Hay Festival Arequipa 2022 – Gender

Lindsey Hilsum (United Kingdom) has reported on conflicts and refugee movements in the Ukraine, Syria, Mali, Iraq, Palestine, Libya and Kosovo and has recently covered the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan. She was the only foreign English-speaking correspondent in Rwanda when the genocide began. A press and television journalist, a regular contributor to outlets such as The Guardian, The Observer and Granta, in 2019 she published In Extremis, a biography of the war correspondent Marie Colvin. Winner of numerous awards, she will talk about her work, career and experiences with Christiane Félip Vidal, author of Mujeres en conflictos.

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Everyone has their own place from which they speak, something that needs to be treated with judgement, responsibility and respect. In Lugar de fala, the philosopher and activist Djamila Ribeiro (Brazil) offers a range of rich and diverse reflections on the violences that surround the place that black writers express themselves from, particularly affecting women, and which cause the invisibilization of the knowledge that arises outside of Eurocentric logics. In this conversation with Rocío Ferreira, the author will talk about the concepts employed by racialized authors in order to defend the right to a dignified existence, and to their own voices.

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The British illustrator Karrie Fransman has worked with media outlets including The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, The Telegraph, BBC, The New Statesman and the Arts Council. Together with her partner, Jonathan Plackett, Fransman has created the acclaimed Gender Swapped Fairy Tales (2021) and Gender Swapped Greek Myths (2022), which re-write some of the great classics of children’s fiction and Greek mythology, changing the gender of the characters. These authors will introduce us to the story of a king who pricks his finger while sewing; of Icara and her mother, who fly too close to the sun; of a heroine who, while roaming the high seas trying to get home, is seduced by male sirens, and much more. Fransman will talk to the BBC journalist Alejandro Millán.

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