Presentation of the book “Zomo Wirin. “Mapuche women who write in the press 1935-1968”

Presentation of the book “Zomo Wirin. “Mapuche women who write in the press 1935-1968”

• La Moneda Cultural Center, Wiphala Space (level -1), La Moneda Metro.
• Wednesday, June 19 – 6:30 p.m..

As part of the program Winter solstice of the La Moneda Cultural Center (CCLM), dedicated to indigenous peoples and dissidents, the book is presented Zomo Wirin. Mapuche women who write in the press 1935-1968 (Veranada Ediciones), June 19 at 6:30 p.m. It is a compilation of writings published in Mapuche chronicles, southern newspapers, organizational bulletins and student newspapers, among others.

“Zomo Wirin is a small gesture of love and recognition to our ancestors. ‘Leaders’, teachers, peasants, students who fought so that the Mapuche girls of the future, that is, us, would have a better life,” says editor Marilen Llancaqueo.

For example, Hermina Aburto Colihueque, Laura Chihuailaf, Elvira Inalaf, Margarita Jaramillo Colompil, Rosa Meli, Cecilia Manquel, Laura Nahuelpan, Guillermina Neculpan, Eliana Pichun Seguel, Zoila Quintremil, Margarita Rapiman and María Rivas Mariqueo. “Brilliant, beautiful women, who lucidly knew that in writing was the path of struggle and resistance for indigenous peoples and, especially, for indigenous women,” she emphasizes.

The volume, printed in bilingual edition (mapudungun-spanish), which was supported by the National Book Fund, includes a prologue by the anthropologist and National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences (2013), Sonia Montecino. Previously, it was shown at the 2nd Tukulpan Meeting, held in the Crisis bookstore (Valparaíso) and in the VII Version of the Intercultural and Gastronomic Week of Native Peoples (commune of Maipú). Soon, it will premiere in Temuco.

The event at the La Moneda Cultural Center is a tribute to the authors of the texts grouped in Zomo Wirin. Mapuche women who write in the press 1935-1968 and includes a collective reading of fragments and music.