This panel demystifies the academic writing and unmasks the epistemic racism in Latin American universities, based on the process of editing the Revista Conexión's special issue "Media narratives of insurgencies, resistance, and anti-racism in Latin and the Caribbean'' (2021). This issue addresses the academic writing and publishing process as a platform for Amefrican connections led by Black women from Brazil, Peru and Venezuela.

• Dr. Meyby Ugueto-Ponce - researcher at Laboratorio de Antropología del Desarrollo of the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas; Instituto de Investigaciones sobre África y su Diáspora; activist of Trenzas Insurgents - colectivo de mujeres negras, afrovenezolanas y afrodescendientes.

• M.A Sharún Gonzalez Matute - Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; researcher at Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at University of South Florida; Afroperuavian activist.

• Dr. Camila Daniel - Tinker visiting professor at Columbia University; professor at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro; activist-researcher.

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