International Day of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean, and Diaspora Women Reading List
25th July is a day to honour the trajectories of resistance of Black Latin American and Caribbean feminists. Today we celebrate the International Day of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean, and Diaspora Women.
In 1992, the 1st Meeting of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women took place in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, and from there the network of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women was organised.
Throughout July, all over the region, the power of the political and intellectual action of Black women is being celebrated. Throughout history, Latin America and the Caribbean have been the cradle of theoretical frameworks that have revolutionised feminist and Black theory, centering the experiences of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women as ‘amefrican’ women, as coined by Brazilian Black feminist Lélia Gonzalez.