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# _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

![Geraldine — opening image](/media/responsive/1e2e31f0e42806e8-960.webp)

## 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](https://www.goethe.de/resources/files/pdf259/geraldine_fa_online_es_za-v1.pdf)[Read in English](https://www.goethe.de/resources/files/pdf259/geraldine_fa_online_en_za-v1.pdf)[Read in Emberá](https://www.goethe.de/resources/files/pdf259/geraldine_fa_online_embera_za-v1.pdf)

## The comic

3 images

![Black-and-white comic page with city scenes and Spanish narration](/media/responsive/d23bd082e50dad8d-960.webp)

## Publication context

2 images

![Movements and Moments lettering assembled from illustrated human forms](/media/responsive/74fcc838783df124-960.webp)

## Collaborative research

8 images

![Participants drawing on paper while gathered on the floor](/media/responsive/6ae0914b0ec09954-960.webp)

## 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

[Next work Intersticios_A fragment of my first graphic novel, about solitude and transit._ ![Intersticios](/media/responsive/3db242dd319a01b7-960.webp)](https://kathiuska.com/kathiuska/intersticios/)

Source: https://kathiuska.com/kathiuska/geraldine/