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Conversation Circle Mapping Everyday Racism in Portugal and Some Decolonial Tactics

2 december 2024

The team from the AGRRIN Project – Generative Bodies: From Aggression to Insurrection. Contributions to a Decolonial Pedagogy (Project Ref.: 2022.06269.PTDC) organized the Conversation Circle: Mapping Everyday Racism in Portugal and Some Decolonial Tactics on November 16, 2024, at Casa Odara, a cultural space located in the center of Porto.

During the event, the preliminary results of the Everyday Racism in Portugal survey, conducted as part of the AGRRIN project from May 13 to September 8, 2024, were presented and discussed.

In the second part of the meeting, a sharing dynamic took place alongside some Decolonial Tactics, focusing on the symbolism and meanings of Adinkras, ideograms that express traditional values, philosophical ideas, and ancestral wisdom. This was aimed at deepening knowledge about African ancestral technology. For this dynamic, the event was supported by Samuel Wenceslau, a Black queer artist, also known as Sucata, who gifted the participants with an Educational Design proposal - a Game of Adinkras and Generative Words - as a way to foster and strengthen participation, dialogue, imagination, and the sharing of everyday insurgent practices. The initiative also sought to encourage new forms of citizenship construction, proposing an antiracist, decolonial, and cognitively just education.