The article submission process for the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, “Gendering decolonizations: ways of seeing and knowing”, edited by Maria do Carmo Piçarra (ICNOVA – NOVA FCSH), Ana Cristina Pereira (CES – U. Coimbra) and Inês Beleza Barreiros (independent scholar), is open until January 15th 2021.
In the context of the internationalism that was the backbone of liberation struggles worldwide, women used images – mostly photography and film – as a weapon. In a certain way, this political engaged praxis was a sort of response to the use of images by political, scientific, and economic propaganda, which very much sustained the colonial order and ideology.
In Portuguese-speaking countries, among the women who photographed or made films for political purposes, the names of Augusta Conchiglia, Margaret Dickinson, Ingela Romare, Sarah Maldoror and Suzanne Lipinska stand out. The filmed materials – and not just the ones women authored – were given meaning by film editors Jacqueline Meppiel, Cristiana Tullio-Altan or Josefina Crato (the only woman among the four young Guineans sent, by Amílcar Cabral himself, to Cuba to study cinema).
