Ending Violence Against Women: Video Transcript
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Why is this training important to you?
Yes, well, this is a very important topic for me, because I grew up in Salvador, and in a context where violence against women was very much normalized.
Like a thing that just happened, and later on in life I had the opportunity to study and pursue a Phd Program where I dedicated all my energy, my passion, and my labor to understand right what are the factors Why is it violence against women is so prominent globally, and how each context has its own manifestation of this right?
I think deep knowledge and understanding how different forms of violence intersect it's key to really advocate for a world where we can heal collectively from this one that is in my mind.
Is violence that we all share it, because violence against women is a global issue.
2. What is unique about your training?
Well, I think this training is gonna be fun to start with.I think it has different perspectives. It has the different forms of knowing, of knowledge. It has a component that is very specific about concepts, terms that come from academic work.
but also it has a very transnational component. We're gonna see how violence against women is a global issue that has very specific context oriented things that can help us build right and address that issue and find solutions.
It will also be a space to creatively and collectively find solutions and to think about what would this world look like without violence against women being so normalized and so common.
So the course will create awareness, but it also has this artistic component. I'm a poet and I like creative writing. I'm a storyteller, too. I think we all have very important histories,
I think most people think violence against women is like a women's issue or feminist issue, but honestly. Violence against women is an issue that Is all of us. It's often interrelated with order forms of violence: economic, political, social, identity. It's very much related to other forms. It affects all of us and we all have a role to play.
and I think it's just wonderful when people are able to connect and think creatively. About issues that affect all of us. And hopefully, we can find, you know, a collective way to apply this knowledge to our own contexts.
3. What does it mean to be an artivist?
It started with me doing the Phd and writing about these issues. But it's something that kind of just was born out of my experience, because I worked and learned from many women who are artists.
They are performance artists, theater artists, writers, you know, people who really find a way to express themselves, but from a very socially aware and conceptual background. People who are talking about violence, not only because they've lived it, but also because they know it's a social problem or a social issue. And so I kind of learned that from them, as I was doing research, but also I've always had this need to use art in different ways.
Artivism is this term that really illustrates how we can use art as a way to create social awareness into, I like to say, to feed this spirit of the struggle.
So feeling people's souls to take action and transform their realities, their lives, either at the personal level, collective level and even global.