Lorena Cabnal

Lorena Cabnal (Nicaragua, 1973), a Maya-Xinka from Guatemala, is an advocate of community feminism. Originally from Santa María Xalapán, Cabnall is the daughter of the Xinca Maya cosmogony and co-founder of the community-territorial feminist movement in Guatemala, the Network of Ancestral Healers of Community Feminism Tzk’at (in Mayan Quiché).

Main publications

> “Acercamiento a la construcción del pensamiento epistémico de las mujeres indígenas feministas comunitarias de Abya Yala” (Feminismos diversos: el feminismo comunitario, ACSUR, 2010)

Interviews

«Recupero la alegría sin perder la indignación, como un acto emancipatorio y vital» (Pikara Magazine, 2019)

Videos