Afro Feminisms in Cuba: Perspectives from Havana

• In Event: African Diaspora documentaries
  In Paper Session: African Diasporas documentaries

Description for Program

This research-based film project is composed of nearly 20 years of interviews, film, video and audio material recorded by Tanya L. Saunders during twenty years of research in Havana, Cuba. The documentary includes additional audio-visual material from an archive of material from artivists shared with her during her work in Cuba. The central focus of the film is on Black feminist activism in Cuba, with consideration of artivists intervention into LGBT+ activism. This important video project, highlighting the histories and lived experiences of Black women in Cuba, was one of many intellectual works that was semi-lost due to the COVID shutdown. We hope to give more visibility to this project, especially since now, more than ever, we need to challenge the economic violence facing Cuba, an economic violence that also seeks to erase the continued contributions that Black Cuban scholars and activists are making to Black liberation across the Diaspora.

Film length: 44 Minutes

Author

• Tanya Saunders