Madrid/The Cuban journalist and writer María Matienzo and the Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener star in a feminist conversation in Madrid on the occasion of the launch of Collective. Feminisms from the margins in Latin Americaa volume promoted and compiled by Civil Rights Defenders that brings together voices of activists, thinkers and human rights defenders from different countries in the region.
The publication was born from the initiative of Cuban women’s organizations interested in establishing a dialogue with Latin American feminist movements and addresses, among other issues, sexual and reproductive rights, black and decolonial feminisms, the defense of indigenous territories, the situation of migrant women, political participation, the rights of LGBTIQ+ people, economic justice, peace building and new views on masculinities.
Among the book’s participants are the Colombian anthropologist Mara Viveros Vigoya, the K’iche’ Mayan leader Andrea Ixchíu Hernández, the co-founder of the Ni Una Menos movement María Florencia Alcaraz, the Colombian feminist Rosa Emilia Salamanca, the Mexican labor activist Betty Ávalos, the researcher Andrea Neira Cruz and the defender of the rights of migrant women Estefanía Mendoza.
The Cuban perspective occupies a prominent space in the volume through Matienzo, journalist, writer and activist currently exiled in Madrid. Their contributions focus on issues such as abortion and sexual and reproductive rights, sexual dissidence, and anti-racist and decolonial perspectives. Matienzo also directs Museum V, Virtual Museum of Memory against Gender-Based Violence, created in 2022.
Collective It is presented not as a homogeneous vision of Latin American feminism, but as a journey through experiences that emerged in very different contexts: from a political prison in Cuba and an indigenous assembly in Guatemala to the mobilizations of the Argentine green tide, the border neighborhoods of Ciudad Juárez and the Latin American communities in exile.
The meeting, organized by La Parcería and Civil Rights Defenders, will be free of charge according to the call issued for the launch. The presentation will be formatted as a conversation between Matienzo and Wiener and will last two hours.
