South Hall, Room CBSR 4603
In this talk, activist scholar and community organizer Vicenta Moreno discusses the racialized outcomes of a six-decade-long armed conflict that has produced massive displacements, genocidal-scale deaths, and ecological catastrophes. How have Black women, the main victims of war, responded to these conditions? How have their labor helped to protect Black livelihoods and rebuild communities destroyed by patriarchal militarism? Vicenta Moreno is a founder of Casa Cultural El Chontaduro, a leading Black women organization in the city of Cali, Colombia. She is also the current national director of the Ministry of Culture and Arts.
This talk is part of the Politics of Security and Refusals Series organized by the Black Cities Lab of CLAIR and co-sponsored by the Orfalea Center and also part of the Afro-diasporic Voices, organized by the Center for Black Studies Research.