SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS

first knot to weave the network ‘feminism(s), culture and power. Dialogues from the South’

Abstract

In this article we give an account of the meeting held in 2019 in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, because it represents the first node to build the Feminist Network ‘Feminism(s), Culture and Power. Dialogues from the South’. Here we focus on reflecting on what that meeting was in terms of positioning ourselves as feminists from the South, discussing the conditions and power relations within the universities, locating the axes that can articulate joint work and imagining strategies to heal and continue the feminist struggle, from an intellectual bet that emphasizes the relationship between culture and power. In this way, we build a version of history from our voices and feelings where the network weaves us together and enables us for the intellectual confrontation of our academic commitments and the restorative practices that this implies, including commitments to autonomy, creativity, horizontality and to squat (okupar) spaces.