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Speaking the silence(d) -- Untameable women -- Silence -- Becoming woman -- Knowing (our) selves -- Our serpents' tongues -- Sacred erotics -- The black mothers -- The storyteller-medicine woman -- The guardian-garderner -- The priestess-Shamanka -- Homecoming -- Liminal subjects -- For you

"Constructing Twenty-first Century Socialism in Latin America argues that is it time to open our horizons to the "how" of contructing pathways to 21st century socialism. The authors undertake to do so by studying traditions, practices, counter-hegemony of governments in Venezuela, critical educators in formal education settings in three countries, social movements in Brazil and Colombia, and the Colombian student movement. The book suggests pathways towards revolutionary epistemological practices and pedagogical-political projects which decolonize our hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits creating worlds beyond capitalism"--

Decolonial/anti-colonial Black, Indigenous and Mestiza feminist movements and scholar-activists foreground how the oft-touted apocalypse that the Covid-19 pandemic heralds is not new, nor does it signify the great rupture into chaos that those from within modernity-coloniality often claim it to be. Rather Covid-19 is preceded by and will be out-lived by the apocalyptic anti-life onto-epistemological logics that are foundational to the (re)production of hetero-patriarchal capitalist-(settler) coloniality. However, one would commit the violence of reproduction of the epistemological logics and (ir)rationalities constitutive of the current system if the story ended there. We have survived (despite our losses) and our survival points to the urgent necessity and responsibility of (critical) social theory to listen to the story of the pandemic from a Black/Indigenous genealogy and to begin the sense-making of the Covid-19 pandemic, from prior to this particular virus, outside, against and beyond the politics of knowledge of critical social theory itself. Thus, I invite you to journey to an affirmative re-enfleshment of reason and theory-making in relation to and dialogue with Black, Indigenous, and subaltern Mestiza feminist movements in southwest Colombia and in southeast so-called Australia in the unceded lands of the Awabakal and the Worimi. I explore this through the metaphor, the materiality, the cosmology and the herstory of the mangrove swamps a knowing-being otherwise (in)visible to the dehumanising gave of Whiteness and bring to thought three stories of a politics of knowledge of/as the Black/racialised and feminised body/flesh. To do this is to suggest that the co-creation of pathways which are life affirming and life making beyond and out of the post-Covid 19 conjuncture involves an epistemological-political project which decolonises and feminises the containments of reason and knowing (non)being of coloniality/modernity.

An initial mapping of the decolonial feminisms emergent in Buenaventura and Cali, Southwest Colombia, in the Afro-Colombian and indigenous political Escuela de Mariposas de Alas Nuevas and Círculo de Hombres, Cali, shows that they move within and beyond a politics and epistemology of representation in a return to the enfleshed as territories of transformatory wisdoms and the embrace of ancestrality and feminist spirituality. Un mapeo inicial de los feminismos decoloniales surgidos en Buenaventura y Cali, en el suroeste de Colombia, dentro de las agrupaciones políticas afrocolombianas e indígenas Escuela de Mariposas de Alas Nuevas y Círculo de Hombres, Cali, muestra que se mueven dentro y fuera de una política y epistemología de representación y ejercen un retorno a lo encarnado como territorios de sabidurías transformadoras a la vez que abrazan la ancestralidad y la espiritualidad feminista.

Latin American social movements are reinventing emancipatory politics, in which those invisibilised and excluded by capitalist‐coloniality are emerging as the emancipatory subjects of our times. Rather than a method of learning, pedagogy is understood as a radical educational project of subaltern transformation and politics. Emancipatory pedagogical praxis occurs in multiple spatialities and embraces multiple knowledges and subaltern subjects. These knowing‐subjects become creators of political agency, movement practices and imaginaries, and collective self‐liberation. I develop my analysis with reference to movement educators who I work with in the Brazilian Movimento sem Terra (MST,
Landless Workers Movement) and Colombian Escuela Política de Mujeres Pazífica (Political School of Pacifist Women, Escuela).

Abstract: This article challenges orthodox Marxistconceptualisations of the revolutionary subject by buildingon the autonomist Marxist feminist tradition now inits fourth decade. It argues that by expanding our conceptualisationof capitalist relations to include the sphereof social reproduction, the creation of a gendered divisionof labour and the construction of alienated subjectivitieswe open a window on the multiple subjects that areat the heart of contemporary anti-capitalist struggles andrender visible an increasing feminisation of resistance inLatin America. Through an analysis of the narratives ofthree women participants in the Urban Land Committees(CTUs) in Venezuela we see that women are at the heartof struggles to re-define the practice of politics, createnew democratic subjectivities, and re-invent social transformation,processes in which woman, family and communityare renegotiated and re-imagined. This analysisdemonstrates the urgent need to reinvigorate a Marxistfeminist praxis that can make visible, contribute to andtheorise in solidarity with contemporary forms of anticapitaliststruggle.Key Words: autonomous Marxist feminism, gender,subjectivity, Venezuelan womenReinventando los sujetos revolucionarios en VenezuelaResumen: Este articulo desafia las conceptualizacionesortodoxas marxistas del sujeto revolucionario conbase en la tradicion Marxista feminista autonoma que seencuentra en su cuarta decada. Arguye que al expandirnuestra conceptualizacion de las relaciones capitalistaspara incluir la esfera de la reproduccion social, la creacionde una division del trabajo generizada y la construccionde subjetividades alienadas, abrimos una ventanasobre los sujetos multiples que son centrales para las luchasanti-capitalistas contemporaneas y que hacen visibleuna feminizacion cada vez mayor de la resistencia enAmerica Latina. A traves de un analisis de las narrativasde tres mujeres participantes de los Comites de TierrasUrbanas (CTUs) en Venezuela, vemos que las mujeresson de importancia central en las luchas para redefinirla practica de la politica, crear nuevas subjetividades democraticas,reinvigorar y re-inventar la transformacionsocial, asi como los procesos en los cuales se renegociany re-imaginan mujer, familia, y comunidad. Este analisisdemuestra la necesidad urgente de reinvigorar la practicafeminista marxista que puede hacer visible formascontemporaneas de lucha anti-capitalista, contribuir aesas formas de lucha y teorizarlas.Palabras clave: feminismo marxista autonomo, genero,subjetividad, mujeres venezolanas