
Diana Vargas Guzmán is a Aymara-Woman* from Bolivia. Her activism is shaped by the concept of "antipatriarchal communitary feminism" an organization based on the idea of the community. Their work resists pathriarchy, neoliberalism, colonialism and racism on different levels, that she explains to us in this episode. We recorded the interview in September 2020 and had a chance to discuss topics like the education system in Bolivia, how colonialism worked and works in Bolivia, which are the consequences, about the actual covid 19 crisis and how they started their political work.
*The indigenous South American Aymara people are mainly populated in Bolivia on the Altiplano, a highland of the Andes. During the colonial decade, they were forced by Spanish invasion forces to resettle, which purpose was to prevent a affiliation of the indigenous population, from which resistance against the colonial masters could have developed.