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-IN-RESIDENCE
“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 transformed 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 over 10 years and has developed successful funding programs to amplify social movements both domestically and internationally in sexual and reproductive justice, girls' rights, digital justice and narrative and cultural strategy. Prior to philanthropy, she was an organizer, coalition builder and advisor across Canada, Belgium, Jamaica, and Botswana. Erin calls Harlem, New York her home.
Girls from around the world whose quotes and stories were featured in this debut 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
Please recognise our fantastic actors who performed in the debut 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
17 years (she/her)
AS CONVERGENCE
“I believe that girls should dream to help promote the understanding of thoughts and feelings towards their aspirations.”
Neriah Laborde
18 years (she/her)
AS WISDOM
“It's important for girls to dream so they can be change-makers in their society, and create a legacy for themselves.”
Kaylah Wright
17 years (she/her)
AS SACRIFICE
“I think that girls should dream so they can envision all the possibilities that they should know they're capable of.”
Valeria Tavera
17 years (she/her)
AS GRIEF
“I believe that dreaming is important for girls because it helps girls set goals for themselves, build confidence, and imagine a future beyond what they see around them.”
Rickysha Senatus
17 years (she/her)
AS SHAPE SHIFTING
“Dreaming is important for girls because they have to have a future set up for success, especially Black girls, and it is Women's History Month, so it's all about leaving the history and the legacy behind for the upbringing of other girls.”
Danilla St. Louis
18 years (she/her)
AS TRUTH TELLING
“It’s important for girls to dream because it gives us hope.”
“As a young girl I felt solidarity coming from my girlfriends, sisterhood. From them I feel so affirmed and so loved. I feel the burden of patriarchy on my back, but with them, we share the burden. So much love comes from that sharing and that unity. It gives you energy for the fight ahead. Solidarity is imagining freedom together. It might just be an experiment. But at least if we start it, maybe someone else will continue it.” — Zemdema, Ethiopia
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 Black, Indigenous and women and non-binary people of color curators, artists, documenters, and communities worldwide are actively developing.
To learn more about the Plurilogue, bring the performance to your community, or explore partnership opportunities, email us at hello@ourcollectivepractice.org.
