Against coloniality there is no antidote, but resistance. This is a gathering of diverse reflective contributions that share a character as transformative practices (in the words of Sylvia Marcos). Its critical basis is the decolonial feminisms that, with their – fine and corrosive – critical and sentient apparatuses, widen the cracks in the hegemonic power constructs to observe reality in other latitudes.
The main objective is to reinscribe the political in everyday life to read it from the decolonial perspective. It is for this purpose that concepts such as the coloniality of the genre, formulated by María Lugones —and taken up in this compilation by Breny Mendoza—, or the schizophrenia of subalternity, coined by Pastora Filigrana, are presented, which points out the incongruity that denies rights to gypsy culture but uses it as a flag in the Spanish tourist market.
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