Indigenous FeminismVideos

Aymara feminist thinker Julieta Paredes examines patriarchy as a historical relation and asks how shared life, bodies and community can become sites of transformation.

An IIS-UNAM gathering brings Indigenous and Afro-Mexican voices into conversation about movements, colonial memory and women’s political participation in contemporary Mexico.

Maya Q’eqchi’ and Xinka feminist and healer Lorena Cabnal connects bodily autonomy and land defense with collective healing and women’s political agency.

Kichwa activist Nina Gualinga connects Amazon defense to Indigenous women’s leadership and to the gendered intimidation faced by those who protect territory from extraction.

Anishinaabe attorney and organizer Tara Houska places resistance to the Standing Rock pipeline in a longer history of Indigenous land, sovereignty and cultural continuance, challenging accounts that reduce environmental struggle to a single protest.