Identity and gender

In recent years, women’s leadership in the Amazon has become increasingly prominent. Despite the conventional norms deeply rooted in their communities, more and more women are emerging with a determined character, assuming leadership roles, facilitating decision-making, weaving networks between communities, and leading actions in defense of the territory and ancestral ways of life. Latin America…

Amelia Barrera Lara (87) has devoted more than half her life to caring for others: first as a daughter and sister, then as a wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She has raised more than 30 people. “Women don’t need to study; what they need is to learn how to iron, wash, and cook to take…

I use photographic self-portraits to show that masculinity appears not as an essence, but as a series of acts, contradictions, and performative tensions. Here, masculinity strips itself of its mandate and transforms. Through these images, I ask myself what it means to “be a man,” but also what happens when that concept is broken, disguised,…

Escaping violent relationships in my parents’ home, I grew up with my maternal grandmother Clemencia, an ultra-Catholic woman. Little by little, through photography and the body, I built a space in which my grandmother unraveled the teachings of submission, violence, and machismo to which she was subjected for years; she appropriates her body, attempts to…

Pelo Malo is a journey of discovery and recognition of Afro pride in which Cuban hip hop singers with feminist and anti-racist messages, together with civil activists, reclaim their African heritage. Afro hair, together with Afro aesthetics in clothing, has become a tool for Afro-descendants in Cuba to reclaim their identity in recent years. The…