Ep. 58 – Mariana Ortega on Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self

Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast

After a year of dissertating, graduating, and professor-ating, B reunites with Emily and John as they all discuss Mariana Ortega’s book In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self. Why did B suggest this book for the group? Was it because of their rekindled affinity for Heideggerian phenomenology? Maybe. Is Latinx Feminism and narrative space for marginalized lived experiences more important than ever? Definitely. So join the Always Already team as they examine a number of Ortega’s claims to the multiplicitousness of the self. What is being-in-worlds compared to being-between-worlds? How does the the everyday praxis of “hometactics” provide a basis for being-at-ease? Emily, John, and B provide a few ways of situating the answers to these questions within everyday life through a close reading of Ortega’s brilliant and at times visceral text.

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Links:

• In-Between, SUNY Press
• philoSOPHIA review
• Mariana Ortega @Penn State
• Gloria Anzaldua @ Poetry Foundation
• Maria Lugones on Decolonial Feminism