"Meditation Is Not A Way Of Making Your Mind Quiet. It Is A Way Of Entering Into The Quiet That Is Already

YES! 

So I’m done.

Beautiful documentary! Vivan los pueblos afro-descendientes de Latino America y todos los lugares en el mundo. 

"Así somos: Afro Identities in the Coast"

The Coast of the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guerrero have the highest population of afro-descendants in the entire country. This documentary was created because the people from the coast of Oaxaca requested that I film our talks on identity and blackness. The recordings take place in the towns of Charco Redondo and Chacahua, both in Oaxaca.

This is something I put together last minute because I had no intention of making a documentary. It’s really basic but I wish only to give the people from the Coast representation as invisibilization of the Black race in Mexico is common. Rarely does someone think about Mexico when they think of the African diaspora, even though more enslaved Africans went to Mexico and Perú combined than the United States. 

This documentary is intended to bring awareness of the African diaspora in Mexico and to help begin conversations on identity and blackness. 

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"Así somos los Negros."

La Costa de los estados mexicanos de Guerrero y Oaxaca tienen la población más alta de afrodescendientes en todo la República. Este documental fue creado porque la gente de la Costa de Oaxaca me pidieron que grabe nuestras platicas de la identidad y la negritud.Este trabajo fue realizado en los pueblos de Charco Redondo y Chacahua, ambos en el estado de Oaxaca. 

Esto lo realicé al último minuto porque no tenía ningún intención de elaborar un documental. Mi intención con este trabajo es de darle representación a la gente Negra del la Costa que son invisibilizadas. Raramente uno piensa de México cuando piensa de la diáspora africana aunque más africanos esclavizadas fueron a México y Perú que los Estados Unidos. 

Este documental es para crear conciencia de la diaspora africana en México y para desarrollar las temas de la identidad y la negritud.

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Mothers

for angela and gloria and

assata and leila and

marsha and yuri and 

the countless unnamed

for the women I was taught not to remember

(a work in progress plz send suggestions this way)

Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.

Charlotte Eriksson (via petrichour)

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