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Reflections Toward a Depatriarchal and Non-hierarchical Academia
Statement for depatriarchal and non-hierarchical worlds
After the publication of the interview with the Weychafe, compañera and intellectual, Moira Millán, in the newspaper El Salto, as well as the chapter entitled “The walls spoke when no one else would: Autoethnographic notes on sexual-power gatekeeping within avant-garde academia” (Viaene, Laranjeiro y Tom), we cannot remain silent. We also have to point out that we have been raising our voices for many years through concrete personal and collective actions within our academic, university, activist and organizational spaces, as well as in our collectives, networks and movements. We denounce and challenge the hierarchies of knowledge/power intrinsic to the academy, and the gender violence, harassment and sexual abuse in those institutions. At the same time, we recognize that all we have done is insufficient and requires us to continue, redoubling our efforts, weaving together more and more struggles, and to root out the violence that underlines ongoing wars and the violations of women, children, Mother Earth, all those who are othered.
We should not forget that patriarchy is the oldest form of domination. Humanity learned to dominate the female body in all cultures, as the diverse feminisms of Afro/Abya-Yala/Latin America affirm. Patriarchy is an onto-epistemic configuration that privileges hierarchy, appropriation, denial of others, control, the fetishism of things, reproduction, violence and wars. It deeply shapes subjectivities and affects the lives of everyone. Academia has been one of its most effective pillars through its creation of an instrumental, objectifying, competitive and hierarchical worldview which naturalizes and invisibilizes practices of knowledge/power.
The civilizational crisis that the planet Earth is experiencing is the result of cis-heteropatriarchy in its historical entanglement with capitalism, colonialism, anthropocentrism, and racial, sexual and ableist hierarchies. This is the complex background that we invoke when denouncing the multiple forms of violence exercised against women, which have been constant throughout history. This background unleashed the Terricide (Moira Millán), a powerful cosmopolitical concept coined by the Movement of Indigenous Women and Diversities for Good Living [Movimiento de Mujeres y Diversidades Indígenas por el Buen Vivir], which has its origin in Puelmapu a decade ago.
(Español) Comunicado de prensa UCIZONI, ejidatarios desaparecidos tras su detención durante el desalojo del campamento Tierra y Libertad
UCIZONI INFORMA
28 de abril de 2023.
15.00 horas. Después del violento desalojo sufrido por campesinos y campesinas mixes de Mogoñe Viejo afectados por las obras de modernización del ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec a manos de decenas de elementos de la Secretaria de Marina, de la Policía estatal y de la Guardia Nacional,y donde fueron detenidas 4 ejidatarias y 2 ejidatarios informamos que las detenidas no aparecen y se presume que fueron trasladadas a la capital del estado de Oaxaca.
También comunicamos que se establecio desde las 12.40 horas un bloqueo carretero a la altura del puente Malatengo, mismo que ha sufrido intimidaciones por parte de la Secretaria de la Marina; también se reinstalo el Campamento TierrayLibertad. Organizaciones internacionales de derechos humanos y decenas de organizaciones nacionales estan manifestando su indignación por el ataque sufrido esta mañana contra ejidatarios y ejidatarias mixes de Mogoñe Viejo y exigen la inmediata liberaciónde las detenidas.
Atentamente PCI-UCIZONI
