10 indigenous women resisting in Latin America
Yásnaya Aguilar Gil is a Mixe linguist from Ayutla, Oaxaca, Mexico. In most of her writings and public dialogues, she asks: what is being a woman? What is being a feminist? Above all, what is being an indigenous woman? In this process of reflection, she dialogues with other women such as the Kaqchikel writer (Guatemala) […]
10 books about the Slave Trade and Abolition written by women
Books are powerful tools for understanding the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and the long struggle for abolition. The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic), saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic […]
LAWA at the British Museum
By Daniela Londoño LAWA Community Engagement and Volunteer Coordinator We have an invitation for you! Here is some context: For two months, a group of LAWA volunteers and Change Makers worked weekly on a project led by the British Museum. As an intersectional feminist and Latin American organisation, occupying the spaces of this museum and putting […]
Fat Justice and non-hegemonic feminisms: starting up a dialogue
By Gabriela Quevedo Fat Justice movements (also called size acceptance, fat acceptance, fat liberation, fat politics) evolved in the 1960’s mainly out of the struggles by fat women, especially black and brown women in the USA, who resisted interpersonal and institutional discrimination by the medical/health establishments, the labour market, and all other spaces in the […]
African roots in Latin American and Caribbean food in 11 (delicious!) dishes
It is estimated that more than 11 million African people were taken from their original territories to be enslaved in what we now call Latin America and the Caribbean region. This human movement comes from colonial times to almost the construction of the Latin American nation-states. Thus, the African diaspora has had an impact […]
The powerful legacy of African diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean
Diaspora and racial erasure in Latin America and the Caribbean have shaped how national identities were constructed, often denying the region’s racial diversity and the legacy of miscegenation. The homogenisation of these identities has concealed the profound racism and social inequality experienced by Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. Colonialism, slavery, forced displacement, exile, and migration are […]