Maria Lugones Quotes
Maria Lugones was an Argentine-American philosopher, long associated with Binghamton University, and a foundational figure in decolonial feminism and Latina philosophy. Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes developed her notion of world-traveling as the practice by which oppressed subjects move between the multiple worlds in which they are differently constituted, while her later essays on the coloniality of gender argued that the modern category of gender itself is a colonial imposition, inseparable from the racialized division of labor of the conquest. The quotes below are attributed to Maria Lugones, organized by topic.
Maria Lugones on Freedom
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Attributed to Maria Lugones:
“Resistance is what survives in the cracks of dominant systems.”
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“There are many worlds in any one social space, and the oppressed move between them.”
Maria Lugones on Knowledge
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“Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions (2003), p. 109”
Anger has been excluded from the dominant group's profile of subordinates. When one gets angry, according to Spelman , one regards the person whose conduct one assesses as one's equal. So, we can understand why anger has been excluded from the personality profile of the subordinate. In excluding anger from their personality profile, dominant groups exclude subordinates from the category of moral a
Maria Lugones on Love
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Attributed to Maria Lugones:
“World-traveling is a skill, and a form of love, exercised by those whom the world does not arrange itself for.”
Maria Lugones on Politics
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“Gender, as we know it, is a colonial imposition.”
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“Coalition begins not in unity but in faithful witnessing across difference.”
Maria Lugones on Virtue
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“Aristotle makes it clear that the slave can only obey or follow orders, but cannot reason his own syllogism. The master reasons and the slave does. For that reason, it is difficult to imagine the slave after working hours except as an animal: resting, eating, roaming around, copulating. But these are not human acts when performed by the after-hours slave since they are not acts that are the end of practical syllogisms and only these are open to the kind of evaluation that Aristotle offers when he talks of practical wisdom and moral virtue.”
p. 56