Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla (she-they) (COL/NL) aka as La ChicaScratch is a choreographer, performance artist, educator and queer grassroots organiser. Their artistic research investigates social phenomena in a journalistic way -censorship and resistance, gender issues, the commodification of art and social movements in neoliberal societies- and transforms these findings into performances, video, writings or installations. They studied at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) and at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. In 2019 Chaves Bonilla was awarded the 3Package Deal fund for International Talents by AFK for the ‘Engaged Art’ coalition and from 2020 to 2023 they were house artist at Veem House for Performance. Their works have been presented at Moving Futures Festival (Amsterdam), Theater Aan Zee (Oostende), My Wild Flag Festival - MDT Moderna Dansteatern (Stockholm), Theater Spektakel (Zürich), Impulstanz (Vienna), Productiehuis TR (Rotterdam), Het Hem (Zaandam), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Kondenz Festival (Belgrade), S.P.I.T. Festival - TQ Tanzquartier (Vienna), Framer Framed (Amsterdam) and Seki Sano (Bogotá). In 2020 Chaves Bonilla founded Papaya Kuir, a grassroots lesbotransfeminist collective led by Latinx trans and queer migrants/refugees. Together they organise workshops, art projects and festivals to celebrate the emergence of diasporic Latinx culture, foster a sense of belonging among queer and trans migrants and create spaces of solidarity, collective pleasure and social transformation.