Afro-Caribbean women and resistance An exploration of decolonial feminist pedagogies in the Women's Museum Costa Rica

An exploration of decolonial feminist pedagogies in the Women's Museum Costa Rica

Abstract

As a professor and founder of the Women's Museum Costa Rica I explore in this article how exhibitions help us in our pedagogical mission of a new decolonial gender awareness. Specifically, I analyze a number of selected artworks in online exhibition titled Memories and resistances. Women, artists, Afro-America and Caribbean stories in terms of how they make visible and represent women of Afro-descendants as complex political subjects. My findings show that this exhibition operated very effectively as an instrument of feminist decoloniality, by addressing the matrix of gender and race oppression, recovering different stories of women and memories of historical resistances, and offering a more collective sense of identity and agency. By curating exhibitions like this, our women's museum can play a crucial role in providing new anti-racist, anti-traditional and anti-patriarchal perspectives that educate current and younger generations about the histories and lives of women who have long been ignored.