Afya- Centro holístico da mulher (Afya- Women’s Holistic Center) is holistic healing center and non-governmental organization located in the neighborhood of Alto do Mateus, João Pessoa, state of Paraíba, Brazil. The...
The scholarship surrounding social change within movements is largely geared toward studying heated moments of contestation and their ability to spark social and systemic alternatives. But in order to fully understand their...
Carolina Maria de Jesus literary works play an integral role in the development of Black feminism in Brazil. In both her texts, Child of the Dark and Bitita’s Diary she uses her writing as a fundamental tool for individual and...
For over 70 years the Colombian government has struggled with legitimizing its rule over the entirety of its dominions. Whether enveloped in a civil war (1948-1958) or battling transnational organizations like insurgency groups...
High maternal mortality rates in Latin America are an issue that affects indigenous communities disproportionately when compared to their non-indigenous counterparts. In Ecuador, the Andean Kichwa indigenous community faces...
The growing share of women migrating for reasons of work—a trend conceptualized as the feminization of labor migration—has increasingly become a matter of interest in migration studies. This paper seeks to visibilize Bolivian...
As markets are growing and borders are shrinking, the different corners of the world are becoming increasingly in contact with one another. But what is the nature of the interactions that result? For this thesis, I examine...
The Ni Una Menos (Not One Less) movement was a march of over 200,000 people that took place in front of the Argentine National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 3, 2015. A group of Argentine women journalists...
This investigation uses the 1976 coup d’état as its basis to examine how Argentine society transformed its memory of the events that occurred during this time period into social activism. I base my research in the study of...