Strategies for the transformation of pain from the experience of Afro-Colombian women survivors

Abstract

This article gives an account of the processes undertaken by Afro-Colombian women who are survivors of sexual violence and displacement in the context of the Colombian conflict to heal their pain, in which, using their ancestral knowledge, their ways of weaving community and relating, they empower political processes, of visibility and resistance to a violence that has not only penetrated the body but also its family and community nucleus; The article therefore focuses on the processes that women have developed from their role as surviving victims and from which it is possible to reflect on the different intersections present when reading violence towards them, but above all the way in which these strategies have managed to transform the pain and politicize it to make this politicization a healing tool.
Finally, the text recovers the experience of these women in the field of learning to think about the repair processes with an ethnoreparative approach. The article is the result of a research - intervention process carried out with women belonging to AFROMUIPAZ (Association of Afro Women for Peace), which was made from a methodological narrative approach with the aim of preserving the spirit of the Organization to give relevance to the orality.