Hay Festival Querétaro 2022 – Gender

The author of the essay Feminismo sin cuarto propio, included in the anthology of feminist texts Tsunami 2, and of the outstanding short story collection Perras de reserva (2022), Dahlia de la Cerda (Mexico) returns with Desde los zulos (2023), a book that combines autofiction, journalism and essay to reflect on marginal feminisms, the danger of excluding practices within the social movements and proposes a more plural and diverse view of feminism. Dahlia de la Cerda has a degree in Philosophy, was a fellow of the 2015 Aguascalientes Programme for the Stimulation of Artistic Creation and Development and was also a beneficiary of the FONCA Young Artists’ Programme in 2016 and 2018. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Morras Help Morras feminist collective. She talks to Jumko Ogata Aguilar.

Valeria Gallo studied design at the National Institute of Fine Art’s Design School. She is an animator and creator of visual narratives, illustrator of over 40 books and the author of En sus zapatos, Nunca es demasiado circo and ¿Feminismo? ¡Eso qué! This last book is a graphic novel that tells the story of Camila, a teenager who couldn’t care less about feminism, until she begins to find out about women such as Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Malala Yousafzai and many more. Coming into contact with these figures, the heroines of the history of women’s rights, makes Camila question many things in her life, and finds in feminism a tool to turn these questions into action for change, actions to create a fairer, more equal world.

Vindictas is a research and dissemination project run by the UNAM in order to promote the work of 20th-century Latin American fiction writers whose writings have been ignored by the literary canons. The collection includes the re-publication of novels written by forgotten or lost voices, as well as an anthology of short stories. Vindictas. Cuentistas latinoamericanas is a central part of this initiative, and offers a range of writings by 20 authors from different generations and places within the Hispanic world. With Lola Ancira (Mexico), a Queretaro writer and author of the prologue to Todo ángel es terrible; Rosa Beltrán (Mexico), writer and Director of the UNAM’s Cultural Dissemination department; Aroa Moreno Durán (Spain), writer, journalist and author of the prologue to Tiempo de llorar y otros relatos; and Socorro Venegas (Mexico), editor of the Vindictas anthology.

The author of the essay Feminismo sin cuarto propio, included in the anthology of feminist texts Tsunami 2, and of the outstanding short story collection Perras de reserva (2022), Dahlia de la Cerda (Mexico) returns with Desde los zulos (2023), a book that combines autofiction, journalism and essay to reflect on marginal feminisms, the danger of excluding practices within the social movements and proposes a more plural and diverse view of feminism. Dahlia de la Cerda has a degree in Philosophy, was a fellow of the 2015 Aguascalientes Programme for the Stimulation of Artistic Creation and Development and was also a beneficiary of the FONCA Young Artists’ Programme in 2016 and 2018. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Morras Help Morras feminist collective. In conversation with Claudia Ivonne Hernández.

Desahucio by Imanol Martínez (Mexico) won the 2021 José Revueltas National Youth Novel Prize. In counterpoint, the novel tells the story of the lives of Daniel and Julián. Daniel is a well-established chef who discovers that cancer is about to end it all. Meanwhile Julián, his best friend, undertakes some major projects, whose success is anything but guaranteed. Eva Piquer (Catalonia, Spain) has written 13 books, has been Literary Manager of the Thassalia publishing house and currently edits the cultural magazine Catorze. In Aterrizaje, her most recent novel, a woman overcome by mourning decides to travel to Iceland to relieve her pain. On the trip, the woman connects with a past that has been buried and evaded, and discovers a new love for life, one that she had been unwilling to let herself feel. The writer and editor Socorro Venegas received an Honorable Mention in the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz awards for her first novel La noche será negra y blanca, and she has edited the recently-published anthology, Vindictas. Cuentistas Latinoamericanas (2023). She is the author of Ceniza roja (2022), a diary in which the poetic gaze and colour of memory shows us the dark workings of mourning in a body and soul damaged by absence, waiting and searching. In conversation with David Marcial Pérez Muñoz.