The Indigenous woman known as La Malinche— the enslaved interpreter who later had a child with Hernán Cortés—has long been cast in Mexico as a symbol of betrayal, her name synonymous with traitor or sellout. But who was she, really? Drawing on Indigenous accounts and recent scholarship, Noris Binet offers a far more nuanced portrait […]
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The Virginal State and the Age of the Feminine I grew up questioning the status of women in the Church, which in the Dominican Republic, where I was born, is predominantly the Roman Catholic Church, as it is also in Mexico, where I now live. Even though supposedly the son of God was born of
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A Heroine’s Journey The current social system has favored a vertical perspective in which the achievement of goals is emphasized, and the importance of process is sacrificed. Only the result, the product, the visible and tangible material, is valued, not the internal source from which all creative endeavor springs. We must find new ways of
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