Sandra Ramirez Abd’Allah-Alvarez ( Havana , December as September as 1973 ) is a researcher, writer, activist and antiracist afrofeminista Cuban blogger.
Activist in favor of the rights of women, black people and people of African descent, as well as the LGTBI community .
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 2 Publications
- 3 Publications in academic journals
- 4 Publications in paper magazines
- 5 Articles in books
- 6 Conferences and presentations
- 7 Sources
Biographical synthesis
- Degree in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Havana.
- She began activism as a volunteer for the Cuban campaign against HIV / AIDS.
- He founded the blog Negracubana had to be , the first Afrofeminist in Cuba.
- She worked for more than 10 years as an editor and journalist for the Cubaliteraria website .
- Master in Gender Studies
- Diploma in Gender and Communication at the José Martí International Institute of Journalism .
- Mention of the Melanipa Contest, convened by the Félix Varela Center, Havana, Cuba, with the essay “Rereading of Sara Gómez’s cinematographic work from feminist theory”, which is the result of my master’s thesis.
- Nominated by Deutsche Welle (Germany) as one of the best online activism blog at the BOBS-Best of Online Activism awards.
- She investigates about issues related to racism and racial discrimination in Cuba, in particular the representation in the media and in the arts of black women and men; the impact of the use of social networks on activism for sexual and reproductive rights of people with gender identities and non-heteronormative sexual orientations; women in the use of ICT , the racial variable in the censuses in Cuba, women in hip hop, among other issues.
- Founder of the Afrocubanas Group : anti-racist fighters linked to art and culture who have brought to light the book Afrocubanas: history, thought and cultural practices .
- Develops the Directory of Afrocubanas, where files are published with the life and work of women relevant to the history, science and culture of Cuba.
- In social networks, he manages several pages related to Cuba, including: For Equal Marriage in Cuba , Yo Sí TeCreo enCuba and Cuba es Afro .
Publications
Sandra Abd Allah-Alvarez Ramirez has published numerous digital and print media, including: Rebellion , Cauce , Esquife , Cuba Posible , Global Voices , Oncuba News , Cubainformación , pikara Magazine , Hypermedia Magazine , La Gaceta de Cuba , magazine Topics magazine Marea , La Jiribilla magazine , El Toque and Let’s Talk about Sex and Love .
For Cuba Posible, she coordinated the following dossiers: Thinking Cuba from rap (2017), Silences and voices: a dossier on “dislocated” women (2017), For everyone and for everyone’s good: introduction to a dossier on equal marriage in Cuba (2018) and They call her a whore: an incomplete dossier on sex work in Cuba (2018).
Sandra Abd ́Allah-Álvarez Ramírez is a member of the Black Americas Network and LASA (Latin-American Studies Association).
Publications in academic journals
- Sandra Abd’Allah-Álvarez Ramírez: “Riding on the digital donkey: blogs, bulletins and other specimens available to the Cuban anti-racist movement”, article published in the Cuban Studiesmagazine (special issue dedicated to the Afro-Cuban movement). University of Pittsburgh Press, volume 48, pp. 387-393; 2019.
- Sandra Abd ́AllahÁlvarez Ramírez: «Some questions about a post blockade», article published in the Journal The Black Diaspora Review: The Future of African Diaspora Studies in Cuba, Cuba special issue, vol. 5. # 2; February 2016.
- Sandra Álvarez Ramírez: “Habana Noir”, article published in the Cuban Studiesmagazine . vol. 42, University of Pittsburgh Press; 2011.
Publications in paper magazines
Sandra Álvarez Ramírez: “Praise of Altea, raciality in discussion”, article published in Temas magazine No. 79, 117-119, Jul-Sep 2014.
Sandra Álvarez Ramírez: “Slavery and naked bodies. The sexuality and the beauty of the black woman ”, article published in the magazine Sexología y Sociedad . Havana: Editorial Cenesex , 2014
Sandra Álvarez Ramírez: “Women, race and Caribbean identity. Conversation with Inés María Martiatu”, article published in La Gaceta de Cuba magazine , No.1, January-February 2010, pp.42-45.
Articles in books
- Sandra Abd ́Allah-Álvarez Ramírez: “Practices of resistance and cyber feminism in Cuba”, Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean. Narratives, Aesthetics, Politics, New York: Routlegde Publishing, 2018.
- Sandra Abd ́Allah-Álvarez Ramírez: “Einige aktuelle Fakten über die kubanischen Frauen”, article in German published in the book of several authors: Arbeitsbuch zum Weltgebetstag 2016. Ideen und Informationen, Germany, 2016.
- Sandra Abd ́Allah-Álvarez Ramírez: “Conscious Cuban Rap: Krudas Cubensi and Supercrónica Obsesión”, article published in The truth: an international dialogue on hip hop latinidades. Edited by Castillo-Garsow, Melissa, 1984-; Nichols, Jason, 1978-, The Ohio State University Press, 2016.
- Sandra Abd’Allah-Álvarez Ramírez: “We are not just boobs and buttocks.” DissidentFeminities in Cuban Hip Hop in Andar erótico decolonial , Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet (comp.). Buenos Aires: Sign Editions, 2015.
- “Cuban Black Women:” Identity, Racial Stereotype and Representation in the Media “, in Women Past and Present: Biographic and Multidisciplinary Studies, Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu, Seteve Fleetwood, Cambridge Scholoars Publishing, 2014.
- “The color of the skin in the censuses in Cuba”: Report on the situation of Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean, Epsy Campbell et al, Association Afro-descendant Institute for Study, Research and Development, San José, Coast, 2014.
- “The color of the skin in the censuses in Cuba”: Situation of Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba Urugual. The inequality reflected in the censuses, Epsy Campbell et al, Association Afro-descendant Institute for Study, Research and Development, San José, Costa, 2013.
- “The contribution of Sara Gómez” in Afrocubanas: history, thought and cultural practices , Daysi Rubiera Castillo and Inés María Martiatu Terry (ed.) Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, Havana, 2011.
Conferences and Presentations
- University of West Indies MONA, Kingston (Jamaica), 2009.
- London Metropolitan University, London (UK), 2010.
- International Colloquium “A Mulher em Debate: Passado e Presente”. University of Madeira, June 2011
- Wikipedia Umschreiben, Pavillon, Hannover, December 2014.
- Lateinamerika Institut, Frei Universität Berlin, May 2015.
- “Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean Practices: Social Fields and Decolonial Options” within the Socare Conference, Universität Bielefeld, October 2015.
- Passauer LateinAmerikagesprächen, Universität Passau, Germany, May 2016.
- Wir brauchen Feminismus! -Frühstück, Hannover (Germany), October 2016.
- Spam Filter: Neue & alternative Medien auf Kuba, Pavillon, Hannover (Germany), December 2016.
- Lateinamerika Institut, Frei Universität Berlin (Germany), June 2017.
- Iberoamerikanische Kulturtage zum Thema Afrika in Lateinamerika, Stuttgart (Germany), October 2017.
- Universität Bielefeld, February 2018.
- Universität der Künste Berlin (Germany), February 2018.
- University of Puerto Rico . Río Piedras Campus, May 2019.
- Brava Theater. San Francisco (California), May 2019.
- LASA (Latin-American Studies Association). Boston (Massachusetts) , May 2019.
