Solidarities: An Electric Marronage Event
“Solidarity isn’t sharing the excess, it is sharing what we lack. We share what we are also trying to get for ourselves. Care, resources, love... ”
On Thursday May 13th at 3pm ET, the Electric Marronage hosted a conversation on the concept and practice of Solidarity, Abolition, and Relations Across Difference in and across Black, Indigenous, Pacific, Caribbean, and Asian contexts. We were honored to engage in a discussion with five activists, writers, and scholars:
Kim Tran, an organizer, and consultant who works at the intersection of social protest, race and gender
Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, a Tongan/ Oceanian (Pacific Islander) scholar, story-teller and community organizer
Shariana Ferrer-Nuñez, a Black queer feminist Puerto Rican activist, scholar and organizer, co-founder of La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción
Janey Lew, an Asian Canadian poet, scholar, and Educational Consultant of Indigenous Initiatives at the University of British Columbia
Amarilys Estrella, a scholar of race and gender within transnational movements, Black Latin American, Latinx identity, and human rights and anti-racist activism
Recording of the #ElectricSolidarities Event - May 13, 2021
“White terror brought new gods, its violence is rooted in race and gendered violence, especially rape, and severing people from the land. Rape and sexual violence of Pacific women was used as a tool of empire. ”
