Walla Capelobo

Walla Capelobo

Walla Capelobo 1992, Brazil, is a dark forest and fertile mud. Transfeminist and anticolonial. Researcher and artist who creates in the spiral of time that crosses her life. In search of being a criolla seed capable of regenerating invaded lands. She is the pedagogical coordinator of the platform Desculonización: acción y pensamiento (Mexico-Brazil). Proponent of the courses “Terra à terra” and “Composteras: Saberes Regenerativos,” alongside Beatriz Nascimento.

Whispers

by: Walla Capelobo

In this second part of “The congonhas and the whispering mountains”, Walla guides us through the institution of the dream and the stones as founding elements of a continuous process of recreation of the Land against extractive invasion.

The congonhas and the whispering mountains

by: Walla Capelobo

Congonhas is a city in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil victim of the violence of mineral extraction that fragments its mountains and the bodies of its human and non-human inhabitants. Its name comes from a teacher plant threatened by the destruction of its habitat.