Archive for 'La Paz'
Operation Screw the Prostitutes in Bolivia
Having spent several weeks in Bolivia this summer, and visited El Alto (lit. the heights), the neighborhood on the lip of the canyon where the capital of Bolvia, La Paz, this news is especially disturbing. (Curtsy to $3.60 for the update.) Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports that “Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Aymara, Bolivia, La Paz, Lily Cortez, Media, Quechua, Ramiro Orellana, abortion, activism, activists, bar, birth control, brothel, catholic, che, chola, culture, danger, dangerous, discrimination, el alto, endangered, fasting, feminism, feminist, human rights, hunger strike, indigenous, karaoke, latin america, legal, mayor, media attention, murder, mutilation, neighborhood, nighttime workers, pimping, prostitute, prostitution, protest, red light district, restaurant, sewing lips together, sewing mouth closed, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexism, sexual capital, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, standard of beauty, technology, violation, women's rights.
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Witches and a Disappearing Act
Today I went to the Mercado de Hecheria in La Paz and admired all of the components of local witchcraft – live lizards, jaguar skin, statues of the earth goddess Pachamama, llama fetuses, etc. This reminded me that playing at witchcraft is one of the ways that little girls gain certain kinds of agency that [...]
Posted: July 12th, 2007 under Bolivia, La Paz, agency, chola, earth goddess, fetus, gender roles, goddess, hecheria, llama, mercado, pachamama, religion, spirituality, witch, witchcraft.
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La Paz, El Soroche; Buenas desde Adventure Brew Hostel
Buenas from on high. I just *finally* got to La Paz after more than thirty hours of travel, and immediately got dizzy til I had some coca tea, which is both legal and typical here, because it’s a common cure for soroche, or altitude sickness. La Paz is the highest capital city in the world, [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 under Adventure Brew Hostel, Bolivia, La Paz, Soroche, altitude, altitude sickness, cholita, coca tea, cocaine, hostel, travel.
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Red Eye, and !Ojo para viajeros: la red del disastre!
I was on the red eye to La Paz, Bolivia last night. Perhaps everything was going too well: the previous flight had had free refills and personal tv sets for each passenger and offered me both Before Sunset and I Heart Huckabees in addition to an episode of the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa switch [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Bart Simpson, Before Sunset, Bolivia, Canadian, Cuzco, I Heart Huckabees, La Paz, Lima, Lisa Simpson, Peru, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, TV, Viru Viru, airlines, catholic, economics, free, gender, goody two shoes, horror movie, latino, law, peruvian, professional, punishable offense, race, red eye, refills, risk analyst, sexual harassment, television, the Simpsons, troublemaker, turbulence.
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Bolivia and Women as Vessels of Cultural Authenticity
Tonight, my flight leaves for Bolivia at 8:30. I´m excited for the visit because my money will go farther there, and because it will be the first country that I´ve ever been to which has a thriving indigenous culture. It´s a culture that I don´t know much about, so I´ve been trying to do some [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under 18th century, Aramayá, Barbie, Bolivia, Bolivian, Female Sexuality, La Paz, Miss Bolivia, Quillacollo, Robert Albro, Western, anthropology, bourgeoisie, chola, cholita, colonialism, culture, designer jeans, dress, empire, empowerment, fashion, femininity, gender, globalization, historical actor, identity, image, indigenous culture, market seller, objectification, oppression, politics, pop culture, popular woman, resistance, root metaphor, spanish king, standard of beauty, traditional dress, viceroy toledo, woman.
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Don’t Be Scared, It’s Only Street Art: Mujeres Creando
Interview with Mujeres Creando, by Katharine Ainger, from the New Internationalist, mixed with some feminist graffiti I found on the marvelous interweb. Overnight, in beautiful handwriting, words appear on the walls of La Paz, the high-altitude capital of Bolivia. They speak truths Bolivian women won’t say out loud. Deconstructing machismo, anti-gay prejudice and neoliberalism, Bolivian [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under Billboard vandalism, Bolivia, Deudora, La Paz, Mujeres Creando, New Internationalist, abortion, anarcho-feminists, barrios, birth control, debt, feminism, graffiti, hispanic women, homophobia, las pintadas, little red ridinghood, machismo, microcredit, motherhood, reproductive rights, street art, violence against women, women's rights.
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