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By CS Staff
On June 7-9, 2024, the 2024 Indigenous Women Radio Broadcasters Exchange took place in Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico. The event was attended by 22 women communicators from Puebla, Morelos, Guerrero, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, and Oaxaca.
My name is Celia Flor Díaz Pérez, and I am a Maya Tsotsil woman from Los Altos de Chiapas, of the Chamo' culture. I will be 35 years old in April. I introduce myself as Celia Nichim (which means flower in Tsotsil) in some places that do not require my legal name since my surname is part of the colonial imposition.
Diana Pastor (maya k’iche’), CS staff
A group of women dance and sing around the fire. The atmosphere is one of camaraderie and joy. In addition to singing and dancing, they play games, paint tattoos, and offer words of gratitude to the land and to themselves for having shared knowledge and experiences in recent days to continue to protect their territories. The feeling is one of bittersweetness, but also of satisfaction.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
