With an increasingly hostile internet and the rise of reactionary, misogynistic, and racist far-right movements, it’s more important than ever to communicate with diversity.
It’s the responsibility of spaces like Carballo Interplay to help disseminate the discourse of female creators who seek to defend the rights of all. We want to hear from them and learn how to help improve spaces for debate, how to educate equally, and how to correct our prejudices. To this end, we want to feature some of the most relevant creators and communicators currently fighting against racism and gypsyphobia, such as Chaimaa Boukharsa, Silvia Agüero, Lucía Mbomío, and Celia Montoya.
A philologist with a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies, she specializes in cultural diversity and anti-racism. She is a lecturer, consultant, and communicator, as well as the co-founder of Afrocolectiva, an anti-racist, Afrofeminist, and decolonial deconstruction and communication outlet.
Instagram: @chaimaaboukharsa | Tiktok: @chaimaaboukharsa
Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio (Madrid, 1981) holds a degree in Information Sciences, a diploma in Documentary Screenwriting and Directing, a Master’s degree in Development and International Cooperation, and is a university expert in diversity management in the business world. In 2005, she began working in television and was a reporter for Telemadrid, Antena 3, and TVE1. She also directed and wrote scripts for documentaries. She collaborated with Cadena SER and El País, and continues to write for the newspaper and other digital media such as Píkara Magazine and Infolibre. She supervised and advised on the script for the series “Detective Touré” (TVE1) and is the co-founder of “Afromayores,” a photography and video project about memory featuring African and Afro-descendant people over 65. She has also written three books: “Las que se atrevieron” (The Ones Who Dared), “Hija del Camino” (Daughter of the Road), and “Tierra de la Luz” (Land of Light).
Instagram: @luciambomio
Guru Jimenez holds a degree in Social Work from the University of Salamanca. Since 2004, she has collaborated as a professor on several master’s programs and as an advisor on numerous programs and protocols aimed at the Roma population. At the University of Ourense, she was a professor on the Master’s program in “Gender Equality and Equality Policies” and on “Compensation for Educational Inequalities” at the University of Vigo, in the Chair of Feminist Studies. In 2015, she was the first Roma woman to head a parliamentary list for the province of Salamanca. Outside of institutional politics, she is president of the Roma Feminist Association for Diversity and a pioneer in the political formulation of Romani Feminism in Spain. As a feminist activist and one of the leading voices of counter-hegemonic feminism in Spain, she regularly participates in all kinds of forums, giving talks and conferences on feminism, anti-Romaism, and Roma politics.
She is the author of “Squaring Your Circles” (2018) and “Gypsy Re/visions. Politics, (Self)Representations and Activism in Dialogue with Gender and Sexuality.” She is currently developing the Roma feminist leadership school as a school of thought and action at the European level, together with the “Na bistarde” (We Do Not Forget) project for the intergenerational transmission of Roma memory.
