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In this eighth series we will discuss the complex issue of migration, with an intersectional, afro-centered, and trans-centered gaze. We will weave and make visible how international and migratory policies created by colonial systems, and contemporarily, by the global north, have the clear objective of blocking access and manipulating the subjectivities at convenience, of Afro-diasporic peoples and dissident communities of the global south who are in voluntary or forced mobility, through an anti-black racism that comes from a colonial heritage, and that at the same time perpetuates systems of oppression against black and dissident communities.

We will complement our view of migration by recognizing the diversity of bodies, genders, territories, nations and positions in order to account for the structural violence that affects Afro-diasporic peoples who are in mobility. To this end, we will focus on concepts such as migration, mobility, nationalism, statelessness, racism, anti-black racism, anti-Haitian racism, deterritorialization, among others. From the specific experiences of Central America, Haiti and the southern border of the Spanish territory, we will be able to transversalize these visions to account for how capital and violence work through the perverse device of migration.

Invited:

Ana María Belique, Carla García, Iki Yos Piña Narvaez, Johan Mijail

Dialogue 1. Borders, national state and coloniality.

Saturday, May 10, 2025 / Time: 2 pm Seattle, 3 pm Mexico, 4 pm Colombia & Ecuador, 5 pm Venezuela, 11 pm Spain

How or when has the Afro-diasporic and gender-dissident community made you feel at home? How and when have you made others feel at home?

Dialogue 2. Internal boundaries infused: How and when did we learn to hate each other in mobility?

Saturday, May 24, 2025 / Time: 2 pm Seattle, 3 pm Mexico, 4 pm Colombia & Ecuador, 5 pm Venezuela, 11 pm Spain

How do we build reception mechanisms in destination countries to provide security and affection to those who are arriving?

Dialogue 3. North-South borders and tensions: threading experiences of black and dissident bodies in transit.

Saturday, June 14, 2025 / Time: 2 pm Seattle, 3 pm Mexico, 4 pm Colombia & Ecuador, 5 pm Venezuela, 11 pm Spain

How do we build legal routes or bridges that can make the legal process towards citizenship or membership less traumatic?

Invited:

Ana Belique, is a sociologist, activist and co-founder of Reconocido, a movement that mobilizes and empowers the Dominican population of Haitian descent to defend equality and citizenship rights. Her activism focuses on the restitution of nationality rights to people affected by Ruling 168-13 of the Dominican Constitutional Court in 2013 and on promoting the social and political empowerment of Dominican communities of Haitian descent, particularly those living in Bateyes.

She has coordinated the publication of two books, “Nos Cambió la Vida” and “Somos Quien Somos”, which document the experiences and struggles of the Dominican population of Haitian descent. She has participated in numerous international academic forums addressing the systemic exclusion and human rights challenges faced by this Haitian and Dominican population of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic.

Carla Garcia Garifuna woman from Honduras, living in the United States, with a trajectory of struggle for the rights of the peoples that began in 1977 in an official way, and currently Co-Coordinator of the Co-Redes Negras por la Paz y la Justicia, which in turn is a member organization of the People’s Movement for Peace and Justice. You can find me @carlaZGarcia1 (social network X)

Johan Mijail, writer and performer, leader of Catinga Ediciones. Studied Journalism. She has shown her performative work in the United States, Uruguay, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Germany, and Colombia, with a written and visual work that invites a transfeminist and decolonial imaginary. He has been part of the anthologies “Vivir Allá” editorial Ventana Abierta (Chile), “Inflexión marica. Escrituras del descalabro gay en América latina (Spain), “Afectos y disidencias sexuales jota-cola-mariconas en la Abya Yala” (Mexico) and “Sin pasar por Go. Narrativa dominicana contemporánea”, compiled by Rita Indiana (Mexico). He recently participated in the group shows “Todos los tonos de la rabia” at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain) and “Colirio” at the Centro Cultural de España in Santo Domingo. In 2018 she publishes by the Chilean publishing house Los Libros de la Mujer Rota “Manifiesto Antirracista. Escrituras para una biografía inmigrante”, in 2020 the fanzine “Santo Domingo is Burning” by Catinga Ediciones, and in 2021 her first novel “CHAPEO”, by the Mexican publishing house Elefanta Editorial.

Iki Yos, artist, researcher, writer, Maroon-Caribbean performer in the diaspora; her work explores transcestual gender dissidences, black-Caribbean Maroon memories, archives, mysteries and anti-colonial practices. She promotes transvestite radical imagination and critical fabulations as tools of collective self-preservation and futurity. Trained in sociology, with a master’s degree in sociology of science, she has participated in exhibitions such as y The earthquake is intact (Fundació Joan Miró, 2023). Her work with Colectivo Ayllu is in the collection of the Reina Sofía Museum and has been present at events such as the Biennial of Sydney (2020) and the Brazil Triennial (2021). Author of There is no sex without racialization and other collective texts. She is a member of Periferia Cimarronas, the first Afro theater in Barcelona and a member of the laboratory In the Wakeas well as co-founding the collective Don Hit a la Negrx.

Ig: @Parchitapower