Oral Histories and Performance to Recover Herstories and Restore Peace

• In Event: Reflections from Afro-Diasporic Feminisms Part V: Black Women’s Agency and Methodologies Across Disciplines

Abstract

This presentation showcases processes we make use of at the Chontaduro Cultural House, we with an ethnic-racial and gender-based perspective, and collectively. Using deep links with our ancestry and with other women and men who are working for a world with more justice and love, we work against the ravages of the armed conflict, systematic deaths of black bodies and peoples. We seek political solutions aiming at resignifying life and provide alternative proposals that promote affective links and the exchange of knowledge, such as processes for the recovery of memory related to cultural and ancestral knowledge; research, action, and participation initiatives (IAP) with cross-cultural perspectives of race, gender, class, and sexuality; a socio-political school; the establishment of national and international networks, and artistic and academic animation processes.

Authors

• Maria Vicenta Moreno Hurtado, Independent Scholar

• Maria Elvira Solis

• Elena Hinestrosa, Independent Scholar