Geraldine Gutiérrez Piedrahita is a 27-year old trans woman belonging to the Emberá Chami Dojura Indigenous community in Chigorodó, Antioquia, Colombia. She describes herself as a strong woman who fights for the rights of the LGBT Indigenous community in Colombia. She is also a great inspiration for the activists of the present and the future. This project, besides making Geraldine’s story visible, seeks to give an account of the plurality of meanings about what we as a society have been, are, and will be.
By Alejandra Pérez Torres and Catalina Vásquez Salazar
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.
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 recognized and known worldwide.
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 recognized and known worldwide.
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