About the event
Dia de Sol (Diasporas Decolonizing in Solidarity) presented a zoom panel for Earth week on April 23, 2021. The panel featured Lily Mendoza from the Center for Babaylan Studies (CFBS), Nazka Serrano, a Kichwa Warmi community organizer and story keeper, Mare Advertencia Lirika, a Zapotec rapper, feminist, and migrant from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Naawéiyaa Austin Tagaba, a basket weaver, screen printer, musician, language learner and teacher from Native Movement Alaska.
Panelists discussed language revitalization, land defense and climate justice, Indigenous feminism, oral traditions, and decolonization.
Dia de Sol was a collaboration with Shirley Aparicio & Ashley Lituma and our wonderful mentor Abigail Perez Aguilera.
Watch this short clip from Lily Mendoza's section of the panel!
Meet the organizers
