Ximena Bedregal

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Ximena Sáez

Ximena Bedregal Sáez (born 1951) is a Chilean-Bolivian architect, writer, theoretician, professor, editor, photographer, and feminist lesbian.[1] In Mexico, she founded Centro de Investigación, Capacitación y Apoyo a la Mujer (CICAM; Centre for Research, Training and Support of Women), and edited its magazine, La Correa Feminista.

Early years and education

Bedregal was born in 1951,[2] in the Bolivian Andes. She spent her childhood traveling between Chile and Bolivia as her mother was Chilean and her father was Bolivian. When she was in Bolivia she was considered "Chilean", and when she was in Chile, she was nicknamed "bolivianita, cholita", or "lauquita" for having lived near the Lauca River. From this background, she became critical of the concepts of patriotism and nationalism, developing feminist ideas. At age of eight, Bedregal and her mother moved to Chile. There, she participated in social justice causes, becoming an exile in Mexico at the age of 27.[3]

Bedregal studied architecture and the arts at the

Ana Casas, Joan Foncuberta, Graciela Iturbide, Hanna Iverson, and Pedro Meyer.[3]

Career

From 1983 through 1985, Bedregal served as Professor of Art History and Architecture at the

University of Puebla, Mexico. She formed a feminist center in Mexico, and from 1995 to 2000 was the director and publisher of its magazine, La Correa feminista, which articulated feminist criticism and reflection in 20 quarterly issues. From 1989 to 2001, she served as Director of CICAM in Mexico City. From 1997 to 2008, she was the editor and director of the Internet website, "Creatividad Feminista", described as a multimedia feminist reflection space. The site had 60,000 visitors per month, serving as the face of radical and critical cyber feminism in Latin America. With this feminist website journal, she "dedicated herself to expanding the perspectives available in cyberspace".[4] When she forgot to renew the domain name, it was bought by someone else, and Bedregal moved on, From 1998-2006, she served as the editor of "Triple Jornada",[3] the women's supplement to La Jornada (Mexico City); she also was in charge of its online version.[5] In 2006, Bedregal returned to Bolivia as a freelance correspondent for La Jornada of Mexico and other international publications.[3]

In her work as a theoretician and writer, Bedregal has does research in the field of gender studies from a feminist activist perspective, criticising the moderate political discourse on feminism, including lesbophobia.[6][7] Her publications have addressed the role of women within indigenous movements, as in the case of the Zapatista. She has questioned the weakness of Mexican legislation for women's rights and the efficiency of some international programs such as microcredit through the International Monetary Fund.[8][9][10] [11][12][13] She has written for several other journals, including Debate feminista.

As a visual artist and photographer, Bedregal has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, among which are Como mujer no tengo Patria, el mundo entero es mi tierra – La tira de la Peregrinació at the National Art Museum in La Paz, Bolivia (2009),[14] Bolivia, luces y sombras de un proceso at the Centro Cultural de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos de Morelos (2009) and Bolivia Resistencia y Esperanza: una muestra documental del proceso boliviano at the Casa de la Cultura de Tlayacapan (2009).[15]

Selected works

Editor

Collaboration

  • Chiapas, y las mujeres qué? (La Correa Feminista, 1994) (in Spanish)

References

  1. ^ Corrales & Pecheny 2010, p. 403.
  2. ^ "Biografia Ximena Bedregal". Debate Feminista. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d Bedregal Saez, Ximena. "Breve Biografia". Mamametal.
  4. S2CID 144387644. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  5. ^ "BUSQUELA EL PRIMER LUNES DE CADA MES EN LA JORNADA". La Jornada. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  6. ^ León, Irene (March 1997). "VII Encuentro Feminista de América Latina y el Caribe". FEM (in Spanish) (21): 20–25.
  7. ISBN 978-607-913-001-5
    . (in Spanish)
  8. ISBN 978-997-261-006-6
    . (in Spanish)
  9. JSTOR 40619666
    .
  10. hdl:2268/33655
    . Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  11. ^ Fischer, Amalia E. (2005). "Los complejos caminos de la autonomía" (PDF). Nouvelles Questions Féministes. Feminismos Disidentes en América Latina y el Caribe (in Spanish). 24 (2): 54–78. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  12. JSTOR 24328227
    . Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  13. ^ Rojas, Rosa (20 September 2009). "Bedregal traspasa el miedo a lo diferente y al misterio de lo que da vida: la mujer". In La Jornada. Cultura. Accessdate 19 July 2013. (in Spanish)
  14. ^ El Diario, ed. (27 September 2009). Ximena Bedregal expone "Tira de la Peregrinación". Accessdate 19 July 2013. (in Spanish)
  15. ^ La Jornada, ed. (23 October 2009). "Bolivia, resistencia y esperanza". La Jornada: El Correo Ilustrado. Accessdate 19 July 2013. (in Spanish)

Bibliography

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