Subcomandante Marcos

Like Wilderson, we must attempt to chart the genocided Savage’s demand. Wilderson writes that “Red flesh can only be restored, ethically, through the destruction of White bodies, because the corporeality of the indigenous has been consumed by and gone into the making of the Settler’s corporeality.” This demand for flesh reparations is repossessed not just through lost labor power, language, or land, but rather the raw materiality of Savage flesh which has gone into the formation of the White…

In 1999 Dr. Navarro organized a delegation in Chiapas, Mexico with leaders of the Zapatistas movement and later partook in the organization of another delegation to march into Mexico City with the Zapatistas and along side head vehicles of Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista movement. In 2000 Dr. Navarro organized protests in Arizona and brought in Mexican elected officials to rally against the Rancho Vigilantes who were apprehending immigrants at gunpoint. During 2005- 2006 Dr.…

It has become increasingly unpopular within the academy to think of things through a poststructuralist, multicultural frame in which the myriad of overlapping identities situate a given Being within a particular time and space. Yet, such a structural attempt to think through the problem of Indigeneity and the West might enhance the explanatory power of postcolonial and settler colonial studies of the problem at hand. In light of this, I attempt to explain the way that the Settler and their…

2 Another problem that lead to the demise is that the movement itself does not encourage attention. After periods of protests, conventions, and communiqués, the Zapatista will withdraw into its communities for long stages of silence.1 With Subcomandante Marcos, the charismatic leader and champion of the movement, declaring his figurative death from the leadership role, many journalists have declared this movement that once rocked the world “dead or dying for…