Sandoval – Lecture 3 – The Feminist Third World Liberation (The Conocimiento)

How to create InterCultural Coalitions?

THE CONOCIMIENTO = Inner Work / Public Acts

- To change negativities into strengths; to heal the traumas of racism and other systemic desconocimientos. You look beyond the illusions of separate interests to a shared interest – your in this together, no one’s an isolated unit.

Tu camino de conocimiento requires that you encounter your shadow side and confront what you’ve programmed yourself & been programmed by your cultures to avoid (desconocer), to confront the traits more from a militarized zone to a round table --> To develop the courage to witness yourself.

The extension of consciousness -->  Systemic change across all fields of knowledge

The binaries … are collapsing:

Mind                                            Body

Colored                                       White

Male                                            Female

                   NEPANTLA

                    (3^rd Space)

• ·      interconnectivity
• ·      enact a retribalization by recognizing
• ·      new tribalism

Based on the literature in the sillabus of Gloria Anzaldúa (2002). “Now Let Us Shift: The Path of Conocimiento...Inner Work, Public Acts,” from This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, New York: Routledge.


Marlou Kummu (from Netherlands) suggested to compare this work with The Kübler-Ross Stages of Grief, which can be seen here and here.

The complete audio for this session is here.