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Martha Liliana Rivas Orobio Editor

Otras Negras … y ¡Feministas! (editor) is a Black Afrodescendent feminist women’s collective from Cali, Colombia. Members include Elba Mercedes Palacios Córdoba, María Campo, Martha Liliana Rivas Orobio, Natalia Andrea Ocoró Grajales, and Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma.


Silvia Federici (contributor, translator) is a lauded feminist, Marxist theorist and author of Caliban and the Witch, Revolution at Point Zero, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women among others. 

Liz Mason-Deese (contributor, translator) is an editor of Viewpoint Magazine and a long-time participant and translator of women’s movements in Latin America. She is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Susana Draper (contributor, translator) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and author of Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Post-Dictatorship Latin America (2012, 2012) and 1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and Democracy (2018). Her current projects include a book on Marxist Women and Philosophies of Liberation, that reconstructs a history of key figures and moments in women’s critical heterodox expressions of Marxism, mostly focused on Latin America and the United States throughout the 20th century.