- Rosa-Linda Fregoso writes on human rights, gender violence, and cultural politics in the Américas and works as expert... moreRosa-Linda Fregoso writes on human rights, gender violence, and cultural politics in the Américas and works as expert witness for gender asylum cases. Professor Emerita of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz she was the 2014 recipient of the American Studies Association’s Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship in American Studies.edit
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... movie production center, working closely with city officials and offering her studios in San Rafael free of ... 2 As Mike Davis writes:At a New York advertising convention in the early 1930s, the ... On the Subject of Fantasy, in... more
... movie production center, working closely with city officials and offering her studios in San Rafael free of ... 2 As Mike Davis writes:At a New York advertising convention in the early 1930s, the ... On the Subject of Fantasy, in Feminisms in the Cinema, ed. Laura Pietropaolo and Ada ...
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This article documents the protests by mothers of the women victims of feminicide and disappearance in the border city of Juárez México.
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El articulo de la profesora Fregoso es un texto que invita a repensar los derechos humanos, su alcance y extension, al tiempo que pone de manifiesto la vida social que hay debajo de ellos. De ahi la estrategia de una declaracion... more
El articulo de la profesora Fregoso es un texto que invita a repensar los derechos humanos, su alcance y extension, al tiempo que pone de manifiesto la vida social que hay debajo de ellos. De ahi la estrategia de una declaracion pluriversal, que asuma multiples registros de genero y etnicidad, espiritualidad y raza, sexualidad e indigenismo, en el proyecto de acabar con los multiples regimenes de injusticia. La decolonizacion de los derechos humanos permite una practica potencialmente liberadora, en la que estos son imaginados mas alla del marco (neo)liberal de discurso basado en procedimientos formales promulgados por los Estados, para dar cuenta de las multiples apropiaciones creativas de su doctrina en las luchas globales y locales por la justicia social.
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Thank you so much for this invitation and thank you to the coordinators for inviting me and giving me this honor to speak before you. Many of you were at the other session and probably saw the redacted version of the documentary Sehorita... more
Thank you so much for this invitation and thank you to the coordinators for inviting me and giving me this honor to speak before you. Many of you were at the other session and probably saw the redacted version of the documentary Sehorita Extraviada. You saw the beginning and the end basically, so hopefully I can fill in many of the gaps in the documentary. Feminicide, as many of you probably aware, is considered to be Mexico's number one human rights problem: the systematic murder of an nearly 400 poor dark women and the disappearance of over a thousand-this is in just in a little over a decade to 12 years and in just one border city, Ciudad Judrez, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas. Of these 400 murders, roughly 130 share similarities: the victims are young, they're slender, they're dark-haired, they're mixed race and they've been subjected to sexual violence including rape, torture, and strangulation. Their bodies are dumped in remote and sparsely ...
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Al explorar la relación entre cine de mujeres y cines latinoamericanos, este artículo interroga las categorías de cine nacional, cine latinoamericano y cine de mujeres con el fin de superar lógicas geopolíticas, de idiomas, colonialidad,... more
Al explorar la relación entre cine de mujeres y cines latinoamericanos, este artículo interroga las categorías de cine nacional, cine latinoamericano y cine de mujeres con el fin de superar lógicas geopolíticas, de idiomas, colonialidad, y las lógicas industriales del mercado que han creado esas categorías. Partiendo de interrogantes como qué modelo de análisis feminista del cine es adecuado para articular las perspectivas de mujeres en las nuevas formaciones del cine mundial, propongo la utilidad del discurso de la interseccionalidad para un análisis de cine de mujeres que presente una visión alternativa de la nación.
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This essay argues for a decolonial understanding of rights, beyond the conventional definition of human rights premised on a Western cosmology that foregrounds the human as an autonomous individual/agent unyoked by the surrounding world;... more
This essay argues for a decolonial understanding of rights, beyond the conventional definition of human rights premised on a Western cosmology that foregrounds the human as an autonomous individual/agent unyoked by the surrounding world; beyond a circular conception of rights as the individual possession of the human inhering in “his” sovereign being; and beyond the provincial understanding of human and rights as inscribed in law and the state, and as universal and transcendental. I propose a shift in focus away from the liberal doctrine of human rights codified in law and the state, toward alternative, human rights contingencies, as modeled by the collectivist politics of social justice activists and creative practitioners. The practices of artivist collectives affirm a form of rights emphatic expression, an assertion of alternative sensibilities and values. In their collective orientation and civic engagement, collaborative art projects perform an oblique or indirect reference to human rights contexts, and it is precisely this indirection that enacts alternative human rights imaginaries: a pluriversality of human rights not dependent on legalism or the state.
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... State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women 70 angélica cházaro, jennifer ... PART III: NEW CITIZENSHIP PRACTICES Testimonio: Rosa Franco 273 alicia schmidt camacho Ciudadana X ... hansen Feminicidio: Making the Most of an... more
... State: The Writing on the Body of Murdered Women 70 angélica cházaro, jennifer ... PART III: NEW CITIZENSHIP PRACTICES Testimonio: Rosa Franco 273 alicia schmidt camacho Ciudadana X ... hansen Feminicidio: Making the Most of an ''Empowered Term''290 melissa w. wright ...
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This article documents the protests by mothers of the women victims of feminicide and disappearance in the border city of Juárez México.
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In this article I profile filmmakers interviewed as part of the Academy’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA project, starting first with women whose works embody a female perspective in shaping a cinema of her own. This “cinema of her own” is... more
In this article I profile filmmakers interviewed as
part of the Academy’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
project, starting first with women whose works
embody a female perspective in shaping a cinema of
her own. This “cinema of her own” is neither monolithic
nor one-dimensional. It reflects the diversity
of women’s stories, histories, cultures, and languages.
part of the Academy’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
project, starting first with women whose works
embody a female perspective in shaping a cinema of
her own. This “cinema of her own” is neither monolithic
nor one-dimensional. It reflects the diversity
of women’s stories, histories, cultures, and languages.
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This paper addresses the issue of disappearance in Mexico in testimonies given by family members before the Permanent Peoples Tribunal. I served as one of the Judges for the Hearings on Feminicide and Gender Violence.
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This essay is an introduction to the book, The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films by Lourdes Portillo.
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Este artículo "introduce una paradoja que plantea el feminismo frente al 'feminismo carcelario, el cual luchar por la justicia para las mujeres adopta la lógica del Estado carcelario y punitivo."
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This essay addresses the phenomenon of feminicide in Mexico and provides an analytic framework based on an intersectional lens.
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In this Introduction, Fregoso and Bejarano offer an new conceptual framework on feminicide. Drawing from intersectional discourse, feminicide is gender-based violence that implicates individual perpetrators and institutional or state... more
In this Introduction, Fregoso and Bejarano offer an new conceptual framework on feminicide. Drawing from intersectional discourse, feminicide is gender-based violence that implicates individual perpetrators and institutional or state actors. Feminicide is systemic violence rooted in social, political and economic inequalities. The focus of analysis is not solely on gender but on the intersection of gender dynamics with racism and economic injustices on a local and global scale.
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Basandose en entrevistas con la cineasta Lourdes Portillo, se establece un diálogo intersubjetivo donde se "va mostrando cómo puede elevarse el grado e intensidad de la conciencia política a través del cine documental. El análisis del... more
Basandose en entrevistas con la cineasta Lourdes Portillo, se establece un diálogo intersubjetivo donde se "va mostrando cómo puede elevarse el grado e intensidad de la conciencia política a través del cine documental. El análisis del documental se enfocaa en la estructura narrativa y los elementos discursivos del documental, que incluyen el arte de atestiguar, el discurso sobre la verdad y afecto y la estética de tacto."
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My critical assessment of Angela Davis's Women, Race and Class breaks away from 'vertical' modes of narrating the 'nation' or 'race' in feminist theoretical discourse and highlights the 'horizontal' affiliations among women moving across... more
My critical assessment of Angela Davis's Women, Race and Class breaks away from 'vertical' modes of narrating the 'nation' or 'race' in feminist theoretical discourse and highlights the 'horizontal' affiliations among women moving across the intersections of culture, race, nation class and sexuality.
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... The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983), directed by Robert Young, ... By decentering, both through dialogue and form, the main character Gregorio Cortez from the centered-heroic narrative position, Ballad imbues its character with... more
... The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983), directed by Robert Young, ... By decentering, both through dialogue and form, the main character Gregorio Cortez from the centered-heroic narrative position, Ballad imbues its character with 'common-hero' qualities. ...
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Esta retrospectiva crítica analiza la obra cinematográfica de la directora latina, Lourdes Portillo, empezando con su primer film de cortometraje, Después del terremoto (1979), codirigido por Nina Serrano hasta uno de sus más recientes... more
Esta retrospectiva crítica analiza la obra cinematográfica de la
directora latina, Lourdes Portillo, empezando con su primer film de
cortometraje, Después del terremoto (1979), codirigido por Nina Serrano hasta
uno de sus más recientes documentales, Señorita Extraviada, (2001). Las
películas de Lourdes Portillo plantean una serie de aspectos pertinentes para el
feminismo descolonial/poscolonial y son emblemáticas del amplio espectro de
las preocupaciones sociales, culturales y políticas de las artistas feministas y
latinas. En todas sus obras, Portillo adopta una amplia visión transnacional,
colocando a la mujer en el centro de sus historias y documentando las políticas
económicas neoliberales, el legado de violencia de los regímenes militares, así
como el vínculo de la violencia de género con las estructuras de dominación en
la vida cotidiana de las mujeres.
directora latina, Lourdes Portillo, empezando con su primer film de
cortometraje, Después del terremoto (1979), codirigido por Nina Serrano hasta
uno de sus más recientes documentales, Señorita Extraviada, (2001). Las
películas de Lourdes Portillo plantean una serie de aspectos pertinentes para el
feminismo descolonial/poscolonial y son emblemáticas del amplio espectro de
las preocupaciones sociales, culturales y políticas de las artistas feministas y
latinas. En todas sus obras, Portillo adopta una amplia visión transnacional,
colocando a la mujer en el centro de sus historias y documentando las políticas
económicas neoliberales, el legado de violencia de los regímenes militares, así
como el vínculo de la violencia de género con las estructuras de dominación en
la vida cotidiana de las mujeres.
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In the following pages, I reflect upon the utility of the category, feminicide, evaluating the work that it does for women's human rights scholarship and legal advocacy. These reflections are indebted to lively exchanges with audience... more
In the following pages, I reflect upon the utility of the category, feminicide, evaluating the work that it
does for women's human rights scholarship and legal advocacy. These reflections are indebted to
lively exchanges with audience members from women's rights organizations, universities,
community centers and human rights forums who asked many provocative questions that
immensely deepened my own thinking about these issues.
does for women's human rights scholarship and legal advocacy. These reflections are indebted to
lively exchanges with audience members from women's rights organizations, universities,
community centers and human rights forums who asked many provocative questions that
immensely deepened my own thinking about these issues.
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Al explorar la relación entre cine de mujeres y cines latinoamericanos, este artículo interroga las categorías de cine nacional, cine latinoamericano y cine de mujeres con el fin de superar lógicas geopolíticas, de idiomas, colonialidad,... more
Al explorar la relación entre cine de mujeres y cines latinoamericanos, este artículo interroga las categorías de cine nacional, cine latinoamericano y cine de mujeres con el fin de superar lógicas geopolíticas, de idiomas, colonialidad, y las lógicas industriales del mercado que han creado esas categorías. Partiendo de interrogantes como qué modelo de análisis feminista del cine es adecuado para articular las perspectivas de mujeres en las nuevas formaciones del cine mundial, propongo la utilidad del discurso de la interseccionalidad para un análisis de cine de mujeres que presente una visión alternativa de la nación.
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Escrito por Rosa-Linda Fregoso y Cynthia Bejarano, esta introducción a nuestra colección desarrolla un marco analítico feminista que situa el concepto "feminicidio" en su contexto histórico, político, social y cultural