Brainstorm Week 8

After reading the articles from this week, we learned more about how grassroots feminist movements are connected to indigenous struggles for emancipation in Ecuador. There are many practices and movements of providing nature with rights which are connected to resilience. In Ecuador Constitution Grants Rights to Nature, Andrew Revkin quotes from the Constitution, "nature 'has the right to exist, persisit, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution' " (Revikin, 2008). This demonstrates how Ecuador moved towards protecting la panchamama or Mother Earth which is a step towards a more sustainable future. This relates to resilience practices because this step essentially humanizes Earth giving it more importance and rights. In Afro and Indigenous Life- Visions in/and Politics. (De)colonial Perspectives in Bolivia and Ecuador, Catherine Walsh mentions "Indigenous and Afro 'cosmo' or life-visions are holistic in that they conceive life and living with regard to the totality, unite the material and spiritual and promote a practice of co-existence and 'living with' across difference" (Walsh, 56). This illustrates how many communities recognize the importance of sustaining and "co-existing" with la panchamama since humans are so dependent on it. This is related to ideas such as Chicanxfuturism since technology and social media are the primary means of driving forward legislation to battle issues such as better treating la panchamama.