Escuela Feminista Guadalupe Zapata: experiences of an emerging feminist collective Escuela Feminista Guadalupe Zapata de la ciudad de Pareira: experiencias de un colectivo feminista en emergencia

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the experience of a feminist collective that emerged in the city of Pereira in 2018, the “Escuela Feminista Guadalupe Zapata”, with the intention of mobilizing reflections and learning about feminist theories and practices that contribute to the strengthening of subjects (women, men, and non-binary people) to challenge and deconstruct discourses and practices that reproduce the patriarchal system. In the article we discuss the emergence of the Escuela in an intermediate city and its relationship with the development of the feminist / women's movement in Nuestramérica and in Colombia. We assume academic and ethical-political positions, with the understanding of the imminent need to link academia and feminist praxis in a context in which gender-based violence persists and manifests itself in feminicides, sexual violence, harassment, among others. We take the knowledge of feminist methodologies in which reflection and affection are involved for action, advocacy and the transformations to which we aspire. At the end, we present the main challenges of the School on the local stage and facing national and Latin American problems, in which articulation with other organizations and groups is necessary to continue resisting patriarchy and the matrix of domination gender-class-race-sexuality.