A Plurilogue: Stories of Girls’ Resistance
A Plurilogue performance was created with the Stories of Girls’ Resistance, the largest ever collection of oral and narrative history of adolescent girls’ activism, offering a window into girls’ lives and their resistance in all of its messiness, pain, and power.
So what is a Plurilogue?
A Plurilogue, according to our definition, is a collective dialogue – a dynamic exchange of many stories in direct political and radical relationship with one another.
This purilogue is dedicated to anyone on a journey of healing and liberating their inner child.
ARTIST
“It is essential to remember, embrace and heal our inner child as an act of resistance. Only with an embodied sense of liberation, joy and dreams can we collectively build a just new world.”
Erin is an Artist-in-Residence with Our Collective Practice and is working to transform a publication of over 150 “Stories of Girls’ Resistance” from 90 countries into a ‘plurilogue’ performance piece. Erin has been a leader in radical resource redistribution for 10 years and has developed successful funding programs to amplify social movements both domestically and internationally. Prior to philanthropy, she was an organizer, coalition builder and advisor across Canada, Belgium, Jamaica, and Botswana.
Girls from around the world whose quotes and stories were featured in the first full Plurilogue performance include:
🇸🇱 Josephine, Sierra Leone
🇳🇮 Maria Jose, Nicaragua
🇿🇦 Revenia, South Africa
🇳🇪 Fati, Niger
🇵🇸 Anonymous, Palestine
🇹🇹 Indrani & Darcel, Trinidad and Tobago
🇺🇸 Ebony, Marilyn, Mason-Sera & Denicia, US
🇬🇾 Akola, Guyana
🇲🇽 Elizabeth, Mexico
🇨🇴 Estefania, Colombia
🇰🇪 Crystal & Po, Kenya
🇨🇩 Glodie, DRC
🇮🇶 Ronak, Iraq
🇱🇰 Nithya, Sri Lanka
🇪🇭 As-ria, Western Sahara
🇺🇦 Yana, Ukraine
🇺🇬 Edna, Uganda
🇲🇽 Nur, Mexico
🇪🇹 Zemdema, Ethiopia
🇹🇴 Haitelenisia, Tonga
🇬🇲 Musa, The Gambia
🇷🇺 Yumzhana, Russia
Featured Artists
Girls who performed in the first full Plurilogue performance are from the Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy (BELA) high school:
Please recognize our fantastic actors in our reading of “A Plurilogue: Stories of Girls’ Resistance” from the Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy (BELA) high school.
Jeriah Riley Casimir
18 years (she/her)
“It is essential to remember, embrace and heal our inner child as an act of resistance. Only with an embodied sense of liberation, joy and dreams can we collectively build a just new world.”
Rayannie Providence
AS CONVERGENCE
“I believe that girls should dream to help promote the understanding of thoughts and feelings towards their aspirations.”
“It's important for girls to dream so they can be change-makers in their society, and create a legacy for themselves.”
Jeriah Riley Casimir
18 years (she/her)
“I think that girls should dream so they can envision all the possibilities that they should know they're capable of.”
Rayannie Providence
AS CONVERGENCE
“I believe that girls should dream to help promote the understanding of thoughts and feelings towards their aspirations.”
“It's important for girls to dream so they can be change-makers in their society, and create a legacy for themselves.”
Rayannie Providence
AS CONVERGENCE
“I believe that girls should dream to help promote the understanding of thoughts and feelings towards their aspirations.”
LEARN MORE AND PARTNER WITH US!
Currently in its inception stage, the initiative is being seeded by Our Collective Practice, a feminist hub dedicated to building narrative, knowledge, and power with and for girls. Ongoing partnerships and collaborations with Indigenous curators, artists, documenters, and communities worldwide are actively developing.
To learn more about the Indigenous Girls’ Dreams and Resistance initiative, bring the exhibit to your community, or explore partnership opportunities, email us at hello@ourcollectivepractice.org.
