Tag: Women of Color

PROGRAMACIÓN | MEMORIAS Y RESISTENCIAS

Claudia Pretelin

Hans Wimmer, Baile a la orilla del mar. Imagen cortesía del Archivo Wimmer Lutz Instruments of Memory y el Museo de las Mujeres Costa Rica presenta MEMORIAS Y RESISTENCIAS: MUJERES | ARTISTAS| HISTORIAS AFROLATINAS Y CARIBEÑAS, un proyecto curatorial que reúne investigaciones de Claudia Mandel Katz (Argentina-Costa Rica), Adriana Palomo (Argentina), Claudia Pretelin (México-Estados Unidos) y Sussy Vargas Alvarado (Costa Rica), cuatro historiadoras latinoamericanas cuyo trabajo para esta exposición se centra en un enfoque integrado de género, uniendo distintas latitudes a través de una misma temática. Esta muestra virtual incluye…

Retracing Our Steps: An Interview with Jackie Amézquita

Claudia Pretelin

Jackie Amézquita is an artist and activist originally from Quetzaltenango, a city in Guatemala’s western highlands. In 2003, at only seventeen years old, she left her hometown, driven by the yearning to be reunited with her mother who had migrated to the United States in need to cover her son’s expensive medical treatment. Amézquita traveled by foot, bus, and car. She arrived in the U.S. undocumented after her second attempt to cross the border, not without experiencing many of the dangers and common threats that immigrants, particularly women, have to…

Borderless: A conversation with Mara Ahmed, Part 2

Claudia Pretelin

On May 11, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, I received Mara Ahmed’s email with her responses to our conversation. At the time, some media outlets were starting to give attention to the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American man fatally shot while jogging in Glynn County, Georgia. Since then, we’ve seen George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and learned about Breonna Taylor’s tragic death in Louisville, Kentucky, among many other cases of violence against black people in this country. As a team, Instruments of Memory has joined…