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Indigenous Futures: A Conversation with Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
Twenty Summers
English - October 03, 2022 22:17 - 55 minutes - 53.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Society & Culture provincetown art arts conversations concerts symposia debate politics literary literary events Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (Ayutla Mixe, 1981) is a member of COLMIX, a collective of young Mixe people who carry out research and dissemination activities on Mixe language, history and culture. She studied Hispanic Language and Literature and completed a Master's degree in Linguistics at UNAM. She has collaborated in various projects on the dissemination of linguistic diversity, development of grammatical content for educational materials in indigenous languages, and documentation projects and attention to languages at risk of disappearing. She has been involved in the development of written material in Mixe and in the creation of Mixe-speaking readers and other indigenous languages. She has been involved in activism for the defense of the linguistic rights of indigenous language speakers, in the use of indigenous languages in the virtual world and in literary translation. She has also been involved in processes in defense of the environment.