I am deeply engaged in photography and the visual medium to convey new forms of understanding human rights. Moreover, my aim is to move our attention to the very center, to the individual experiences from communities that otherwise are lost behind big data figures and concepts. This short film brings a personal experience of racial discrimination and female gender stereotyping as a woman of African descend, a migrant student and a human rights defender. “I Ain't” -previously titled "Mind Games"-, aims to touch through the individual and the personal, to broader voices that have faced racial discrimination. It is the extrapolation and interpretation of what Bell Hooks meant by “looking courageously.” I use narration as the representation of two voices, two characters. On the one hand, the voices in our minds that keep echoing discriminatory discourses. On the other, the inner voices of resilience, courage and will to change reality by looking back, by gazing. I use performative elements such as the marimba music and dance and the recital of black poetry (as we call it in my hometown, Esmeraldas), to convey my ethnic roots and show them with no mysticism. To revert those same aspects that others use to discriminate, and present them as the center of my response.
You can watch the first version at Human Rights in the Picture website as part of the Long Haul Youth Initiative project: https://humanrightsinthepicture.org/the-long-haul-youth-initiative
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