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Yan María Yaoyólotl Castro
Yan María Yaoyólotl (born 1952) is a lesbian feminist activist and a Mexican feminist artist, painter, curator and cultural promoter. She was co-founder of the groups Lesbos (1977) and Oikabeth (1978) which have their origins in the lesbian-feminist movement in Mexico. Biography Named María de Lourdes at birth, she later took the Indigenous Maya name Yan and the Nahuatl Yaoyólotl as her last name. She studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with a specialization in aesthetics and politics (1973–1980). Activist in the Lesbofeminist Movimiento In 1977, she co-founded the group responsible for initiating the lesbian-feminist movement in Mexico: ''Lesbos'', which had its precedent in Ácratas (1976), a group created a year before and which Yaoyólotl defines as "radical feminist, anarchist and separatist that proposed lesbian feminism." It was founded by Marcela Olavarrieta along with several other foreign feminists who did not want to en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facultad De Filosofía Y Letras
The Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (''School of Philosophy and Literature'') or FFyL of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) administers eleven divisions of the humanities offering undergraduate and graduate degrees. The Department is one of the largest, and most renowned, literature faculties in the Spanish-speaking world; the Alma Mater of Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz and a number of other important figures in Latin American literature. History The direct ancestor of Department was the High Studies National School, founded in 1910 by Justo Sierra as an attempt to establish graduate level degrees and research. The School itself was created fourteen year later hosting four majors: Sciences, Philosophy, Literature, and Historic Sciences. The Department has always been one of the most dynamic schools at the university, adding additional majors along with separating Sciences programs into a new department. Organization The School is run by the Dean, currently Jor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |