{"id":2761,"date":"2019-10-04T16:39:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alvaralice.org\/en\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2019-11-14T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:52:35","slug":"afro-colombian-julissa-mosquera-shares-her-story-in-colombanas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alvaralice.org\/en\/news\/afro-colombian-julissa-mosquera-shares-her-story-in-colombanas\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRO COLOMBIAN, JULISSA MOSQUERA, SHARES HER STORY IN COLOMB!ANAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Alvaralice Foundation showcases and supports the Colomb!anas project as part of its \u200b\u200bReflection and Dialogue focus area. We invite you to read the story of Julissa Mosquera, a representative of the Afro-Colombian community.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mosquera was a natural leader since childhood, tempered by the need to survive, who unwillingly became a very young mother only to fall in love with motherhood. She never knew the love of a father, being raised by her mother and grandmother, later to be separated from her family and becoming a brave survivor of Colombia&#8217;s long-standing internal conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Julissa Mosquera is a strong and courageous Colombian woman. In her amber eyes, broad smile and exuberant laughter, you can read the story of a resilient woman, who overcame the consequences of the war, a cruel episode of sexual abuse, two suicide attempts and a failed attempted murder. Nevertheless, she was never able to overcome her phobia of wearing dresses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"No me gustan los vestidos\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H2FRp4gTZsU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t wear dresses, that&#8217;s not me. I do not feel good in them, I feel better in pants,&#8221; shares the woman who studied social work and has devoted herself in recent years to defending victims\u2019 rights and those of the afro community.<\/p>\n<p>Julissa&#8217;s voice became a part of the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombianas.org\">Colomb!anas Collective Biography<\/a>&#8216; with her personal story and her account of how she was reborn from the ashes. She describes herself &#8220;like a phoenix&#8221;. A native of the department of Choc\u00f3, she is an example of a strong Colombian woman.<\/p>\n<p>Julissa talks about her life, her relationship with religion and with the women in her family. &#8220;Since childhood I was a leader, I grew up without a lot of things, but I always managed to help other needy children. I became like the &#8216;mommy&#8217; of these children. That\u2019s why I say that leaders are born, not made,&#8221; says this mother of three children, who presided for several years over a victims\u2019 association in Choc\u00f3 and because of the complaints they filed, ended up being taken and abused by several men and a woman who belonged to paramilitary groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After that violent act I was very alone. I woke up 15 days later at the hospital in Quibd\u00f3. The wounds to my body were very serious, but so were those to my soul. I felt very lonely, friends, neighbors and even my mother blamed me for what had happened. It was very difficult for my children to understand, accept and forgive&#8221;, says Julissa.<\/p>\n<p>In search of safety and to protect her children&#8217;s lives and her own, Julissa returned to Bogot\u00e1, and successfully raised her children as a single mother. Her children were able to study and she devoted herself to defending victims in order for them to find a path of resilience and become survivors. &#8220;I will not rest until Colombia\u00a0 recognizes Afro as equals, so that our culture is widely\u00a0 studied, recognized and our rights are upheld. Where there is an Afro-Colombian who needs me, I&#8217;ll be there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Julissa Mosquera&#8217;s story, and the ten new Colombian women who joined their voices to our collective biographies in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombianas.org\">www.colombianas.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you hear a story, do you recognize yourself?<\/p>\n<p>When you tell it, do you feel free?[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Alvaralice Foundation showcases and supports the Colomb!anas project as part of its \u200b\u200bReflection and Dialogue focus area. We invite you to read the story of Julissa Mosquera, a representative of the Afro-Colombian community. 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