A Territory Called Pë’këya is a visual and auditory journey that revives the ancestral memory of the Siekopai nation, displaced for more than eight decades due to violence and displacement from their territory in the Amazon region between Ecuador and Peru. Through the voice of Milena Piaguaje, a young Siekopai woman from the Secoya Remolino…
“La morena,” a political refugee who cannot even say her name, along with her husband, decided to embark on one of the deadliest migration routes in the world, “The Balkan Route,” from their native Cuba, landing in Serbia and crossing the borders of Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, France, and Spain. The journey is guided by…
Food, as a link between all living beings, leads us through a tapestry of voices reflecting on the bonds of reciprocity and food sovereignty in the city of Cusco. From different places, we hear from Rocío Cjuiro, a community member from Chinchero; Yesica Nina, a seed guardian; Justo Mantilla, a biologist who links traditional knowledge…
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…
My niece Nicole has suffered from episodes of nervous dermatitis for the past eight years. Similarly, Ximena, a 16-year-old teenager, has woken up every night with anxiety attacks since she was 8 years old. What these girls have in common is the trauma caused by the way they were orphaned: their mothers were victims of…
Shrimp is by far the most consumed seafood in the world, followed by salmon and canned tuna. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, global shrimp consumption reaches approximately 4 billion tons per year, of which 170,000 tons are consumed in Spain. In the waters of the Argentine Sea, industrial shrimp fishing is a key…