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Brave Women
1812: Cochabamba
Women
“From Cochabamba, many men have fled. Not one woman. On the hillside, a great clamor. Cochabamba’s plebeian women, at bay, fight from the center of a circle of fire.
Surrounded by five thousand Spaniards, they resist with battered tin guns and a few arquebuses: and they fight to the last yell, whose echoes will resound throughout the long war for independence."
- Eduardo Galeano, “Memory of Fire II. Faces And Masks”
Faces and Masks
The American continent is so very often imagined as a thing conquered/tamed by heroic individuals mostly characterized as men – rough, aggressive men who bring a sort of order to this vast expanse.
Many brave women have left their tracks on this continent, too. Read my blog here:
http://angelsmaketheirhopehere.tumblr...
Women
“From Cochabamba, many men have fled. Not one woman. On the hillside, a great clamor. Cochabamba’s plebeian women, at bay, fight from the center of a circle of fire.
Surrounded by five thousand Spaniards, they resist with battered tin guns and a few arquebuses: and they fight to the last yell, whose echoes will resound throughout the long war for independence."
- Eduardo Galeano, “Memory of Fire II. Faces And Masks”
Faces and Masks
The American continent is so very often imagined as a thing conquered/tamed by heroic individuals mostly characterized as men – rough, aggressive men who bring a sort of order to this vast expanse.
Many brave women have left their tracks on this continent, too. Read my blog here:
http://angelsmaketheirhopehere.tumblr...
A Few Whiles
I knew a boy once who thought that, if there was one while, i.e. a unit – a while of time, then surely there were two whiles and three and so on to several. So, often he would say that he’d be back in
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