Gabriela Rios

This talk will look at the ways in which women in Latin America have utilized submerged feminine indigenous knowledge to reclaim, reshape, and negotiate what it means to be an indigenous woman through embodied genres of knowledge production like poetry and the lucha libre (wrestling).ÌýI will show that through reclaiming and activating repressed, indigenous forms of knowledge, these women are challenging the ways in which coloniality has reduced indigeneity and indigenous kinship to forms that can be legible only through blood quantum and heteronormativity. In doing so, they stretch, transform, and create new genres of composing that enable the creation of new forms of indigenous feminine consciousness that manifest as (digital) brujas and "Cholitas luchadoras" (Fighting Cholitas).