Brainstorm Week 8 - Carter Rowell

The emancipation movements in Ecuador are very similar to resilience practices of Chicanas, as they both involve fighting for rights and growing even in the face of historical oppression. In both cases, there is a refusal to give up, a refusal to stop fighting for what they believe in. Both movements have seen "historical struggles against the persistence of colonial-imperial matrices of power" (Walsh 5), and they have had to be resilient through it all and continue the generation-spanning work to improve society. 
The idea of treating Mother Earth as a being with life also coincides with the idea of caring about all life around oneself, not only caring about the self. This is similar to the concept of covivencia in the way that it gives everyone a space in society to live to the full extent of happiness and fights back against social death. The time for selfishness is over, and it is time to respect all life and make society a place where all life can have happiness, even non-human life. As the new Ecuadorian constitution says, the earth "has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its natural cycles" (New York Times 3).
These movements are also similar to Chicanxfuturism in the way that that the ideas and methods are not static; they evolve with society and always fight for the improvement of society. Each moment in history requires different responses, and the various responses by the Chicana movement and the Ecuadorian movement are examples of responses that are tailored to specific historic situations.