The moose

I am a white, mixed-race trans masculine person, a trans and crazy artivist. I love drawing in all its possible expressions, and I am intrigued by life and its complexities. Emotions move me and are the sensitive compass that allows me to approach existence intuitively and politically, as a position in this world that moves me. At 23, I was non-consensually psychiatrically treated, and that divided my life in two, creating a wound but also a shell, which now moves me emotionally to do this work, both to heal that experience and so that more people don't have to go through it and release that frustration in some version of justice. This makes me an expert by experience and a survivor of psychiatry. I work at ALCE as co-director, directing the Mutual Support Group (GAM) and the Crazy Popular School, where I invest all my creative energy to generate alternatives to mental health services.

From there I express myself through art as a politicized expression, in a world that responds to sensitive expressions in a coercive and normalizing manner.

I am co-director of ALCE, where I lead the Mutual Support Group (GAM) line and the Loca Popular School, where I invest all my creative energy to generate alternatives to mental health services.

I am Márgara, a visual artist and pastry chef who is cyborg/queer, mixed-race, a teacher, a soccer mom, a woman/Cis, disabled, and neurodivergent.

I'm part of GAM and contribute strategies to continue weaving this network of affection, solidarity, and collective support. I'm also involved with Escuela Popular Loca, a politicizing space to eliminate stigma, depathologize life, and make disco culture and resistance visible firsthand.

I love live music, raves, activities where I don't have to be bipedal, colors, plants, animals, mountains, and volcanoes. I love learning and working together.

I'm María José, a dog mom, a metalhead, and a cis white, mixed-race, pansexual woman. I once studied law and worked as a lawyer. I've been an activist and workshop leader; I love solving problems, and some people say I'm a Virgo. For 10 years, I've worked with people with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and LGBTQ+ movements, and I still question my role in each of these struggles. I co-coordinate advocacy and support work for the Escuela Popular Loca at ALCE. I also consult and am coordinating a project in the Colombian Amazon that seeks to delve deeper into the intersection of ethnicity and disability. I live in Bogotá with more dogs and plants than I should, and I'm passionate about working for a world free of confinement and labeling.

I'm an anthropologist and lawyer. I practice yoga, I have lots of orchids, and I wake up listening to the radio every morning. I like to learn about opera and replay series endlessly. I'm a cis, bisexual, white, mestiza woman. I live in Bogotá with the love of my life and close to my family. I don't believe in zodiac signs, but at ALCE, I've discovered the magic of the Tarot. I'm part of ALCE's advocacy team, supporting its line of research and legal strategies. I work in human rights, trying to do my part against injustices and inequalities. I struggle to understand why there isn't global outrage or outrage over thousands of people living in confinement, in unsafe, unhealthy conditions, without the right to choose, and experiencing violence.

I like error, what is fractured, and resonating with what emerges from the crack. I like this city where I was born because it resists being planned, ordered, clean... white. I like noise, chaos, and those dances that include me in what dies and is born every day.

I like starting over, codes, and language. That's why I focus on understanding where words, things, and ideas come from. That's why I ended up at ALCE, managing communications with digital communities, developing strategies to amplify conversations, and designing.

I'm in Bogotá, riding on the idea that collective care and empathy are the dandelion that grows from concrete.

I am Anita, a mixed-race woman. I am part of the ALCE advocacy team in the research field. For a long time, I have been working on two main themes: research and disability, and at ALCE I can unite them. I studied sociology and am driven by the topic of social justice, anti-ableist actions, and the injured soccer player. I enjoy cooking and eating, spending time with my dog Mikaela, and, according to Family Welfare, I live in a hippie commune in rural Medellín. I believe in the power of joint, horizontal, and community-based actions from the heart.

A saucy Aquarian with more interests than he can handle, but with a deep love for things done with his hands, like filter coffee, cuddles, and tinkering with gadgets. As a repentant lawyer, I'm part of the ALCE advocacy team. Pale as cashew milk, a man skeptical of the sex-gender system, with a broad and democratic sexual orientation. I broadcast from the capital of the empire.

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