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Cátedra de Mujeres Negras Ancestrales: Emancipatory Writings w/ Special Guest Yolanda Arroyo-Pizarro

The Afro Puerto Rican writer Yolanda Arroyo-Pizarro, author of Negras (2012), Pelo bueno (2018), Afrofeministamente (2020), among other internationally recognized books, shares about her project Cátedra de Mujeres Negras Ancestrales. Through Cátedra, women, and stories of Black marronage are visible, contributing to the reparation, healing, and Afro Puerto Rican contemporary emancipation. Arroyo-Pizarro will share fragments of the books produced under the Cátedra, and will provide a space for emancipatory writing among the attendees to the Virtual Latinx Speaker Series 2021.

About Yolanda Arroyo-Pizarro:
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro is an award-winning Puerto Rican novelist, short story writer and essayist. Arroyo frequently writes about LGBT issues in her work and has participated with other writers and activists in the LGBTQIA+ and African-descent communities in conferences and symposia held in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela. Arroyo Pizarro has been published in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Panama, Guatemala, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Denmark, Hungary, and France.

Campus Partner: College of Ethnic Studies - Latina/Latino Studies

Apr 21, 2021 04:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)