Julieta Paredes Carvajal (born c. 1967) is an Aymara

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n poet, singer-songwriter, writer, graffiti artist,

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and decolonial feminist activist. In 2003 she began ''Mujeres creando comunidad'' (women creating community) out of the activism of community feminism.

Career

Julieta Paredes was born in the city of

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. In 1992, she and her then-partner María Galindo founded the

Mujeres Creando Mujeres Creando (''English language, Eng: Women Creating'') is a Bolivian anarcha-feminism, anarcha-feminist collective that participates in a range of anti-poverty work, including propaganda, street theater and direct action. The group was founde ...

movement. Her relationship with Galindo ended in 1998, and in 2002 there was a division of the organization. In 2003, she initiated the so-called ''Mujeres creando comunidad'', because, as she explained in 2008, "Autonomous and Anarchist feminism was no longer enough." Julieta Paredes Carvajal is the author of the book ''Hilando fino desde el feminismo comunitario'' (2008), in which she delves into notions such as equality between women and men in the context of indigenous culture, her position on Western feminism, colonialism, and neoliberalism, and the role of the body and sexuality in the liberation of women. She defines herself as an "Aymara feminist lesbian".

Community feminism

Paredes is part of a movement called "community feminism", based on the participation of women and men in a community without a hierarchical relationship between the groups, but with both having an equivalent level of political representation. This conception of feminism, Paredes says, moves away from the individualism characteristic of contemporary society. Community feminism questions

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, not only colonial but also the patriarchy that derives from one's own cultures and that has also marked a double standard for women. In this sense, they reproach Indianism for not recognizing the existence of oppression of women, and distancing itself from the view of essentialism also in relation to the Indian population. "The people are liberating us. They are historical political processes. I come from a people," she said in one of her interventions in Mexico in 2016. "It is not a wonder what Brother

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is doing, but it is the best thing we have right now in history, of our town and we are building." From no government are revolutions made, says Paredes; that is why we are in the process of change with social movements. "''Blanquitas'', ''blancos'', for us, are not the people who have fair skin, but those who accept the privileges of a patriarchal, colonial, and racist system because of the clarity of skin, in the same way with our male brothers, it is not for being men but for accepting the privileges that a patriarchal, colonial, racist system gives them; they use it and do not fight it." Therefore, the structure that arises is "from the long memory of the people." However, her struggle is not focused solely on the emancipation of indigenous women or belonging to certain social classes, but on the equality of all women. This process would go through the political awareness of women and society in general.

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Career

Community feminism

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