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Bibiana Collado and Fatima Ouassak in conversation with Yael Weiss

South to North Conversations

Querétaro 2025, 

«There is only one mother», as the saying goes, but there are many different motherhoods. Such as one of the characters in Yeguas exhaustas by Bibiana Collado (Spain), a mother whose fingers are stiff from work, in a novel about exhausted mothers; or that motherhood that never comes in Chispitas de carne. Fatima Ouassak (France), in La puissance des mères, proposes that mothers can become a new revolutionary subject, able to challenge institutional violence and transform fear into resistance. From a force for peace to a threat to the established order.

Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available

Bibiana Collado and Fatima Ouassak in conversation with Yael Weiss