Vulva libre
Vulva Libre is a feminist social project created by Natalia Roa (myself) and Carmenza Rojas, two Colombian queer and BIPOC artists, activists and cultural managers.
Since 2017 we have designed, facilitated and organised online and offline events for the gathering of LBTIQ+ women and new masculinities around body sovereignty, pleasure activism, feminisms and creative therapies. Also creative laboratories and spaces for the sharing of knowledge, the learning and unlearning of free and consensual sexuality, the dialogue and education on sexual, reproductive and affective health and rights.
We have also designed social mobilizations, performances and collective creations and have staged scenes around gender justice, antiracism, and healing of personal and collective trauma regarding sexuality.
We also have a small publishing press called VulvaLibros Editoras, with 3 books printed until now.
In 2017 Vulva Libre was selected to be a part of Leading from the South, a four-year feminist initiative from the Mujeres del Sur Fund (Argentina) aiming to finance and support activism for women’s rights and sexual diversity in the Global South. This program was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. This program was inexplicably enriching for us and our community and we were able to build a wide network of feminist cultural practitioners and social leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean as we travelled to Perú, Argentina and Uruguay representing our project.
We also worked directly for the Fund as curators and producers of a four-day gathering of the 34 partner organisations of the Leading from the South in Cartagena, Colombia.