Mónica Michelena: “We Are Charrúa Women: From Negation to Re-Existence in Our Body-Territory”
Mónica Michelena: “We Are Charrúa Women: From Negation to Re-Existence in Our Body-Territory”
UCSB and UCSD have joined together to welcome Mónica Michelena, Secretary of the Charrúa Nation's Council and former Advisor on Indigenous Affairs for Uruguay's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2014-18). Charrúa women have gone through dispossession, exclusion, and negation that left marks on their collective memory and body-territory. This genocidal process did not end in 19th-century […]
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