Women's Empowering Roles

In honor of National Women’s Month, Youth Voices Transforming Communities and the Afro Latino Institute in collaboration with GALA Hispanic Theatre, coordinated a multicultural/generational conversation discussing women empowerment, entitled: “Conversation Series, Part II: EMPOWER “Educating Many People on Women’s Empowering Roles”.

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Embracing multifaceted identities as Afro-Latinos/as/xs, woven from African and colonial European legacies, we must confront the reality that some within our cultural community, often due to the miseducation ingrained in Eurocentric systems, reinforce anti-Black practices like colorism and discrimination.  Studies estimate Afro-descendants in Latin America to number approximately 250 million, highlighting the vastness and importance of this struggle. This event delves into these nuanced experiences, exploring how Afro-Latino/a/xs navigate these intersecting identities to forge a complete sense of self and center Blackness within our lived realities and how we combat these biases through education, representation, and dismantling Eurocentric power structure.