Decolonial feminism

An approach to organizational expressions of women in Colombia

Abstract

This reflection article is developed based on the German seminar Decolonial Feminism: contributions to the strengthening of the women’s social movement in Colombia from 2015 to 2020, which emphasizes on the experiences of women’s social movements in the country and whose basis is decolonial feminism. Initially, the problem statement is presented; this section offers some key theoretical elements and the objective of the academic process executed. Next, the development of the research is presented through analytical, interpretative and critical perspectives, as well as the theoretical inquiries and the knowledge from the orality of some women belonging to collectivities, who participated in the conversation Decolonial Feminism: experiences and narratives of organizational expressions of women in Colombia; this brought together in dialogue a group of people who reflected their lifestyles and ancestral teachings. In such, a way that, the research findings are presented, in which contradictions against the initial approaches of the project are evidenced, analyzing, rethinking and deconstructing
imaginaries that generate violence and, finally, the main conclusions that reveal the need to recognize and validate the subalternized knowledge and practices as other non-hegemonic ways of doing politics.