I wish to be a death maiden

Hey again, two posts in a day! wow, I am impressed whit myself. This time I want to talk about a photo that really amazes me, not as much as because of the incredible moment in the history of science it represents, but even more because of all the theories and conspiracies that has behind it, one of them sais that it was all a faux and that the landing was staged so the Americans could get ahead in the space race against the Russians. I am talking about the Apollo 11´s journey, the infamous lunar landing and the photos taken on July 20 of 1969.                                             https://images.nasa.gov/details-6900952.html In this photo, in particular, we can see the astronaut Edwin Aldrin on the surface of the moon. You can see footprints in the soil, and parts of some equipment in the corner of the picture. The deep blackness of space can be ...

Yesterday, during a car drive with my family late at night, the topic of feminism came up, as it has been coming up lately with the sit-in in the faculty.  My father asked me why if our instincts as women tell us to be mothers, feminist women think that is society that is making us being mothers even if we don't want to? I was perplexed for a minute because people in general disesteem how powerful the susception of patriarchal-neoliberal society is - in our case and society and culture, in general, in the way we act, think and feel about everything in our lives. We have a false sense of individualism and autonomy of ourselves that we - as a society think that stereotypes, bias and discrimination can't apply to us if we don't let them. As an anthropologist, it had been made clear over and over again for me that our birth in this society means that we operate with the prejudices and categories that this society has.   The only thing that we can do to change...