How do you interpret conocimiento and autohistoria? Visually engage in any creative process you’d like to experiment with as you reflect on what this means to you.

"The transformative acts of conocimiento and autohistoria-teoría encourage healing and integration of the self."

This is single sentence that stood out to me most from today's assignment. As I continued to read, I noticed this paragraph:

"Anzaldúa, through her theory of autohistoria-teoría facilitates a coming together of fragmented lived experiences with a holistic perspective including the arts; which resists the traditional notion of art inhabiting a hierarchal privileged world. Anzaldúa’s theories of autohistoria and conocimiento are an embodiment and theorizing in practice through everyday lived experiences. The transformative acts of the conocimiento process initiates conscious work—where the artist (educator, learner, curator, writer, performer, musician) embodies the creative acts (likened to a shapeshifter or shaman) and then manifests the creative work."

All the pieces that intersect in order to bring us to awareness of oneself and then building upon the awareness, setting the stage and then harnessing the power is how I interpret conocimiento & auto-historia.

APA 7th Edition (American Psychological Assoc.)
Sotomayor II, L. C. (2022). Teaching In/Between: Curating Educational Spaces with Autohistoria-Teoría and Conocimiento. Vernon Press.

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In my opinion, the following pictures depict the various states of self-awareness of current social issues. Visual engagement for me is through photographs:

Pic: Child looking up, in wonder at Former First Lady Michelle Obama. (Washington Post, 2018).


Pic: Woman speaking to 15k in NYC. BLM, Transgender Advocate Raquel Willis. (Vogue India, 2020).



Pic: Woman speaking in microphone at a rally which was preceded by a march. Dallas Women's March Co-Chair, Texas Representative Victoria Neave (Dallas). (Dallas Morning News, 2018).





















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