AUTHOR(S)

Presentation: Diego Prieto Olivares – Authors: Fabi Alzate Alzate – Anthony Nabetse
Contreras – Esneider Córdoba Nagles – Teylor Gutiérrez – Lucía Jiménez – Omar Olvera
Calderón – Diego Prieto Olivares – Gladys Sarmiento Galvis – Ruby Ashley Rose Queen.

SUMMARY

The very act of writing becomes an act of resistance, of survival, if it comes from a
subjectivity that has been rejected and repressed for a long time. When I accepted the challenge of directing
a playwriting and theater workshop with the LGBTIQ+ migrant population I knew it would be a huge
challenge, that it would have huge obstacles and a lot of work ahead of it. But I also knew that it was something
absolutely necessary. Not only because it was an epistemological gap that needed to be filled
within the TransMigrARTS program, but also because I wanted to prove how important the
act of writing was when you are part of a migrant population, both geographically and
in terms of sexual and gender diversity. I myself am part of this population and the act of writing
has been at the same time a liberation and a necessity coming from the deepest part of my
being. I needed to see what could be achieved when other migrant and LGBTIQ+
people sat down to write together.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.59486/NAYE2636

COMPLETE DISCHARGE