What is feminist science fiction from Abya Yala? What emerges when we set out to write science fiction without the arrogance of Western science? What do we see when we discard the universalization of a white, cisheteropatriarchal, individualist, and ableist vision?

Excerpts from the introduction with free translation to english

These are texts that emerged during the intense course of eight online meetings, held twice a week during the month of October 2024. The participants were selected through an open call to participate in the workshop, which we launched a month earlier through Coding Rights and Musea M.A.M.I. With the certainty that imagining is a political exercise, we decided to carry it out despite not being exactly experts in science fiction. Our relationship with the topic came from years of work connected to free technologies and reflection on how new technologies affect access to human rights. More recently, also, from our interest in reconnecting with ancestral technologies that are our own or widely used in our territories.

The stories presented below bring imaginaries that, by being situated in dissident bodies and territories, draw future-presents that are sometimes rooted in precious memories of the past-present. Other times, they transmute colonial and patriarchal violence into moments of dreams or revenge, where the established order changes to finally crush the constant everyday dystopia. These are embodied narratives that, by bringing elements from the cultures we inhabit, take us on different journeys toward our political fictions. The science that is invoked, the “sci” of the “fi“, is also one that recognizes (and comes from) our local and ancestral knowledge and wisdom. Memory, dreams, the presence of grandmothers, and the power of dissident communities that, in connection with territories, stars, and other beings, awaken new forms of existence. From this arise some of the themes of the stories in this book.

With texts by Ange Cayuman, Asami Ortiz, ch’ixi proxy, Diana Thalia Jiménez Martínez, La Alda, Josefa Ruiz-Tagle, Malicia Sabina, Paulx Gialdroni, Rae del Cerro, Rastros de Diógenes, Thabata Lorena and epilogue by Gabriela Damián Miravete.
Cover illustration: Desobediencia Visual.
Editorial design: Camila González.

The book was coordinated by Lucía Egaña Rojas and Joana Varon.
Produced by Coding Rights and Musea M.A.M.I. with support from Association for Progressive Communications (APC).

Currently, the book is available only in Chile and Spain.
In Spain, it is being distributed by Virus Editorial to various cooperative and independent bookstores, but can be purchased online through the links below:

Chile
Alma Negra Librería

España
Virus Editorial

As soon as it is available to the Brazilian public and other Latin American countries, we’ll let you know! 💜

Events

May 16, 2025
Pre-launch of “Una bolsa de semillas: ciencia ficción feminista en Abya Yala” at CryptoRave 2025
Find out more: https://codingrights.org/library-item/pre-lancamento-de-una-bolsa-de-semillas-cryptorave/

June 07, 2025
Book launch at Alma Negra Librería y Plataforma in Santiago de Chile

June 8, 2025
Sembrando entre ruinas: ciencia-ficción-especulación at Espacio Circulante in Valparaíso, Chile
Presentation and discussion of the books Una bolsa de semillas. Ciencia ficción feminista en Abya Yala y Ruinas del futuro. Utopias e distopias do Cone Sul.

August 06, 2025
Book Launch Session at the Mercosur Anthropology Meeting in Salvador – Bahia | Federal University of Bahia | Ondina Campus

August 13, 2025
Book launch “Una Bolsa de Semillas: Ciencia ficción feminista en Abya Yala”.
Nueva Imperial – Chile | Municipal Public Library 112

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