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Feminists Around the World: Tarcila Rivera Zea · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha and welcome to stephone
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  Speaker 1: never told you ppprecsive of iHeart Radio.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to another feminist around the world. I got
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  Speaker 2: the name straight this time. Are you proud of me?
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  Speaker 2: Because I usually botch it up two or three times
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  Speaker 2: before we even start, But you know from Emberton like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on a roll and just keep going with it
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  Speaker 2: that this is how I am as a professional. So
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  Speaker 2: good even though to kind of stutter into this one,
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  Speaker 2: it's fine. But for today's a feminist around the world.
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  Speaker 2: We are talking about indigenous activists, Tasila, Riviera Zeya. And again,
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  Speaker 2: as we always talk about when we talk about people
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  Speaker 2: we don't hear much about or from other countries, bear
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  Speaker 2: with us on the pronunciations. We try our damnedest to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we get the pronunciation correct. But yes
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  Speaker 2: we are still I'm an American English speaker, so we
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  Speaker 2: suck at accents. I think that's just just an overall
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  Speaker 2: you know capy ont to this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Soaiah is a Peruvian Quechua activist who has dedicated her
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  Speaker 2: life for her indigenous community and for the Amazonian people
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  Speaker 2: of Peru. She was born in San Francisco de Pujas
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  Speaker 2: Vodkas human atje Cuco and has strived to work for
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  Speaker 2: her indigenous community and for other indigenous communities around the
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  Speaker 2: world and in her country. In an interview with DVV International,
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  Speaker 2: she talks about her childhood and growing up as an
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  Speaker 2: indigenous woman. She says, I am Quichua speaking born in
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  Speaker 2: the community of San Francisco de Pujas vodkas human Ajacuco.
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  Speaker 2: My parents died there. They died monolingual and I'm part
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  Speaker 2: of a typical family from the community that in the
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  Speaker 2: post harvest stage, came to the coast to work on
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  Speaker 2: the haciendas to take back some resources for candles, matches,
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  Speaker 2: sugar or salt. It is a community that is still
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  Speaker 2: on the map and an extreme pop I was monolingualed
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  Speaker 2: and studied in public schools, which was characterized by having
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  Speaker 2: its back turn to the knees and culture of our peoples.
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  Speaker 2: At the age of ten, I migrated to Lima, where
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  Speaker 2: I learned a Spanish in completed primary and secondary education,
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  Speaker 2: specifically commercial secondary school. I combined study with work as
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  Speaker 2: a domestic servant. I had a tremendous fixation on wanting
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  Speaker 2: to study. I had various experiences, some more positive, like
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  Speaker 2: respect for my people and identity. I remember one man
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  Speaker 2: from Belgium and he treated me rather more like a folklore. Experience.
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  Speaker 2: From others, I received discriminatory treatment. One of them wanted
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  Speaker 2: me to study at night because that was when domestic
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  Speaker 2: worker studies, and I didn't want to because it was
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  Speaker 2: common knowledge that teaching was not done well at night.
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  Speaker 2: But the people who hired me told me, why do that.
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  Speaker 2: You are a little Indian or Indiasita, and you will
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  Speaker 2: always be one. Unfortunately, our society is exclusionary, racist and prejudiced.
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  Speaker 1: And she has been fighting for justice and inclusion most
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  Speaker 1: of her life. She talked more about some of the
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  Speaker 1: hardship and discrimination she had to deal with while growing
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  Speaker 1: up and how she persevered, saying, when I was in
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  Speaker 1: high school, I was shy. I talked little so that
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  Speaker 1: they would not make fun of my k TWA accents.
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  Speaker 1: I also had a long braid, and they made fun
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  Speaker 1: of me because of my Andean origin. And even so
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  Speaker 1: I was appointed head girl of the school. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was because I always rebelled against injustice. I was
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  Speaker 1: also a member of the school newspaper, and I became
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  Speaker 1: part of the Association of School Journalists from different public
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  Speaker 1: and private schools, and her work for justice has continued
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  Speaker 1: since then. In the seventies, Rivera Zeia worked in the
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  Speaker 1: Ministry of Culture of Peru and would eventually go on
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  Speaker 1: to work as a journalist for the Pueblo Indio magazine
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  Speaker 1: of the Indian Council of South America CISA. It was
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  Speaker 1: during this time she was able to collect stories and
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  Speaker 1: testimonies of the Indigenous women who were sexually assaulted and
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  Speaker 1: abused during armed conflicts, and because of her amazing works,
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  Speaker 1: she was invited to study at the Institute of Social
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  Speaker 1: Studies in the Hague in the International Center of Education
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  Speaker 1: of Human Rights in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah thought fiercely for the rights and safety of Indigenous
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  Speaker 2: women and has not stopped, she told DVV International when
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  Speaker 2: asked about the indigenous community. Most of the women who
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  Speaker 2: left my community worked as domestic servants, many of whom
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  Speaker 2: have been able to study and become professionals. The important
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  Speaker 2: things for us who live in these communities are the
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  Speaker 2: opportunities to be able to exercise the right to a
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  Speaker 2: good education. I am convinced that all Indian and Amazonian
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  Speaker 2: Indigenous women can make great contributions to society, contribute to
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  Speaker 2: economic development, to the solution of the problems that our
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  Speaker 2: country has. For that to happen, we must ensure conditions
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  Speaker 2: so that we can exercise our rights. The right to
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  Speaker 2: an education that recognizes our languages and cultures and an
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  Speaker 2: intercultural education has always been my banner of struggle and aspirations.
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  Speaker 2: Something is moving, but slowly.
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  Speaker 1: And she has parlayed what she had studied as what
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  Speaker 1: she saw as a need for her community into a
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit she founded with Juanita del Rossol in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: six called cheer Apoc. She told you andwomen dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Cheer POC, the nonprofit I found together with one ney
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  Speaker 1: To del Rosal, was born in nineteen eighty six to
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  Speaker 1: support the cultural reaffirmation of Indigenous peoples with a strong
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  Speaker 1: human rights approach, because I could not talk about culture
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  Speaker 1: without talking about its people, and its people were being discriminated, attacked,
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  Speaker 1: and killed. Indigenous women not only need the same opportunities
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  Speaker 1: as everyone else, they need specific opportunities to affirm their
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  Speaker 1: identity and become aware of their own rights. With the
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  Speaker 1: onslaught of climate change, unexpected and frequent droughts, floods and
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  Speaker 1: severe weather conditions are affecting the production of crops and
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  Speaker 1: food security of Indigenous peoples. Indigenous women, not unlike other
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  Speaker 1: rural women, are often farmers and in charge of feeding
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  Speaker 1: their families. Their livelihood and lives are at stake. As
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  Speaker 1: part of the Cheerpock programs, we try to ensure that
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  Speaker 1: Indigenous women can cope with climate change sustainably, for example,
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  Speaker 1: by using organic insecticides, natural fertilizers, and resilient seeds, and
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  Speaker 1: by helping them develop a nutrient filled diet with the
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  Speaker 1: food that they can access.
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  Speaker 2: Conversation reminds me of the conversation we had with the
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  Speaker 2: other conversations with different Indigenous activists and how important it
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  Speaker 2: is to kind of go back to the foods of
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  Speaker 2: the Indigenous people and how it is so important and
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  Speaker 2: we don't feel like we talk about it enough. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they talk about it, but the only time I even
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  Speaker 2: hear about it is when we hear interviews like this
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  Speaker 2: from Indigenous women who come from that culture and community
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  Speaker 2: and understand sustainable food and resources. That's just gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to be a one giant episode, I'm sure, and this
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  Speaker 2: is gonna talk about how Indigenous people could save us
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  Speaker 2: if we would only listen. But you know whatever. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: Along with Chirpak Rivera Zeia also founded the Continental Link
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  Speaker 2: of Indigenous Women of Americas and the International Form of
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  Speaker 2: Indigenous Women, which both promote encouraging and empowering Indigenous women
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  Speaker 2: around the world to become politically involved again all around
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  Speaker 2: the world, and she's still very active today, being involved
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  Speaker 2: with forums all over the world, including Nairobi, Cairo, and Beijing.
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  Speaker 2: She's the president of the International Indigenous Women's Forum as
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty two. In twenty ten, she was awarded
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  Speaker 2: the Order of Merit for Women, and in twenty eleven
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  Speaker 2: she was given the Visionary Award of the Ford Foundation.
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  Speaker 2: From twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen, she was elected and
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  Speaker 2: served as an Expert member of the United Nations Permanent
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  Speaker 2: Forum on Indigenous Issues and BTDUBS. I believe she's still
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  Speaker 2: working closely with the UN, especially spreading the awareness and
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  Speaker 2: the needs of Indigenous women and rights. She recently spoke
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  Speaker 2: with azmth the World of Foundation in twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 2: about the importance of advocating for Indigenous women and fighting
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  Speaker 2: against the violence and abuse against indigenous women, and I
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  Speaker 2: think she talks about how COVID has affected their campaign
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  Speaker 2: as well. Again, this was just recent. You can check
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  Speaker 2: out their series called Connecting the Dots with an interview
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  Speaker 2: with her specifically, and she's speaking English. I'm always impressed
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  Speaker 2: when I'm like, oh my god, how many languages can
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  Speaker 2: you speak? That's amazing, And then I'm like, trying to
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  Speaker 2: still learn Korean. That's fine, that's fine, I'm fine. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the work that she's done is obviously not anywhere near
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  Speaker 2: over and she is continually traveling and speaking for the
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  Speaker 2: rights and the people of our community as well as
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  Speaker 2: the indigenous women all around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Right, which means again I'm sure we will be revisiting
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  Speaker 1: her in the future. But as always, listeners, if you
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