Latinx Memories

Somatic Laboratory & Pedagogies of Reexistance

Somatic Laboratory - Latinx Memories is rooted in intersectional, anti-discriminatory and decolonial practices, seeking to build critical educational frameworks through somatics and emancipatory approaches to embodied knowledge.

Supporting individual and collective wellbeing in the Trans*Latinx community, with special focus on asylum seekers living in NL, the project is organized together with Papaya Kuir, a lesbotransfeminist collective of migrants and refugees from Latin America and the spanish-speaking Caribbean, with the aim to center justice and the ethics/politics of care, questioning socio-political reproduction of embodied colonial violence.

Through practical workshops, based on touch, image-making, listening, voicing and dancing, the participants explore the relation of identity, play and transformation and different feeling-thinking experiences of transitioning, migratory and self-perception processes.

Focusing in how the knowledge of resistance and resilience, agitation and grounding, indignation and regeneration, form a corporal and socio-political infrastructure, serving as a network of resistance that respects multiplicity.

Our aim to research how collectively build a memory of self-preservation, resurgence and affective resistance. 

Somatic Laboratory - Trans*latinx Memories coordinators are Paula Montecinos and Flavia Pinheiro fellows at DAS THIRD. This project is supported by Papaya Kuir, Platform 2025, ATD Lectoraat and Quality funding one-off grant