En nuestro encuentro con Jesusa Rodríguez, ella nos compartió su manera de explicarse el porqué de los movimientos feministas, que han estado ocurriendo hace algunos años. La lucha para terminar con el patriarcado que reduce a las se ha generalizado en muchos países. Sin embargo, para Jesusa no es suficiente la explicación Occidental sobre la […]
The ghost refrain.
Can we be presente in masks? At first it seems impossible. Within the mask not only the face but the heart is encased, one is separate and separated through concealment. Can there be a heartening beneath the hardness of stoicism? Can you be one with a mask (to be me, I have to walk and […]
Running To / Fro
They come pouring off the highway, salt caked to their faces, thousands of them. It looks like some will need medical assistance. Hopefully they have family waiting for them. If not, perhaps they made a friend along the way who can provide support. Some volunteers hand out shawls, others bread, fruit and water. This is the […]
¿Presente? A challenge
Diana Taylor poses a question in her book ¡Presente! that, for me, the central challenge of this course: How to be present ethically, as a scholar, an activist, and a human being—with/ to/ among the many people struggling against a virulent brew of Latin/ American colonial-imperialist- capitalist-authoritarian violence? (Taylor 25) I say challenge, and I mean that […]
The Question of Present(E) Form
“Presente”, to be present, in the present, a wrinkle that merges time and space together, to be present, a call for embodiment and attention to our surroundings, an interpellation of the environment …. shouting to us: “stop… and listen”. Reading Diana Taylor’s text “Presente” is especially relevant in the progression of our class, the text […]
Removing the Mask
In the speech The Place of Indigenous Voice in the 21st Century, Tomson Highway said, “Every plant on Earth…has a role to play in the long survival of the planet.” After hearing Highway, I thought of Octavio Paz’s Mexican Mask, and how the mask is almost like the plants not getting enough water to fully […]
if you can make it there you will make it anywhere
When I woke up today, I lazily got rid of my comfortable and warm Chinese blankets and went to the kitchen to drink my Colombian coffee. I absently skipped through the news on my American computer while trying to explain to my Californian roommate that, despite what she had seen in films, Rio is not a jungle […]
Class 5 Notes from 10/15/2018
Epistemologies – a record of our discussion on 10/15/2018 By Text: “Sp’ijilal O’tan: Knowledges and Epistemologies of the Heart” by Juan López Intzín (Xuno) “Systems of care and healing that include midwifery, dreams…” Systems of knowing differently, and knowing different things. Different systems of knowledge The creation of knowledge through translation Having a “child eye” […]
Sketch of a Pedagogical Eating-lecture
We set our pedagogical project on, at, with, and under the table. We see the table as a setting that, drawing on Paulo Freire, scripts relationality—and for Freire, a radical pedagogical project begins with dialogical relations. However, the table was not our initial point of departure; rather, we arrived at it through hours of dialoguing, […]
Desborde: Overflow and the Politics of Resistance
Desborde: Overflow and the Politics of Resistance Belén Santiago Pedro Luke Mira Our investigation focuses on the edge of the acceptable in protests and politics. Through an array of complementary analytical approaches, we will explore this edge in order to draw broader conclusions on the role of desborde/overflow in the performatives acts of protest, language, […]