Mazorca Colectiva

Mazorca Colectiva is composed of immigrants, Indigenous Peoples, and people of the Global South seeking to recover their ancestral memory. The core of our work is taking care of the cycle of life, the seeds/children, the stems/parents, educators, writers, and artists, and the roots/elders who share their knowledge and pass the traditions onto the next generations so we can continue nourishing our ways of life in balance with the land.

The community being woven at Mazorca Colectiva is families. The core of Mazorca Colectiva are mothers and people working in caretaking roles, whether with infants, children, or elders, the women are the backbone of our community. For us, as immigrant women from the Global South, it is really important to be rooted in our ancestral ways to teach the next generations about possible futures. A future where we don’t have to hide, dim, or assimilate to survive the colonized/capitalist way of life.

Our goal is to uphold the embodied knowledge of ancestral practices. This is because our ways of relating to knowledge production are diverse and often overlooked in the standardized models of education. We expand our agency in the recovery and reconnection of our roots and ancestral traditions. Our way of education is to contemplate the cycles of life and to relate with the land in a good way.