Healing Techniques and Technologies II: Transfeminist Self-Defense —Beyond the Physical

A feminist self-defence workshop that combines a physical part (basic positions, strikes, blocks, etc.) with an analysis of different structural violences. Through dynamics and debates, it seeks to strengthen a counterpoint of resistance to the hegemonic imaginary (patriarchal, racist, colonial, classist, ableist). Although physical techniques are worked on, the workshop's crucial challenge is to break the limits of physicality, reclaiming the notion of self-defence as a legitimate and essential collective struggle tool for those realities that the capitalist, patriarchal and colonial societies we inhabit systematically postpone and oppress.

Led by Candela Quirós Arévalo


Candela Quirós Arévalo

Activist with extensive experience in institutions and autonomous or associative groups, especially in grassroots struggle projects dedicated to social and structural violence. Their practices are inspired by transfeminism and anti-racist or anti-colonial struggles. She participates in various social and neighbourhood organisation spaces, mainly with women and dissidents. An anthropologist by training, specialising in gender studies with an intersectional approach, she has experience in contact sports with a specialisation in the practice and transmission of verbal and physical feminist self-defence techniques.