird boy, very funny, someone enjoys laughing most of the time. Today I am pursuing the dream of being an artist, I use the dry technique a lot using sepia, pastels and charcoal and I love representing my Afro-Ecuadorian culture, but portraying women. I feel good doing it, it fulfills me and I want blackness to be recognized beyond the ordinary. Sometimes, well over time I liked to mix my art with comedy and no, not as a joke, but to make it known that this is my personality, that person is me.
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Panelists:
Karen 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)
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.
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Panelists:
Cira Elena Barragán Pushaina Born in Riohacha- La Guajira (Colombia) 22 years-old Afro-wayuu. Law and psychology student. Fond of poetry and short stories. Member of the afro women’s collective, Mata ‘e Pelo.
Gabriela Alexandra Guerrero Viscarra Born in Imbabura-Ibarra (Ecuador), 29 years-old afro-Ecuadorian.Graduated in Pedagogy of the Arts, and teacher of Afrochoteña Dance, she works with boys-girls-youth and women from the Ancestral Territory of Valle del Chota, Esmeraldas, and Guayaquil. Member of the National Coordinator of Young Black Women, member of the Carchi Provincial Board of Ethnoeducation.
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Panelists: Caridad Brito Ballesteros and Manu Nascimiento.
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Panelists:
Mireya Peña, Social worker, cooperativist, writer, singer, cook, mother, and grandmother. is part, among other organizations, of the Unidos San Agustín Convive cooperative and theartist organization the Cumbe the of Esperanza, in Caracas, Venezuela. Mireya has worked in organizing planned food distribution spaces connecting rural and urban communities.
Julio César Rodríguez Castellón By profession Social re-creator, Human Rights activist, President of the Colombia Joven Corporation and coordinator of the youth fabric, representative of the social organizations of Villa Rica Cauca before the municipal mining board, conscientious objector, and North Cauca Regional Promoter of the Grupo Corporation Seeds and Fian Colombia. With 25 years of experience in social and community work with youth and children in northern Cauca.
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Panelists:
Rummie Quintero Verdú: General Director of DVD, (Divas of Venezuela Civil Association) referent for Venezuela of the INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FEMITRANSLAC and of the INTERNATIONAL TRANS ASSEMBLY.
Anyel Adanna Duran: Transgender woman from Magdalena Medio Colombia. Defender of the human rights of sexual and gender dissidence. President of the Magdalena Diversa Foundation. Veterinary doctor and social worker by profession. With gender studies. Researcher at the Peacebuilding Observatory of the Universidad de la Paz.
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Anyel Adanna Duran. Transgender woman from Magdalena Medio Colombia. Defender of the human rights of sexual and gender dissidence. President of the Magdalena Diversa Foundation. Veterinary doctor and social worker by profession. With gender studies. Researcher at the Peacebuilding Observatory of the Universidad de la Paz.
Macu is a history and geography student at Universidad del Valle, a graduate of the second cohort of the certificate in Afro-Latin American studies at Harvard University. Is a community researcher, columnist for the magazine Afrofeminas. Is also an activist for the social and sexual rights of black LGBTI communities.
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Panelists:
Johan Mijail: (@johanmijail_1) Writer and performance artist of Afro-Dominican origin. has published the books “Beggars of the Caribbean”, “Inflamed with rhetoric. Promiscuous writings for a techno-decoloniality”, “Anti-racist manifesto. Writings for an immigrant biography”, “Santo Domingo is burning” and “CHAPEO”. Her work is linked to transfeminist and decolonial imaginaries.
NaniCurvy Maracumango: (@nanicurvy) Afro artivist, healer, Afro-Peruvian curvymodel, raises her voice from her Ancestry and life experiences Breaking the silence and the canons established from the patriarchal and cultural hegemony. I decide to be my own voice, body, movement, love, actions, militancy, non-binary motherhood, and music. reconnected from spirituality, nature, art, and blacklovepower.
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Second Series Territories of Freedom: Testimonies from the Afro Diaspora: Fall 20221(October, November, December). Estas conversaciones que tuvieron el financiamiento y el apoyo técnico de PeoplesHub.
Panelists:
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.. Also shared with us about the tradition of the Fandango and the power of the Fiestas as a form of sociopolitical organization, as a space to meet with others and with herself.
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
Panelists: Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, an Afro-Venezuelan/Haitian historian of the Afro diaspora and Ana Gabriela Cano Ortiz (Black Mama) an Afro-Ecuadorian Hip Hop artist
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Panelists: Minox – Minoty Afrovenezuelan – dancer and graphic designer / Julian Diaz / DIOKAJUAfrocolombian – contemporary dancer / Black Mama – Afroecuadorian – hip hop / María Guillén/Poesía Mariarte – afromexican – plastic arts / Meyby Ugueto Ponce – Afrovenezuelan traditional dancer and anthropologist / Iki Yos PeñaAfrovenezuelan artist
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Saturday, March 16, 2021
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Dialogue 2. Dismantling miscegenation
Panelists: Milvia Pacheco, Gilda Blanco, Meyby Ugueto and Sandra Huber
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Panelists: Ingrid Gamboa, Luis Rocca, Sandra Huber and Rosa Colchado
Panelists: Meyby Ugueto and Gilda Blanco
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Panelists: Iris Viveros and Wilbor Guerrero
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Panelists: Monica Rojas and Iliana Rodriguez Silva
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Panelists: Milvia Pacheco and Gilda Blanco
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