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Conceição Evaristo: Escrevivência, living memory and resistance
Conceição Evaristo coined “escrevivência,” turning her own life and the collective memory of Black Brazilian women into literature they author themselves. A look at her path, her ideas, and why narrative equity starts with who gets to tell the story.
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Beyond the North Star: Women of the South Rewriting Freedom
Lélia Gonzalez, Lilla Watson, Nawal El Saadawi, Amina Mama, Julia Suryakusuma, Kamla Bhasin and Rita Segato: women of the Global South who see freedom not as a gift, but as something reclaimed.
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Arundhati Roy: Another World Is Breathing for The Activist Who Refuses Silence
Arundhati Roy is a writer and activist who has faced prison, sedition charges, and state repression for speaking truth to power. This OGA Voices feature explores her fearless activism and her vision of another world already breathing among us.
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“We’re All Human”, and Why That’s Not Enough: on power, protection, and how centering silenced voices is not exclusion
This article is not an accusation. It is an invitation to look more closely at how systems shape our lives, and why intentional care for historically silenced voices is necessary, not divisive.
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Anastácio Peralta: spiritual technologies in service of life and joy
For Anastácio Peralta, the seed carries memory, the farm is a school, and prayer is technology. An invitation to rethink what we call science, care, and sustainability, based on Guarani Kaiowá knowledge.
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The Map of Sovereignty: Reclaiming Indigenous Names to Avoid Erasure
To name is to summon into being. To rename is to assert dominion.
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.
Lilla Watson (Indigenous Murri Elder of the First Nations of Sahul Continent, 1970)
