Pastora Filigrana

Pastora Filigrana (born 26 May 1981) is a Spanish Roma lawyer, trade unionist, feminist, columnist, and human rights activist.

Early life and education Pastora Filigrana García was born in the Triana neighborhood of Seville. At the age of nine, it was already said the child was going to be "the gypsy lawyer". Growing up "in a ghetto" gave her a lot of social sensitivity towards issues related to equality from a young age. She learned what the class consciousness of grandmothers is "with their example of life" and labor law in the Andalusian Workers' Union.

After participating in the creation of the (Association of University Gypsy Women) (Amuradi), she graduated in law at the age of 23 from the University of Seville.

Career Filigrana's career began as a legal adviser for the Villela Or Gao Caló, a Roma association in the Seville neighborhood of Las 3000 Viviendas, also working with the migrant population. In 2020, she published the book El pueblo gitano contra el sistema mundo. Unas reflexiones desde un activismo feminista y anticapitalista (The Gypsy People Against the World System. Some reflections from a feminist and anti-capitalist activist), in which she argues that the persecution of the Roma people has to do with their forms of community resistance through cooperation and mutual aid, and their opposition to adapting to "salary blackmail".

Selected works

2019: Descolonizar y despatriarcalizar Andalucía. Una mirada feminista gitana-andaluza en Miradas en torno al problema colonial.

2020: Desafío, el virus no es el único peligro, Ediciones Akal 2020: El pueblo gitano contra el sistema mundo. Unas reflexiones desde un activismo feminista y anticapitalista, Ediciones Akal,