Silvia Agüero

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Agüero, the second or maternal family name is Fernández.

Silvia Agüero (born, Madrid, 24 August 1985) is a Spanish Roma feminist writer and human rights activist who recovers the memory of the oppression of gitano people.

Silvia Agüero
(2019)
Born	Silvia Agüero Fernández 24 August 1985 (1985-08-24) (age 38) Vallecas, Madrid, Spain
Occupation	feminist writer human rights activist
Literary movement	recovering the memory of the oppression of gitano people

Biography

Silvia Agüero Fernández was born in Vallecas (a district in Madrid) into a gadjo family who espoused an anti-gypsy ideology. Silvia became aware of what it meant to belong to Romani society and culture and created an intercultural association led by Roma people: Pretendemos Gitanizar el Mundo (We intend to Romaize the World).^[1][2] She leads the Revolución de las Rosas Romaní (Revolution of the Roma Roses), an activist group against abuse during childbirth.^[3] She coordinates the Plataforma Rosa Cortés.^[4] She collaborates with the community radio station Radio Vallekas, with Pikara Magazine,^[5][6][7] and with AraInfo.^[8][9]

While living in La Rioja, Agüero appeared on the Podemos lists for the 2020 municipal elections.^[4] Among her inspirations are the flamenco singer La Paquera de Jerez, the lawyer Pastora Filigrana, and Rosa Cortés, the protagonist of the Great Gypsy Round-up of 1749.^[10]

In the book Resistencias Gitanas, written together with Nicolás Jiménez, they denounce the erasure of the history of the gypsy people. Examples of this are the absence of Roma repression in the school curriculum, the ignorance of the model of resistance of Roma women to the laws of Felipe II, or the questioning of the anti-Roma cultural model, such as the stereotype of La gitanilla by Miguel de Cervantes. All of this is behind the discrimination that the Roma people continue to face.^[11]

In 2022, together with the actress and director Nüll García, and with the acting support of Pamela Palenciano, Agüero created the theatrical monologue, No soy tu gitana at the Teatro del Barrio that deconstructs the historical public image of gypsy women from 1499 to the present.^[12] García directs Agüero in this work whose name is inspired by the title of the documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, based on the work of the American writer and civil rights activist, James Baldwin.^[13]

Selected works

• 2019 – Disidencia en el cuerpo: perspectivas feministas. VVAA. Editorial Menades. ISBN 978-84-120204-0-3
• 2020 – Resistencias gitanas. Junto a Nicolás Jiménez. Libros.com. ISBN 9788418261718
• 2021 – Pretendemos Gitanizar el mundo. Revista. VVAA. ISSN 2660-9908
• 2022 – Mi Feminismo es Gitano. Monograph with Maria Ágeles Fernández. Píkara Magazine.^[14]
• 2022 – No soy tu gitana. with Nüll García. Monólogo teatral.^[2]

References

1. . afrofeminas.com (in Spanish). 8 February 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-02-08. Retrieved 8 April 2023 – via web.archive.org.
2. "La revista Pretendemos Gitanizar el Mundo lanza su primer número en papel". Diario Libre d'Aragón (in Spanish). 12 March 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
3. "Resistencias gitanas con Silvia Agüero". Hala Bedi (in Spanish). 13 April 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
4. "Silvia Agüero Fernández" – Asambleas Autonómicas 2020 (in Spanish)
5. Fernández, Silvia Agüero (15 December 2021). "Activista gitana feminista defiende a los machos gitanos". Pikara Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 April 2023.
6. Fernández, Silvia Agüero (2021-09-15). "El amor tóxico es el origen del tópico de tu gitana". Pikara Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-05-21.
7. Fernández, Silvia Agüero (2021-04-21). "101 mujeres gitanas pa' construir tu feminismo". Pikara Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-05-21.
8. AGÜERO FERNÁNDEZ, SILVIA (30 July 2020). "Prisión General de Gitanas: la Gran Redada de 1749". AraInfo · Diario Libre d'Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 April 2023.
9. "8 de abril, Día Internacional del Pueblo Gitano: nada que celebrar, todo que luchar". AraInfo · Diario Libre d'Aragón (in Spanish). 2020-04-08. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
10. Osa, Bea (5 March 2020). "Silvia Agüero: "Los hombres gitanos no son más machistas que los payos"". www.lasexta.com (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
11. Babiker, Sarah (24 January 2021). "Silvia Agüero y Nicolás Jiménez: "Queremos que la población gitana que nos lea sepa de dónde venimos, que no somos lo que nos han contado"". www.elsaltodiario.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 April 2023.
12. García, Rocío (20 May 2022). "La voz de las mujeres gitanas truena en el teatro". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 April 2023.
13. Gerehou, Moha (9 June 2022). "Silvia Agüero, creadora de 'No soy tu gitana': "No era consciente del antigitanismo a gran escala, pensaba que solo pasaba en mi barrio"". Yahoo Finance (in European Spanish). Retrieved 8 April 2023.
14. "Mi feminismo es gitano. Con Silvia Agüero y Mª Ángeles Fernández - Ateneo Maliciosa". Traficantes de Sueños (in Spanish). 9 April 2022.