gender<ed> thoughts Y. 5/2026 - Venezuelan Adolescent Girls Confronting Gender-Based Violence and Gendered Xenophobia in Peruvian Schools: A Feminist Decolonial Participatory Perspective by Marquez Olivera, K. G.
This article examines how Venezuelan adolescent girls confront gender-based violence and gendered xenophobia in Peruvian schools. Drawing on feminist, decolonial, and participatory research with teenage activists in Lima, it argues that schools function as sites of intersecting violence, where the coloniality of power and of gender racializes migrant girls through markers such as accent, dress, and nationality, not skin color alone. Yet these girls are not passive victims: they exercise agency and resistance through feminist and intercultural practices, generating their own concepts to name the violence and identities they navigate. By centering their voices as epistemic agents, the study reframes them as political actors and knowledge producers, and calls for educational reform grounded in feminist, intercultural, and rights-based pedagogies.
Keywords
Venezuelan adolescent girls; gender-based violence; gendered xenophobia; decolonial feminism; feminist participatory research; education in Peru
With a commentary by Alina Potts.