Queer Science

30.09.2020

Alejandra Posada, Carol Osorio, Juana Arismendy

| Host: Juan Diego Rivera

This space for dialogue aims to analyze issues of gender and science. How is women's participation in science understood today? Why is it vital at this time to think beyond the established and binary limits, and to understand the immensity of possibilities, in order to create a more equitable and free society?

Alejandra Posada

She studied biomedical engineering, where she became passionate about science and the social appropriation of knowledge. She is currently studying planning for social development and is co-founder of the Biohacking Colombia collective, which seeks to generate processes of literacy, scientific dissemination and motivation and understanding of the participation of women in science.

Carol Osorio

Architectural draftswoman, social and community manager. Participant of the women's and feminist social movement. Since 2000 she has participated in anarchist collectives such as the CEL center for libertarian studies and some social centers. Since 2008 she is part of the project Rojinegro libertarian distributor.

Juana Arismendy

Guagua What Collective. Guagua What!? It is a collective of scientific dissemination that was born from the biodiversity colloquium of the explora park. It is composed mainly by students of biology and related areas that has the proposal to grow the popularization in the city of Medellin and in the country.

Juan Diego Rivera

In-disciplinary artist, with studies in filmmaking and philosophy. He has been working in the artistic creation laboratory Mutante.Lab for almost a decade, where he has developed several projects with experimental media and expanded cinema narratives. From spaces such as Suratómica Network, or Enjambre Interzone he has collaborated in the management and production of creative, critical, cultural and resistance spaces.