Bodies, Territories, and Feminisms: Latin American Compilation of Political Practices, Theories, and Methodologies (ePub)

in Quito for several years now, a place that has become our space of conspiracies. We place ourselves in Latin American and Caribbean feminism as a site of struggle, invention, creation, transformation and thought. Our gazes weave the link between diverse bodies and territories.

We think of the body as our first territory and we recognise territory in our bodies: when the places where we live are violated, our bodies are affected; when our bodies are affected, the places where we live are violated. We vindicate the importance of the sensitive experience, it is our bodies that embody our life, our memory and it is our senses that connect us with the territories. What happens in the territories is imprinted on the body: the sadness of exploitation, the anguish of contamination, the joy of building other worlds despite so much violence. In the face of dispossession, we try to build bridges between feminism, environmentalism, nature and the territories that allow us to look at the world in a more holistic and sensitive way, and above all that this thinking becomes actions that transform our lives. Often, we do this through bodily methodologies, which try to connect experience with reflections, in order to search for collective strategies of resistance.

We are urban, that is the place from where we look at ourselves, think about ourselves, reproduce our lives and from where we want to build bridges with other territories. We start from different conditions and positions, we review our privileges and we also fight against our oppressions. We do not want to speak for "the others" but from our own experiences, thoughts, rebellions and places in order to generate dialogues and understand each other. We are diverse and therefore we recognize and join other struggles. And we learn from them. We ask ourselves how from our urban places we can contribute to the resistance of other spaces and vice versa. We want to understand the power of the connections between the urban and other territories. We consider it important to weave alliances and establish joint strategies to stop the destruction of our territories-bodies, our planet, our Earth. (https://territorioyfeminismos.org/)