{"id":3873,"date":"2020-07-25T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T04:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/2020\/07\/25\/celebrating-black-women\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T21:18:08","slug":"celebrating-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\/en\/2020\/07\/25\/celebrating-black-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Black Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We didn’t want to let this sunny, blue-sky day pass (at least in Seattle!) to celebrate and remember today, July 25, Afro-Latin, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women’s Day.<\/p>\n\n

This official day of Afro-descendant women arose in 1992 in a meeting of black women in which women from 32 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean participated, gathered in the Dominican Republic in order to make the struggles and resistance visible, and I would add , resilience, of Afro women. The meeting also sought to find political impact strategies to confront racism from a gender perspective. A need and a required and vital work that is still valid today, 18 years after that meeting.<\/p>\n\n

Black and Afro-descendant women have been and continue to be women who have contributed enormously to the cultural richness of the nations of the continent now called America. They have suffered the vicissitudes of gender exclusion, as well as ethnic-racial and class exclusion. Even so and despite this, their contributions to the economy, politics, society, culture and religion are immense and varied and demand their continuous visibility, recovery and exaltation.<\/p>\n\n

In honor of Afro-Latin, Afro-Caribbean and diaspora women, always strong, fighters, leaders, workers, artists, scientists, mothers and defenders of their rights, always with joy and dignity; Today we share with the M\u00c1S community two poems by Afro-Latin women: one by Afro-Costa Rican Shirley Campbell Barr and another by our own Milvia Berenice Pacheco Salvatierra, Afro-Venezuelan and president of the M\u00c1S board of directors.<\/p>\n\n

To all of you, to us, with love, respect and admiration.<\/p>\n\n

-Delia Pinto-Santini<\/p>\n\n

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Absolutely Black<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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I strongly refuse<\/em><\/p>

to deny my voice my blood<\/em><\/p>

and my skin<\/em><\/p>

I refuse<\/em><\/p>

roundly<\/em><\/p>

to stop feeling good<\/em><\/p>

when i see my face in the mirror<\/em><\/p>

with my mouth<\/em><\/p>

resoundingly big<\/em><\/p>

and my nose<\/em><\/p>

resoundingly beautiful<\/em><\/p>

and my teeth<\/em><\/p>

starkly white<\/em><\/p>

and my skin<\/em><\/p>

bravely black<\/em><\/p>

and I refuse<\/em><\/p>

categorically to<\/em><\/p>

stop talking about me<\/em><\/p>

tongue; my accent and<\/em><\/p>

my story<\/em><\/p>

and I refuse<\/em><\/p>

absolutely<\/em><\/p>

to be one of those who remain silent<\/em><\/p>

of those who fear of<\/em><\/p>

who cry<\/em><\/p>

because I accept myself<\/em><\/p>

absolutely free<\/em><\/p>

flatly black<\/em><\/p>

resoundingly beautiful<\/em><\/p>-Shirley Campbell Barr<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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the black<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
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My skin sweats and it’s not from heat<\/p>

but of the enjoyment that the drum brings<\/p>

vibration of love, dance and passion<\/p>

Mother who fights for communion<\/p>

The black one, the black one\u2026 I am the black one<\/p>

thanks to the pain I am,<\/p>

thanks to grace I am,<\/p>

thanks to my son I am<\/p>

and thanks to you I am<\/p>

The black one, the black one\u2026 I am the black one<\/p>

Let the feet mark the rhythm of the heart<\/p>

And may the drum transcend all oppression<\/p>

I have the key to my freedom<\/p>

and you have found it with your awakening<\/p>

The black woman, the black woman… the black woman dances<\/p>

That the feet do not tremble with fear<\/p>

By dancing to the rhythm of dignity<\/p>

That the inheritance calls and claims<\/p>

a just action to achieve equality<\/p>

Dance Bolero, Salsa and Chimbangle<\/p>

Dance Merengue, Punta and Festejo<\/p>

Celebrate the ancestral root at every step<\/p>

And joyfully recognize the new awakening<\/p>

Black, black\u2026 black wake up<\/p>– Milvia Berenice Pacheco Salvatierra<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

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<\/div>\n\n
<\/div>\n\n

Absolutely Black<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
<\/div>\n\n

I strongly refuse<\/em><\/p>

to deny my voice my blood<\/em><\/p>

and my skin<\/em><\/p>

I refuse<\/em><\/p>

roundly<\/em><\/p>

to stop feeling good<\/em><\/p>

when i see my face in the mirror<\/em><\/p>

with my mouth<\/em><\/p>

resoundingly big<\/em><\/p>

and my nose<\/em><\/p>

resoundingly beautiful<\/em><\/p>

and my teeth<\/em><\/p>

starkly white<\/em><\/p>

and my skin<\/em><\/p>

bravely black<\/em><\/p>

and I refuse<\/em><\/p>

categorically to<\/em><\/p>

stop talking about me<\/em><\/p>

tongue; my accent and<\/em><\/p>

my story<\/em><\/p>

and I refuse<\/em><\/p>

absolutely<\/em><\/p>

to be one of those who remain silent<\/em><\/p>

of those who fear of<\/em><\/p>

who cry<\/em><\/p>

because I accept myself<\/em><\/p>

absolutely free<\/em><\/p>

flatly black<\/em><\/p>

resoundingly beautiful<\/em><\/p>-Shirley Campbell Barr<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

<\/div>\n\n

the black<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
<\/div>\n\n

My skin sweats and it’s not from heat<\/p>

but of the enjoyment that the drum brings<\/p>

vibration of love, dance and passion<\/p>

Mother who fights for communion<\/p>

The black one, the black one\u2026 I am the black one<\/p>

thanks to the pain I am,<\/p>

thanks to grace I am,<\/p>

thanks to my son I am<\/p>

and thanks to you I am<\/p>

The black one, the black one\u2026 I am the black one<\/p>

Let the feet mark the rhythm of the heart<\/p>

And may the drum transcend all oppression<\/p>

I have the key to my freedom<\/p>

and you have found it with your awakening<\/p>

The black woman, the black woman… the black woman dances<\/p>

That the feet do not tremble with fear<\/p>

By dancing to the rhythm of dignity<\/p>

That the inheritance calls and claims<\/p>

a just action to achieve equality<\/p>

Dance Bolero, Salsa and Chimbangle<\/p>

Dance Merengue, Punta and Festejo<\/p>

Celebrate the ancestral root at every step<\/p>

And happily acknowledges the new awakening Black, black… black wake up<\/p>– Milvia Berenice Pacheco Salvatierra<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

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