Antiracist Feminisms
Antiracist feminisms problematize Eurocentric logics of knowledge, highlight the importance of resignifying language, and challenge coloniality and the violence it represents for racialized individuals and minoritized groups. We recover the testimonies of thinkers, activists, artists and writers who, with their struggles and ideas, have contributed to broadening and enriching today’s feminisms.
Angela Davis
Against racism: a constant fight
A few days before the 2020 US presidential elections, Angela Davis, who is widely recognised as one of the great champions of human rights and a prominent opponent of racial discrimination, speaks with Black and Afro-descendant activists about the situation of antiracist protests in the United States and also about the kinds of exclusion that mark the present.
Ehuana Yaira Ianomami
Gigantic Women
The artist, researcher, and Yanomami leader Ehuana Yaira Yanomami speaks about the body-land viewpoint of rainforest women and tells the journalist and writer, Eliane Brum about the present situation of her people who are threatened with genocide by illegal mining. Esta actividad forma parte ...
Arundhati Roy
Idea, word and action
Arundhati Roy is a writer and activist, widely recognised both for her fictional works and her writings on politics, the environment and human rights. In this conversation with the journalist Natza Farré, the Indian author talks about her work and the publication of the novel The Ministry of ...
Books about Us
A Morning with Tsitsi Dangarembga
Writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga defends the power of storytelling and imagination as means to self-knowledge and emancipation, and defends the importance of a literature that reflects the voices and the experiences of the people who are often sidelined. This conversation takes places within the framework of Resident CCCB, an international residency program of the CCCB in collaboration with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and supported by Fundació Privada MIR-PUIG. ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the internationally best known Nigerian writers. In this conversation with culture journalist Anna Guitart, she speaks of key issues in her work such as the African diaspora, the issue of race, feminism and the political situation in the United States. Chimamanda ...
Oyèrónké Oyewùmí: “I use gender to illustrate the impact of colonisation”
Nigerian sociologist Oyèrónké Oyewùmí is a leading figure in African and decolonial feminism. In this interview, she examines key themes in her academic research, questioning the universality of gender as an analytical category and critiquing the impact of ...
Mona Eltahawy: “Patriarchy is the form of oppression with which the entire world struggles”
Mona Eltahawy, a prominent feminist in the Arabic-Muslim world, talks to us about sources of oppression for women – the state, the street and the home – and how the feminist struggle should not focus on attaining equality, but on destroying the patriarchy. Her first book, Headscarve...
RADAR #6 Aída Bueno Sarduy
Aída Bueno is an anthropologist and filmmaker who dedicates her research and audiovisual work to recovering from the archives the stories of thousands of Black women who were enslaved, silenced and forgotten by official history. Such is the case of Joaquina de Angola, a girl from a plantation ...
Cristina Rivera Garza, Lina Meruane and Gabriela Wiener
Braiding: Saints, Weird, Mestizas
Three key voices in contemporary literature present a performative colloquium on coloniality and violence with audiovisual elements by artist Ale Hop.
The Mirror of Racism
Tania Adam, Elsa Dorlin, Pastora Filigrana, Daura Mangara, Esther (Mayoko) Ortega and Mostafà Shaimi
The journalist Tania Adam moderates this discussion about the possibilities of decolonising the future with a focus on the situation of racism in Spain. She is joined by the Roma activist Pastora Filigrana, university lecturer expert on religious diversity Mostafà Shaimi, the African ...
Sara Ahmed
On Complaint
Sara Ahmed, researcher and writer specialising in feminism, queer theory and postcolonial criticism, talks about the difficulties involved in presenting a complaint in matters of harassment at universities as a result of institutional bullying. She advocates victims uniting in order to challenge a body that frequently tries to discourage them from complaining and convince them of the damaging effects it may have for them, while those responsible band together and support each other to defend their common interests. ...
Mainstream Feminism
Soy cámara online
Is feminism a revolution? And what exactly do we mean by feminism? Is there such a thing as mainstream feminism? This episode of "Soy Cámara" addresses some of these delicate and topical issues with the testimonies of Angela Davis, Chimamanda Ngozi, Arundhati Roy and Judith Butler, invited lecturers at the CCCB in 2017-2018.
I am not your periphery
Karo Moret
Afrofeminism or black feminism is a current of thought that defends that sexism, class oppression and racism are closely related with what is known as intersectionality. Karo Moret, a researcher at Pompeu Fabra University and expert in African culture, writes in this article about Afropeans, ...
Mireia Sallarès and Marta Segarra
Las muertes chiquitas
Following the screening of the documentary Las muertes chiquitas by Mireia Sallarès, a social and inclusive study on pleasure, violence, pain and death with the female orgasm as a thread, the artist talks with Marta Segarra, curator of "Choreographies of Gender" of "FEMINISMS!" exhibitio...