The Journalism Workshop for Indigenous Activists provides communication tools, mentoring, and training to Indigenous women and LGBTQ+ people in Argentina. The workshop aims to build a news agency that amplifies their voices and agendas. 

It's a free workshop that began in December 2021 and is being run in conjunction with the Indigenous Women and Diversity Movement for Good Living in Argentina. It is currently underway and registration is closed. 

Workshop Contents

Today, the various forms of violence expressed by Terricide are not visible in the hegemonic media or are disseminated with colonialist and racist biases.

For this reason, indigenous women and LBTIQ+ people are undertaking the construction of their own media, facing the urgent needs, the great distances and the difficulties of access and connectivity that present a large part of the territories of both Argentina and Paraguay. 

How do we stay informed? What is a news agenda? Why do we want to have our own media outlets? What do we want to communicate and how? These are some of the questions addressed in this workshop on content production from local communities.

Terricide, exploitation, extractivism, and institutional racism are some of the issues addressed in the agendas of these Indigenous women's media outlets. They also provide a space for their worldviews, memories, and proposals for Buen Vivir (Living Well).

Agencia Presentes supports this process with tools from journalism and editing as well as production for a sustainable design of these new media. 

Format: Blended learning

The workshop is conducted through bi-weekly virtual meetings and some in-person sessions. One of these took place in May 2022, at the Third Plurinational Parliament of Indigenous Women and Diversities for Good Living in Salta, Argentina.

Registration for this workshop is now closed.