María Reimóndez
Feminisms as a diverse world movement cannot be based on a hierarchical understanding of languages that make some statements and concerns central and important and those of the subjects who do not speak the hegemonic language, negligible, objectifiable, or simply irrelevant (unless ‘discovered’ by and mediated for a hegemonic subject). It is in this framework that the Sementae project was launched in Galicia in 2021. The project was started with the goal of translating feminist texts (oral and written) in non-hegemonic languages using, if needed, a hegemonic-language translation as a pivot language for the complex purpose of accessing the original text. The project not only focuses on producing translations into Galician of feminist texts written in Haitian Creole, Tagalog and Tamil using French and English respectively as an intermediate language, but it has developed a series of webinars to discuss a feminist methodology for this project. This article aims to present a brief theoretical framework for feminist translation across non-hegemonic languages, to share an existing example, that of the Sementae project, and to suggest a potential methodological framework for such exchanges.