Geraldine
An illustrated profile of Geraldine Gutiérrez Piedrahita.
Geraldine Gutiérrez Piedrahita is an Emberá Chamí trans woman and activist from Chigorodó, Antioquia. Alejandra Pérez Torres and I co-created this comic about her life and her work for the rights of Indigenous LGBT people.
- Role
- Illustration
- Year
- 2021
- Category
- Books & publishing
Goethe-Institut’s project ‘Movements and Moments’ sheds light on Indigenous feminist activism from the Global South in the form of comics. Geraldine was shortlisted among 16 other stories from 14 countries around the Global South that convey major narratives on ecological activism, the fight for education, and the struggle for the rights of LGBTIQA+ people in the form of comics.
From the creators’ interview for Goethe-Institut Why does the world need to learn more about your story’s protagonist? Because we find in Geraldine, the protagonist of our story, a woman with a history that inspires many young activists. We believe that her struggle, coming from a forgotten territory with a strong presence of illegal and armed forces, being isolated by her own community before she claimed her rights and her empowerment to leave the countryside and come to the city, is a truly remarkable story of freedom in a country like Colombia. Her activism deserves to be recognised and known worldwide.
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Credits
- Authors
- Alejandra Pérez Torres and Catalina Vásquez Salazar
