116. Braiding

Colonial history is a history of violence and exploitation: of bodies, of lands, of landscapes, of seeds imposed by force, inside and outside, and of sown fields. It is a story that begins far back in time and that reaches to today taking many forms: some hide, others disguise themselves and some even show themselves as they are. Through a poetic dialogue with three voices, this text weaves the story of yesterday and today of colonialism, exposing it in its complexity of forms, wounds and time.

Lina Meruane, Cristina Rivera Garza and Gabriela Wiener are three fundamental voices in the current literary scene and they dialogue in this book based on their poems, sharing their thoughts and experience regarding coloniality and violence.

My sisters / Brown bitches / Loveless creatures / Dispossessed by our own hand / We strip ourselves of everything / Preventively [Gabriela Wiener]

We see the state in the walls, / tax collectors, and officials. / Hunger. / Malnutrition. We feel the state / in slavery [Cristina Rivera Garza]

Womanhood is not / being a body / having a body / losing a body [Lina Meruane]

 

 

Authors: Gabriela Wiener, Cristina Rivera Garza, Lina Meruane

Related to Biennial of Thought 2022