Geraldine

An Emberá trans activist, in a comic made with an Emberá community in Antioquia.

Format: Comic
Year: 2021
Published by: Goethe-Institut, Movements and Moments
Languages: Spanish, English, Emberá

About

Geraldine Gutiérrez Piedrahita is a trans woman of the Emberá Chamí Dojura community in Chigorodó, Antioquia, who fights for the rights of Indigenous LGBT people in Colombia. The comic was made with an Emberá community in Antioquia.

Her story comes from a territory the country forgets. We wanted it read in her own language as well as ours.

Read in Spanish Read in English Read in Emberá

The comic

Black-and-white comic page with city scenes and Spanish narration

White Spanish handwritten narration on a black comic panel

White Emberá handwritten narration on a black comic panel

Publication context

Movements and Moments lettering assembled from illustrated human forms

Grid of illustrated book covers on a publication webpage

Collaborative research

Participants drawing on paper while gathered on the floor

Workshop participants gathered around a large paper sheet

Group standing in a circle inside a wooden meeting room

Two workshop participants drawing together on sheets of paper

Participant drawing on paper while seated with others

People gathered outside a wooden house on a grassy clearing

Close-up of a participant drawing with coloured pencils nearby

Overhead view of a group drawing together around scattered materials

Grant

Movements and Moments grant, Goethe-Institut: one of 16 stories from 14 countries in an anthology of comics from the Global South

Presented

Literaturhaus Basel, Switzerland

Press

Hacemos Memoria, 2022
Altais Cómics
Goethe-Institut, interview
Wayka

Credits

Story and art: Alejandra Pérez Torres and Catalina Vásquez Salazar

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