Fabian Villegas - Friday Talks 18 February 2022
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Fabian Villegas Writer, journalist, spoken word artist, Scholar and Researcher in South epistemologies, Decolonial thoughts and Racial Studies, born in Mexico City. Geopolitics, intersectionality, epistemologies of communication and testimonial literature are fundamental topics addressed in his body of work.
From 2007 to date, he has given multiple conferences, seminars, lectures and workshops in multiple universities, academic, cultural and community centers in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatemala, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Belize, Panama, Cuba, Uruguay, France, Spain, El Salvador and E.U.
Member of the Facciónlatina independent journalism and communication network, which articulates 17 countries, 32 groups and 200 members from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Co-founder of "Contranarrativas", a horizontal and collaborative project of knowledge production, cultural management and free communication, committed to the visibility, dissemination and production of epistemologies, narratives and decolonial and peripheral aesthetics of the global South.
Co-founder of the global Hip Hop and cultural production collective
Quilomboarte. Quilomboarte is a creative laboratory of artists, musicians,
filmmakers, writers, activists who articulate different cultural practices on
the decolonial and racialized epistemologies in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Founder of Contranarrativas’ sub project, "Aula Pública", which is a
pedagogical space that seeks to decentralize the production of knowledge
through seminars, workshops, lectures, webseminars, on Global South Studies,
racism, decolonial perspective that has articulated around 240 participants
from 41 countries in America, Europe and Africa.
In July 2007, together with Bocafloja, a multidisciplinary artist, poet
and a international Hip Hop exponent, he co-wrote the book "ImaRginación: Hip hop as an excess of the
political".
In 2012 with Algarabía project he published the Anthology of oral history and
testimonial literature "Metaphors of Decoloniality.
In December of 2014 he published his first book of narrative and creative essay entitled "En Blanco y Prieto, Geopolitical Itinerary of Decoloniality". Presented in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Belize, the United States and Brazil.
In October 2015, the International Poetry Festival of Costa Rica, published his first Spoken Word book, “Mascarada, corpo-políticas y lenguajes de madera”.
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