Reframing Interculturality: Visual Sovereignty and Feminist Indigenous Audiovisual Collectives in Mexico

This article examines feminist Indigenous audiovisual collectives in Mexico as sites of visual sovereignty and intercultural knowledge production. Challenging liberal multicultural approaches that frame interculturality through state recognition and cultural inclusion, it argues that Indigenous women's media practices exceed these frameworks. Drawing on Indigenous media theory, decolonial feminist thought and intercultural studies, the article conceptualizes visual sovereignty as a relational and epistemic practice grounded in territoriality, collective authorship and gendered Indigenous knowledge. Through qualitative analysis of audiovisual productions associated with Proyecto Videoastas Indígenas de la Frontera Sur (PVIFS) and K'inal Antsetik, it shows how these practices challenge dominant regimes of visibility, unsettle cultural citizenship and articulate belonging beyond state-centered models. Testimonial practices, community-based knowledge and territorial relations emerge as strategies through which Indigenous women assert epistemic authority and reshape intercultural dialogue. By bringing visual sovereignty into conversation with intercultural studies, the article advances a decolonial feminist perspective that reconceptualizes interculturality as an epistemic field of struggle rather than a policy framework for diversity management.