The Thread That Breaks

by inkwell

Camila Quemá, 26 · Chocó Department, Colombia (Emberá indigenous territory)

Camila Quemá, a young Emberá mother and community health worker in Chocó, Colombia, discovers her grandmother performed a ritual cutting on her infant daughter while Camila was away. Torn between the family she loves and the harm she cannot accept, Camila fights to end the practice in her community — not by abandoning her culture, but by transforming it from within.