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Otroa Compañeroas | Gender fluidity: A contemporary emergence with ancestral roots
By Sylvia Marcos Published originally in Camino al andar. June 20, 2021. … we know well that there are those who are neither men nor women and that we call them Otroas … and it has not been easy for…
Read MoreBreak the Siege, Fight for Life
For a new internationalism of the oppressed. By Arturo Anguiano, published by Camino al andar The rebels of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) have once again broken through the siege, by setting off on a trip around the…
Read MoreZapatista women’s March 8 message
Elio Henríquez, La Jornada correspondent San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. On International Women’s Day, Indigenous women from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) transmitted a text titled “Those Who Are Not Here.” The text, transmitted by the EZLN’s…
Read MoreTeófila, armed with courage, the first Indigenous woman film-maker in Mexico
Her documentary from 35 years ago warned that the refinery would contaminate the sea and do away with fishing. It hurts her that technology has changed human beings and that they don’t think about their culture. Oaxaca, Oaxaca (pagina3.mx). Teofila,…
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