Wed, Dec 10
|Barcelona
Backstory Talks: Yásnaya Elena A. Gil
An evening with a leading voice for linguistic and Indigenous rights
Time & Location
Dec 10, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Barcelona, Carrer de Mallorca, 330, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
About the event
We are deeply honored to welcome linguist, writer, and activist Yásnaya Elena A. Gil to Backstory Bookshop as part of her residency in Barcelona with the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). Her visit is made possible through the CCCB’s international residency programme, organized in collaboration with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and with the support of the Fundació Privada Mir-Puig.
Her work powerfully defends linguistic diversity as an act of resistance and a vision for the future. During her visit to Backstory she will discuss her newly translated book, This Mouth Is Mine (Charco Press, 2024). In this remarkable collection, she explores how every language carries a unique worldview — and how its disappearance is never neutral, but a form of violence that erases memory, identity, and possibility.
Together, we’ll reflect on what is lost when a language fades, what can still be preserved, and why listening —…