After borders
This two-day event co-curated by Maria Galindo and La Candidate Sans-Papiers brings together women from formerly colonised countries for an international gathering aimed at collectively staging, from situated knowledge of colonial legacies in Europe, the transformative power of alliances against current migration policies.
Engaged citizens, community members and associations are invited to participate in workshops, discussions, and public talks. The event is open to the public and will culminate in an open public assembly with staged interventions. Interested parties can register for one or all sessions.
Event sessions
Saturday 20 June
Workshop - 10.00-13.00 - EN - Max. 20 participants
A co-writing workshop on a new migration path.
Co-curator: Maria Galindo. With: Adilia de las Mercedes
Performative Assembly - 14.30-17.30 - EN-ES-FR - Max. 90 participants
A facilitated public assembly with performative incursions, reading European colonial legacies through current migration policies and proving the transformative potential of alliances.
Co-curator: La Candidate Sans-Papiers. With: Territorio Domestico, Comisión de migración y antirracismo del Movimiento 8M, Ministère du Care, Collecti.e.f 8 Maars. Guests: Maria Galindo and Rita Segato. Moderated by: La Laboratoria.
Sunday 21 June
Public talk & roundtable - 15.00-18.00 - EN-ES-FR. Max. 90 participants.
Starting with a performance by Maria Galindo, the talk and roundtable will address gender, migration and exploitation.
Co-curator: Maria Galindo. With: Rita Laura Segato & Adilia de las Mercedes. Guests: La Candidate Sans-Papiers.
La Candidate Sans-Papiers d’Europe Europe's first undocumented candidate ran in the 2024 Brussels municipal elections as a fictional political figure, to support the demand for regularisation of hundreds of thousands of migrant citizens. Through a prefigurative artistic strategy — one that enacts and embodies desired futures rather than simply demanding them — the Candidate Sans-Papiers d’Europe shifts the narrative away from victimization, grounding it instead in the dignified, first-person perspectives of those most concerned. Maria Galindo Maria Galindo is a Bolivian feminist activist, writer, performer, and co-founder of the anarcho-feminist collective Mujeres Creando. Her work combines political activism, public intervention, radio, performance, and writing to challenge patriarchy, coloniality, racism, neoliberalism, and institutional forms of power. Through a radical and deeply situated feminist practice rooted in Latin American social struggles, Galindo has become one of the most influential voices in contemporary decolonial and anti-patriarchal thought.
