Raquel Zuñiga Bauerle

  Rita Segato is an important anthropologist and feminist activist, she was born in 1951 in Argentina, she graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and currently she lives in Brazil, where she works as a teacher at Universidad de Brasilia.  Segato has dedicated a big part of her life to research about the gender violence, race and coloniality, focusing on a latin and spanish context. Her most remarkable publications are:  “La crítica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos y una antropología por demanda” (2015), “Las estructuras elementales de la violencia” (2003), “El sexo y la norma: frente estatal, patriarcado, desposesión, colonidad.” (2014), “La guerra contra las mujeres”, among others.  Due to her contributions, wich have been in charge of sustaining the feminst theory, make it visible in a scholar and international field and spread it with new approaches and perspectives, that she is considered like one of the most important exponents of the feminst theory in America Latina.  I

     My favorite photograph is a corridor that gave access to an interior courtyard with fruit trees, this belonged to the Estancia Jesuítica Jesús María, which was declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. I took this picture with my phone camera on July 12, 2019, while I spent the winter holidays with my family in Córdoba, Argentina.      The place was very nice and had a lot of history, since the construction dates back to the sixteenth century. What I like about this photo is that the type of lighting and angle from which it was taken give it a disturbing and attention-catching look. It's like I'm alone in a long, dark tunnel. In addition, because of the feeling it conveys, it reminds me of one of my favorite books, El Túnel, by Ernesto Sábato.  

Without a doubt my favorite object is my Kindle, this is a small and very light electronic reader. One of its many advantages and that is also what sets it apart from other devices such as tablets    or ipads, is that it has electronic ink which makes the screen looks like a page of paper. This allows me to be reading more comfortably for a whole day and without getting tired of my eyes or my head hurts, as is often the case with the computer screen. I think that it's a comfortable and friendly way to read without having to print all the texts, buy books or be in front of the screen for a long time. In my career I have to read several texts every week, so this device has really saved my life, plus the battery lasts quite a bit (I charge it every 2 weeks approximately) and being small its size I can easily take it everywhere.