Feeling Collective: The Queer Politics of Affect in the Riot Grrrl Movement, Kate Siegfried In the article “Feeling Collective: The Queer Politics of Affect in the Riot Grrrl Movement”, Kate Siegfried coherently outlines the Riot Grrrl movement by showcasing its history and its effect on popular culture. She begins by highlighting what this underground movementContinue reading “Somos Mulheres Não Utensílios: Riot Grrrl in Brazil”
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Just as most of my female classmates this week, reading Josefinas article was quite difficult. As her ideas are not…
The transition period for any person or collective is always a difficult one, especially when your don’t fully transition as you would when doing a 180 degree turn. She could argue that in the case of post-liberation, new nations and republics simply did a 360 degree circle, concluding where their initial actions begot. In reading […]
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Though slavery is not widely accepted throughout the Americas, the ideology behind it still exists. It exists in the way…
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I believe I would have had a very hard time living in a world where women were as Josefi na Pelliza de Sagasta described it. One where “Entirely free women, with as much independence as men, would lose their greatest charms and the poetic prestige of their weakness.” If I’m brutally honest, that was probablyContinue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic”
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I believe I would have had a very hard time living in a world where women were as Josefi na Pelliza de Sagasta described it. One where “Entirely free women, with as much independence as men, would lose their greatest charms and the poetic prestige of their weakness.” If I’m brutally honest, that was probablyContinue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republic”
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For this blog post I want to focus on “Brushstrokes” by María Eugenia Echenique. I first want to say that I love how her text begins: “I have held my pen in hand for five minutes, and I still do not know what I am going to write about.” Right from the very beginning I […]
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This week’s lecture brought up that there is a gap between the abstract domain of rights and the practical integration of them. Even then, once they are incorporated, it may be for alternative motives. For example, Dawson noted how some formerly enslaved black slave owners in Haiti embraced emancipation not for the virtue of it […]
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After this week’s lecture, I decided to take some time to reflect on the first question about how the history of slavery shape the Americas and also on feminism in the Americas at the time. For starters, we constantly see reminders of systemic racism not only in the modern day Americas, but all over theContinue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics”
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The imposition of a hierarchy is essential to the colonial operation. It sets up a “perfect” to rule over the “imperfect”. How then does a previous colonial state move away from this embedded hierarchy? Slavery is a clear example of the colonial caste system in Latin America. It distinguishes a class of people as propertyContinue reading “Week 6: Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics”
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