21/03/2024 Usufructuaries of earth Micro-Resistances: An Interview with Samanta Arango Orozco Marwa Arsanios, Samanta Arango Orozco In the context of Usufructuaries of earth, which calls for a relationship of usufruct with the earth—making “use” of its offers without exhaustion or greed—this interview between artist Marwa Arsanios and Grupo Semillas member Samanta Arango Orozco highlights Indigenous communities’ strategies that “entail ways to inhabit [their] territory without affecting it intensely and in ways that protect it . . .” Through traditional and intergenerational knowledge around the seeds and lands of the region, its people, and particularly, its women, have resisted very powerful groups and social actors—reconnecting, via generous seed-gifting, territories that had previously been separated by conflict.
15/03/2024 Usufructuaries of earth Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back Pelşîn Tolhildan “We are in the siege of a nature that has been hurt, divided, defiled, poisoned, harmed, and made to bleed,” writes Pelşîn Tolhildan, member of the Kurdish Women’s Movement. Responding to a planetary ecology which has been manipulated and irreparably damaged by humankind, “Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back” gives animacy and agency to nature. It […]
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