5/27 Questions - Haleh Mawson

1. Esperanza Martinez says that capitalism renders the work of women invisible in order to exploit their labour. She connects this to capitalist perspectives on nature, and later the video connects it again to Indigenous communities. Does this seem fair? That the issue is imposed invisibility, and the solution is to call attention?

2. Luz María de la Torre Amaguana refers to the runa, which means human being but has taken on a derogatory connotation (similar to the word mutt, I think) when used by non-Indigenous folk. Is that analogous to how derogatory words in the US like queer have been reclaimed by those saddled with the epithets?

3. The activists in Jenkins's interviews drew on their "natural affinity with the land as women and mothers" to explain why they opposed the mines, and as a tactic for gaining support for their cause. The most classic claim of Western feminism is that a woman can do whatever a man can. Is the idea of something essential and different about being female in conflict with our notion of no relevant difference between the sexes? Or are the complementary?

On the topic of the Refinery29 video: I had a dream a few nights ago where I finally found yuca in a grocery and I was absolutely delighted, because fried yuca is one of my favorite things. I woke up before I was able to cook it, though, so now I'm just craving it all the more.