Feminist movements from the Americas provide some of the most innovative, visible, and all-encompassing forms of organizing and resistance. With their diverse backgrounds, these movements address sexism, sexualized violence, misogyny, racism, homo- and transphobia, coloniality, extractivism, climate crisis, and neoliberal capitalist exploitation as well as the interrelations of these systems. Fighting interlocking axes of oppression, feminists from the Americas represent, practice, and theorize a truly "intersectional" politics. Feminisms in Movement: Theories and Practices from the Americas brings together a wide variety of perspectives and formats, spanning from the realms of arts and activism to academia. Black and decolonial feminist voices and queer/cuir perspectives, ecofeminist approaches and indigenous women's mobilizations inspire future feminist practices and inform social and cohabitation projects.With contributions from Rita Laura Segato, Mara Viveros Vigoya, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, and interviews with Anielle Franco (Brazilian activist and minister) and with the Chilean feminist collective LASTESIS
Contents
Introduction
Julia Roth, Edith Otero Quezada and Livia de Souza Lima.......................................9
Partl
Theorizations and Epistemic Dialogues
The Coloniality of Gender
Maria Lugones........................................................................................... 35
Coloniality and Modern Patriarchy
Expansion of the State Front, Modernization, and the Lives of Women
Rita Laura Segato....................................................................................... 59
A Decolonial Critique of Feminist Epistemology Critique
Yuderkys Espinosa-Minoso............................................................................ 79
From the Center to the Margins, (Re)Politicizing Intersectionality
Mara Viveros Vigoya................................................................................... 91
The Feminist and Decolonial Pedagogy of Lelia Gonzalez and Sueli Carneiro
Livia de Souza Lima 107
Gender-Based Political Violence as a Global Phenomenon
Latin-American Pioneerism, the Brazilian Exception,
and the Silence of the Global North
Ligia Fabris............................................................................................... 117
An Analysis of the 11J Protests in Cuba from a Black Feminist Criminal
Abolitionist Perspective
Sondra Heidi............................................................................................. 133
Territory Body - Body Territory
Julieta Paredes Carvajal............................................................................ 147
Part II
Embodied Experiences and Knowledge Productions
Ties that Bind
Black Women Candidates and Familial Influence on Political Socialization
in the US
Nadia E. Brown and India S. Lenear................................................................. 161
"Vamos destruir esse patriarcado, eu creio!"
Inter-American Networks and Articulations of Feminism on Social Media
Saskia Bante.......................................................................173
Intersectional Praxis and Socio-Political Transformation at the Colombian
Truth Commission in the Caribbean Region
Audes Jimenez Gonzalez and Juliana Gonzalez Villamizar................................... 187
Reconstructing Women’s Contemporary Political Struggles across the Central
American Region
Edith Otero Quezada and Fatima Elizondo Rodriguez.......................................... 201
Writing Western Nicaragua’s LGBTQ+ History
Tiangues, Indigeneity, and Survivance
Victoria Gonzalez-Rivera............................................................................... 215
Conceptual Tensions within a Cuir [Queer]-Feminist Sociological Approach
to Sexuality in Mexico
Cesar Torres-Cruz and Hortensio Moreno-Esparza............................................. 227
"May Our Voice Echo"
Housemaids' Narratives in Eu, Empregada Domestics
Larissa Satico Ribeiro Higa......................................................................... 239
Indigenous Literature and Ecofeminism in Brazil
Anna-Lena Giesinski.................................................................................. 249
Environmental Knowledges in Resistance
Mobilization, (Re)Production, and the Politics of Place. The Case of the
Cooperativa Mujeres Ecologistas de la Huizachera, Jalisco (Mexico)
Daniela Gloss Nunez and Itxaso Garcia Chapinal................................................ 261
Part III
Feminist Conversations
Set Fear on Fire!
A Conversation with the Collective LASTESIS on Aesthetic, Performance and
Feminist Resistant Practices
Edith Otero Quezada and Livia de Souza Lima.................................................. 277
Marielle Presente!
Defending the Memory and Legacy of Marielle Franco in Brazil.
An Interview with Anielle Franco
Livia de Souza Lima, Julia Roth and Edith Otero Quezada................................... 283
Feminist Activism and Constitutional Change in Chile
A Conversation with Maria Jose Oyarzun Solis
Nicole Schwabe......................................................................................... 291
"Rap is Our Best Feminist Tool"
Interview with the Cuban Hip Hop Duo La Reyna y La Real
Julio Roth 295
Memory, Re-Imagination and Commemoration
Bridging Academia and Activism. An Interview with Afua Cooper
Safa Af-Dilaimi.......................................................................................... 301
Intuitive Feminism
Mona Galindo............................................................................................ 313
Contributors............................................................................................321