This panel will discuss convergences in how Black and Indigenous ways of knowing are employed in medicinal and religious practices that threaten to dismantle the colonial regimes of knowledge that have defined these practices as witchcraft, in order to denigrate and eradicate them.
Norell Martinez will present a discussion of Bruja Feminism, which will explore the interrelation of witchcraft and revolt among the enslaved and dispossessed in varying regional locales, and the reclamation of the Bruja as a decolonial figure today.
Icaro Ferraz Vidal Jr. will share his investigation of the relationships between contemporary Brazilian artistic production and traditional Afro-Amerindian rituals and practices that challenge "colonial epistemicide".
Renee Monchalin will trace the connection between abortion stigma and the outlawing of Indigenous knowledge of abortifacient medicine and argues that the reassertion of Indigenous healing knowledge will change how abortion is perceived.
Please Note: This event will be recorded.
This panel will discuss convergences in how Black and Indigenous ways of knowing are employed in medicinal and religious practices that threaten to dismantle the colonial regimes of knowledge that have defined these practices as witchcraft, in order to denigrate and eradicate them.
Norell Martinez will present a discussion of Bruja Feminism, which will explore the interrelation of witchcraft and revolt among the enslaved and dispossessed in varying regional locales, and the reclamation of the Bruja as a decolonial figure today.
Icaro Ferraz Vidal Jr. will share his investigation of the relationships between contemporary Brazilian artistic production and traditional Afro-Amerindian rituals and practices that challenge "colonial epistemicide".
Renee Monchalin will trace the connection between abortion stigma and the outlawing of Indigenous knowledge of abortifacient medicine and argues that the reassertion of Indigenous healing knowledge will change how abortion is perceived.
Please Note: This event will be recorded.