Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer, interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author of four books and dozens of essays and interviews on environmental media, decolonial theory and praxis, queer femme and creative and embodied research methods and what she deems as “antidotes to the colonial Anthropocene.”
Highlights
Chuquicamata, (Mousse, 2024). An excerpt from an upcoming novel.
In an intimate letter to Earth, Madre Tierra, Pachamama, Gómez-Barris mourns the colonial and capitalist-induced harms to the planet, while steeling our resolve for fierce resistance to ecocide.
As part of a longer project on sea edges and coloniality, this essay studies ways of being that exceed the human, nonhuman, and colonial divide, and that find historical nodes of power and affective density at the boundaries of the Americas oceanic.
Images from Chile
Patio 29 at the Santiago General Cemetery
The Mapocho River, June 22, 2005.
A view from Puente Bulnes on the Mapocho River, June 18, 2002
Viviana Díaz at Villa Grimaldi Peace Park, shown with a picture of her disappeared father, June 22, 2002
Gathering at Villa Grimaldi Peace Park
Images from Bolivia
Virgen de los Deseos, restaurant and cultural space, La Paz
Virgen de los Deseos, restaurant and cultural space, La Paz
Street art, La Paz
radiodeseo.com
Biblioteca Inca, Cochabamba
Landscape, Potosí
Landscape, Potosí
Lake Titicaca