Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo
Photos: Julie Schwietert Collazo & Francisco Collazo
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Yesterday was International Women’s Day and March is Women’s History Month, so we wanted to honor women we’ve met in our travels by sharing photos and a bit of their stories here.
Aura Trespalacios, the matriarch of the Trespalacios family, helps maintain the tradition of making filigree gold jewelry, a craft they’ve nurtured over generations. Mompox, Colombia
We spent hours talking with this woman in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, but I realize only now that we never asked her name. She roasts coffee and gives demonstrations at the Hacienda El Jibarito, Puerto Rico’s first agritourism inn.
This woman waits on the Mexican side of the border in Tijuana. Her husband will meet her… on the American side. They’ll talk and touch through the small holes in the fence.
As I looked through our photos from Brazil, I realized that none of the formal meetings we were scheduled to have were with women. Women were a “backdrop” to the agenda.
Beautiful photographs. That shot of the woman at the border and the caption is so moving.
Thanks for this thoughtful post on remembering women around the world. It made me think of kind,talented, courageous and adventurous women I’ve met in my travels.
Thanks, Sonya! When I started thinking about all the women, I was really moved.
Thanks, Lola. There are actually so many stories to be told there.