PAMINA SEBASTIÃO

 Pamina Sebastião is a multidisciplinary visual activist based in Luanda. Their work includes text, film, photography and collages, often centring their body as a medium-terrain from which to interrogate coloniality in Luanda’s context. They were a co-founder of the Arquivo de Identidade Angolano, a queer activist archive created in 2017; a member of Ondjango Feminista; part of the team of LINKAGES Angola project and a trustee for the Other Foundation. Overall , they are an activist on gender in sexuality for many years focusing on stigma and discrimination as well in sexual and reproductive health and rights. Sebastião is also the creator of Só Belo Mesmo, a multimedia project launched in 2020, which engages with the reflection on our living bodies experiences outside of the current existence categories , re- imagining a body as part of the decolonization process, intersecting the insertions of gender, race and sexuality in contemporary Angolan society influenced by colonialism and the coloniality of power.

https://www.sobelomesmo.com

 
 
 

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