Comadreo Decidida por la VIHDA – The Gossiping of Those Fighting to Live | Activity
Comadreo Decidida por la VIHDA – The Gossiping of Those Fighting to Live offers a meeting place open to the public as part of the Open PEI scheme, where Yaneth del Pilar Valencia Lerma will be sharing her experience as an Afro-Colombian leader defending the rights of women, girls and people living with HIV in south-western Colombia.
Her work articulates community action, popular research methodologies and political impact in order to highlight structural inequalities and foster access to health, racial justice and gender equality, in particular from the point of view of the Global South.
The activity will take the form of a community hot chocolate event aimed at raising awareness of HIV, breaking down stigmas and strengthening networks of care. This event draws on previous processes run with participants in the PEI, where methodologies were used such as quilombo communities, spaces of memory, collective learning and transmission of knowledge, organized by the Asociación Lila Mujer, an association of eastern Cali. In this context, comadreo or gossiping is seen as a political, affective and collective practice that stands for life, resistance and rebuilding the community in the face of structural violence.
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Yaneth del Pilar Valencia Lerma is an Afro-Columbian community leader from the Aguablanca district in Cali, known for her work defending the rights of women, girls and people living with HIV in highly vulnerable circumstances in south-western Columbia. She is founder and director of the Lila Mujer association, through which she supports the community process of support, political action and education in health and sexual and reproductive rights. She works in a range of organizations, including the Country Coordinating Mechanism for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Movement (MLCM+), the Municipal Women’s Committee of Cali and different community networks in the eastern part of the city. She also takes part in schemes like Baobab and in UNFPA programs. She is currently part of the protection program for human rights activists run by the Catalan bodies CCAR and ACCD, together with Lina Vanesa López Ortiz, of the association Encuentro Pazífico Barcelona.
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