Logbona Olukonee - Resistance is a Bridge between activisms: Blackness and queerness in Cuba and Chiapas - CANCELLED

Logbona Olukonee
November 1, 2017 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Integrated Science Building (ISB) Room 145

EVENT  IS CANCELLED

Resistance Studies Initiative Fall Speaker Series: 
Distinguished researchers and activists share critical reflections on resistance issues.

Logbona Olukonee is an afrocuban feminist queer and audiovisual activist. She is focused on the genealogy of resistance of the intersections between race, gender and sexuality, of the black diaspora in the margins of Cuban and Mexican society. She is interested in the fight against isolation and criminalization of blacknesss. Currently she is in a Phd program in Social Intervention and Feminist Studies in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México.

In Cuba she developed an afrocuban queer project from 2013 to 2015 caled Motivito (Get together) that focused on creating spaces of healing and knowing, while celebrating queerness and blackness using the arts as social protest. Also, along with other black feminist activists she developed a fanzine called Boletín TUTUTUTU, that looks to empower black women’s history, knowledge and culture in Havana. She also was a Cuban History Professor in the Agrarian University of Havana.

Currently in San Cristóbal she is developing a project called Decolonizing our Hips, with Elena Martinez, an afrocuban dancer. This project focuses on reusing black spirituality and power to resist from an afrofeminist queer perspective as a tool to decolonize our bodies and the way that we relate with each other.

Logbona will focus on how her own experience as an afrodiasporic and queer Cuban migrant in San Cristóbal, Mexico has allowed her to establish dialogues about resistance in these communities - resistance to coloniality imposed on the organization of social relations, and feminist spaces. She will use an afrofeminist standpoint as a theoretical and methodological tool to reflect on how blackness and queerness navigates in the border of the South of Mexico. 
 
As a member of the afrofeminist queer AfroKute Collective, Logbona will use the experiences of the workshop Decolonizing Our Hips, that she is developing in Chiapas and the City of México, as an example of how we address the relationship between racism, blackness and resistance in the feminist spaces.

Refreshments will be served
Open to All

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