My favorite subject of this semester.

The subject that I liked the most this semester was the elective "Geography and gender: a view from feminism". I have many reasons to choose this subject as my favorite. First of all, it is the first time in the history of geography at the University of Chile that a course on gender and feminism has been taught, which has been a winner of the last mobilizations. Secondly, the professor who teaches this subject is a geographer from the same university who specializes in gender issues. He is transgender and has done a lot of interesting research and studies. Besides, as a teacher he is excellent and his classes are not like the ordinary classes. Now I will explain why:

From the beginning, the teacher organizes us in a different way, creates a circle with the tables and we all see each other with everyone. This brings us closer to each other and to him, leaving hierarchical organizations behind. He explains the content of that class as we all intervene and in the end there is always a debate about it. For all the classes he leaves us a reading so that we can comment on it and debate it, which is why super interesting and knowledge-rich discussions have been formed. 

The topics we have seen in classes include an anti-colonial perspective of feminism, and we have studied the different waves of feminism, the organization before feminism existed, the emergence of feminism, history, masculinities and different authors that we have read in the course, analyzed and made their corresponding criticisms.

Recognizing birds

http://www.buscaves.cl/

This is a website dedicated to the recognition or discovery of native or endemic birds of Chile. When you walk around and see a bird and want to know its name and characteristics, you can describe it on this website in the "identify your bird" section and find out what type of bird it belongs to. You can describe it through the shape, the colors of its fur, the legs, the shape of the beak, the size of the bird, the place where it was seen and its habitat. Also, in the "search" section you can know the complete characteristics of the bird you want. And not only that, this website is so great that it also has a section of games like the "memorize", the "puzzle" or the "hanging" that allow you to learn about birds in a fun way.

I access this website whenever I want to know information about a specific bird or when I see a bird anywhere I can't recognize it.

I like the web site because it is useful for this specific area of my career that is biogeography, since it is difficult to know the characteristics of all the endemic and native birds of Chile or to be able to recognize them all when we walk in terrains; therefore, with this web site I can have that information at any time. I also like it because it's not only an academic site but also helps you learn while having fun and getting distracted.

The personal is also political

I think I'm a too passionate person to choose just one thing I'm most passionate about, but I'm going to embed all my passions in one thing: politics.

First of all I want to clarify that when I speak of "politics" I don't mean political parties, but for me everything you do in life is political, all the decisions you make are political decisions (good and bad). So, I can say that politics is my greatest passion, because I grew up with it, I grew up with it and it has made me the person I am. 

I started working in politics when I was 16 years old, for the mobilizations of 2011. I was studying in a private subsidized school with a rather precarious education. In that year we occupied the school and began a long period of mobilizations. After a short time I became the spokeswoman for this occupation and then we formed a communal cordon with the other schools mobilized in the commune. I went through many things and from there I didn't stop anymore. 

When I entered the USACH, I began get involved in a political organization in which I spent four years. In addition, I spent two years at the student center of my ex-career, first as a secretary and then as president. In the last year I was also elected as a faculty advisor; but beyond the public offices I have held, I have worked on a lot of things that have made me a political person.

Through volunteer work in a community in Tirúa, I established permanent links with communities in resistance and have worked with them to this day. I also worked on human rights issues, giving talks in high schools and helping fellow prisoners. 

Finally, politics is all I do, from when I get up to when I fall asleep. Every decision I make is political, because I'm always thinking about how that decision is going to contribute and not harm my people.

My favorite picture

Hi

I chose this as my favorite photograph for one simple reason: it represents what I most enjoy doing in the life, photographing and traveling.

Ever since I was a little girl, I've always liked artistic things. Between the ages of 14 and 16 I drew portraits in black and white. By my age, I think they were good portraits and people would ask me to make one for them when they saw them. At 16 I also bought myself a harmonica because I also really liked the music and the sound of the harmonica (especially in the blues) caused me something unspeakable. Before that I had a guitar and I went to guitar lessons. I also took different dance courses, from salsa to dancehall.

I always wanted to be a photographer, and I know that because I recently found old photos from 2012 that I took and I was impressed by how good those photos were. After finding them I started to publish them together with some of the photos I've taken now.

This is my favorite photograph because it has everything: a wonderful landscape, I'm photographing, mountains, altitude, a great friend who took that photograph, and the memory of a fabulous trip with great people. Finally, I like the trips because they represent a journey through your life, through your dreams.

I watch when i hate

When i walk on the street, use to call me my attention the social differences along the way. I'm always looking at the fight on the bus that it travles since 'La Alameda" to my house, not just physical fights, but also verbal and long fights on the cellphone. It's very common to hear women fight with their boyfriend on the cellphone, screaming very strong a lot of insults and bad words that everybody listens to. Also is common to see and hear men talking very strong (for all of us to know) about his personal relations and his PERSONAL sexual experiences. They talk about "how conquer to a woman and how to be good in the bed", so sorry but when i look them in the face, i just can laugh for the pathetic that they look and the moovie that they invent in their heads.

Other thing that catch my attention is when people still in the 21th century keeps turning to look when they see a homosexual couple walking hand in hand. I usually keep my eyes fixed on those people to make them uncomfortable (to people who look homophobic in the face).I really like to look badly at people, especially to men, to "cuicos" (people with lots of money, luxury and power), or in short words: white men heterocis and "cuicos". The more of these characteristics they gather, the uglier my gaze will be. I mean, people i hate get my attention on the street.

My favorite gadget

I don't know if i have a favorite gadget, because it isn't some that i see and say "¡wow! i love it". In fact, I enjoy other things, like the nature and manual things. For example, i love write, and actually i write in computers, but i'd love to have a typing machine and write there or also i like photography but i prefer the classic cameras.

So, if i have to choice one gadget, I could say that my favorite is my cell phone. Despite the fact that sometimes i hate it because doesn't work well and it's so slowly, i use it all day and many times i need it.

My actually cell phone is a Huawei Y6, and i  got it two years ago. Is special because is the cell phone that's lasted the longest. I use it for see social networking, for to be able to locate me trhough the map (this is very important for me), for listen to music on the travels, for see memes, talk with my friends and my family,  pay bills, take pictures, etc. So i like it because is necessary and help me in different ocations, however sometimes i need being disconnected and i try don't use it for many days.

A program for travel

When i was  a child, the first thing i wanted to be was DJ. I really didn't know nothing about this job, but i was liked stay on partys and use headphones and rotate a CD every time 💿. Then, i dreamed of being singer, boxer, artist, and finally photographer 📸 and writer 📃. This last one's what i liked the most for the longest.

When i was in the high school, i was liked english so much, and i was wanted to study something realted, so my firts program was "Degree in linguistics applied to translation", but wasn't what i expected and i finished learn to speak portuguese but english never. When i left my first program, i didn't know what to study because i felt like i didn't like anything, and only wanted write, dance and take photograpys. Someday i was at USACH with my friends who studied pedagogy in history and they showed me the geography and told me everything about it. I really loved it and felt it was more like what i wanted, because geography is critical, political and can see important things about great events and social processes. 🌎 Also, we have field trips all the year and that's the best because i really love travel. ✈

Actually, i feel good in this program, and i like the physical and humanist geography. When i finish, i would like work on projects destined to the care of the planet and mainly destined to serve the proletarian class.

In this picture i stay with my Quaternary geomorphology's teacher in a field trip to Tongoy on my birthday.

Me

I was born away from my home, in Independencia, but i'm live in La Granja, in a settlement to south of Santiago. I studied all my school time in the same school, near of my house, where I lived the best moments of my life and where I started to work and train in politics. My parents have worked all their lives selling vegetables in the open market, and I work with their five years ago. They don't have university studies, and were from poor families and lives very hard, but have worked so much and my sister could have studied at university. I studied translate in English-Portuguese at USACH for four years (but I only learned to talk in Portuguese), and now, I’m studying geography at Universidad de Chile. About me, I like write (it’s what I enjoy most), in fact, I started to write since I was 12 years old. I write in personal notebooks, and blogs. Also I like dancing, I love go to dance to partys and I have my moments where only want read a book and stay at home.