… with Yto
Yto speaks about being Amazigh – Indigenous to northern Africa, about languages, and it’s contextualisation within the African Continent and history.
… with அவ்ரீனா பிரபலா-ஜாஸ்லின் (Avrina Prabala-Joslin)
Avrina speaks about growing up in Tamil Nadu, about colorism, castism and duty. But also about being brave, strong and proudly Tamil.
அவ்ரீனா பிரபலா-ஜாஸ்லின் / avrina prabala-joslin (born 1992, Tamil Nadu) writes fiction and poetry on places, beings and times. avrina won the Short Fiction / University of Essex International Short Story Prize 2021 and has works nominated for the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, Berlin Writing Prize and the Desperate Literature Fiction Prize. A bardic poet, avrina has read works around the globe and is one of the 2024 Literature Fellows of the Berlin Senate for Culture. Contact via www.avrinajos.net
… with Karla Pinto
Karla speaks about Blackness, Black Identity and her Cape Verdean context and belonging.
Karla Pinto is a Black Queer engaged in antidiscrimination work such as anti-racism, gender liberation and environment justices. She is a speaker and empowerment trainer conducting workshops to prevent and combat violence based on gender, race and anti-Blackness. Founder of Rabelades farm, Black queer led agroecological project for marginalized communities have access to land, farm, heal and reconnect with nature. She is also interested in community healing spaces and provides workshops on movement and breathing, herbalism and spirituality …
