Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega 2023. A Portrait of Marielle: Animation, Artivism and Intersectional Feminism in a Journey from Fear to Hope. in: Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega (ed.) Media Activism, Artivism and the Fight Against Marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South Communication Routledge.
| Chapter title | A Portrait of Marielle: Animation, Artivism and Intersectional Feminism in a Journey from Fear to Hope |
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| Authors | Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega |
| Editors | Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega |
| Abstract | Chapter 5 demonstrates how artists use animation to work with other Global South artists and activists, developing relations and practices for challenging repression, and transforming fearful experiences into a shared repertoire of resistance practice and languages. The chapter adopts theoretical perspectives from intersectional feminism and, particularly, from the work of Black Brazilian female authors. Medrado and Rega describe the experience of conducting the animation workshop, “A Portrait of Marielle”, produced with Kenyan artivists about the Brazilian Human Rights activist and politician Marielle Franco who was killed in her car with her driver in March 2018. The story and the legacy of this Black woman represent a symbolic glue between disenfranchised communities in Brazil and Kenya in their fights against oppression. The chapter argues that artivism is transformative. Animation, with its ability to put images into motion, emerges as an excellent tool for such transformations. By engaging in dialogue with each other and, by extension, with the Brazilian activists, participants in the workshop were able to transform fear into hope. The artists were also able to witness their own transformations – from artists to artivists – through the establishment of affective connections with marginalised peoples across the Ocean. |
| Book title | Media Activism, Artivism and the Fight Against Marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South Communication |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 05 Apr 2023 |
| ISBN | 9781003215103 |
| 9781032080833 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003215103-6 |
| Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003215103-6 |