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Rainforest is Female

Program curated by Eliane Brum

Journalist and writer Eliane Brum curates a series of conversations with indigenous activist leaders Ehuana Yaira Yanomami, Patricia Gualinga and Txai Suruí, and archaeologist Eduardo Neves to discuss the struggles in the Amazon today.

Eduardo Neves

Wild Memory

The archaeologist Eduardo Neves has worked to debunk the myth of the Amazon as a realm without humans, pointing out that it was intensely populated by Indigenous societies which shaped it to become the centre of biodiversity for which is known today, but which is also being ever more rapidly destroyed. In recovering the memory of the rainforest, archaeology shows that another world is possible because other worlds have already been possible.

Txai Suruí

Postponing the End of the World

The activist and youth leader Txai Suruí speaks with the journalist and writer Eliane Brum about the struggle of young people who are trying to combat the climate crisis in Brazil, and about the resistance of Indigenous communities against extractivism, deforestation, enormous fires, and about bodies that make it possible to postpone the end of the world.

Patricia Gualinga

Living Forest

Patricia Gualinga, climate activist and defender of women’s rights, whose work has been recognised with the Olof Palme Prize, speaks with the journalist and writer Eliane Brum about the long struggle of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, to defend nature and the lives of Indigenous peoples.

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.