Indigenous Student Council invites you to our second event in our annual Indigenous Women and Trans Series! Join us to hear from Barucha Calamity Peller, writer and photojournalist, for her talk on "Gender, Social Reproduction, and the Oaxaca Commune." This talk will be focused on the historic 2006 popular uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico that galvanized hundreds of thousands of participants who fought against the state and capital for over seven months, in which the resistance of women in particular led to occupations of television and radio stations and maintenance of urban barricades. Peller will discuss the role that gender played in what became the Oaxaca Commune, as well as an analysis of the gender-based repression from the state to the movement itself, and how housewives at the barricades articulated the overcoming of gendered divisions of labor necessary for any serious pre-revolutionary struggle.
Open to all members of the Oberlin campus community
