Migration, Identity, and Keeping Culture Alive with Denara Amat

‘I don’t empower these artisans, they empower me’ – Denara Amat

On The Progressive Woman Podcast in March this year, Denara Amat (who we know as the Founder of SEDA COLLECTIVE) spoke with enormous courage and frankness about her reality as an Uzbec/Uyghur Woman from East Turkestan, a culture that has long been subjected to ethnic cleansing. Denara also discusses the beginning of Seda and how meeting the Colombian artisans she works with has empowered her to share her own voice …

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