Una meditación sobre la creación de libertad
en la academia para mujeres de color.
Tejiendo la narrativa personal y el análisis político, La comunidad como rebelión
nos ofrece una meditación de cómo crear espacios de liberación para estudiantes y profesores de color en la academia. Al igual que otras académicas de
color, Lorgia García Peña ha luchado en contra de las estructuras colonizadoras,
racializantes, clasistas y las desiguales que perpetúan la violencia dentro de las
universidades. La autora invita a sus lectoras a rebelarse a través de protestas,
boicots y la práctica radical de co-creación de comunidades que nos ayuden a
combatir la explotación y tokenización que existen en el mundo académico.
A meditation on freedom-making in the academy for women scholars of color.
Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, Lorgia García Peña has struggled against the colonizing, racializing, classist, and unequal structures that perpetuate systemic violence within universities. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections, the author invites readers—in particular Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott, abolition, and radical community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures.
García Peña argues that the classroom is key to freedom-making in the university, urging teachers to consider activism and social justice as central to what she calls “teaching in freedom”: a progressive form of collective learning that prioritizes the subjugated knowledge, silenced histories, and epistemologies from the Global South and Indigenous, Black, and brown communities. By teaching in and for freedom, we not only acknowledge the harm that the university has inflicted on our persons and our ways of knowing since its inception, but also create alternative ways to be, create, live, and succeed through our work.
