Chapter 1Fighters

This graphic novel tells the stories of two strong women: 
Afro-descendant Melissa Martínez lives on Roatán, a small Caribbean island off the Caribbean island off the coast of Honduras. Tourists from North America spend their vacations here, enjoying the white sandy beaches and beaches and expensive resorts. Melissa lives a different reality, one of domestic violence and a lack of perspective. But she refuses to accept her fate and and begins to free herself from her limitations. She draws strength from her from her Garífuna origins and develops into a fighter - for her own rights and those of her 
for her own rights and those of her community. Because not only 
Garífuna are facing existential threats. 
Lina Prieto grew up in Bogotá. In the Colombian capital 
the consequences of decades of armed conflict in the country. 
the country, as well as in Lina's personal life. She recognized the social inequalities at an early age and and wants to fight them. Her path leads her to a guerrilla organization, but later she discovers her 
guerrilla organization, but later she discovers her language as a tool for for a more just society. 
As different as their realities are, the two women are united by their 
are united by their ability to free themselves from violent contexts and to find the inequalities and patriarchal social conditions. 
and patriarchal social conditions. In both stories is also the experience that this can only be can succeed.

On the website of the Research and Documentation Center Chile-Latin America e.V. you will find further information on the publication and the possibility to order the graphic novel as a print version.