S 04 Ep 03 Maria
Update: 2025-12-18
Description
En este episodio conversamos con María Arteaga Villamil, antropóloga mexicana y activista feminista radicada en Estados Unidos, sobre las mujeres, las migraciones y el poder de la organización colectiva. Desde su trabajo en The Women’s Building en San Francisco, María explora cómo las perspectivas feministas y decoloniales pueden transformar nuestra comprensión sobre la migración, el cuidado y la solidaridad.María es doctora en Antropología y cuenta con una amplia experiencia en metodologías cualitativas basadas en marcos teóricos feministas. Inspirada en la ética del cuidado feminista, su trabajo promueve prácticas de comunicación generativas que fomentan el impacto, la colaboración y la expansión de redes de solidaridad.Su investigación académica se centra en cómo las mujeres navegan la autoridad y la identidad en entornos laborales altamente masculinizados, utilizando la investigación narrativa feminista para visibilizar las barreras estructurales que limitan el acceso de las mujeres a la justicia y la igualdad.Conéctate a este episodio para descubrir cómo las mujeres migrantes están transformando las narrativas de resistencia y pertenencia, y cómo la solidaridad feminista puede abrir nuevos caminos hacia el empoderamiento y la transformación colectiva.
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In this episode, we talk with María Arteaga Villamil, a Mexican anthropologist and feminist activist based in the United States, about women, migration, and the power of collective organization. From her work at The Women’s Building in San Francisco, María explores how feminist and decolonial perspectives can transform our understanding of migration, care, and solidarity.María holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and has extensive experience in qualitative methodologies grounded in feminist theoretical frameworks. Inspired by the feminist ethics of care, her work promotes generative communication practices that build impact, collaboration, and solidarity networks.Her academic research focuses on how women navigate authority and identity in highly masculine work environments, using feminist narrative research to expose the structural barriers that limit women’s access to justice and equality. Tune in to this episode to discover how migrant women are reshaping narratives of resistance and belonging, and how feminist solidarity can create new paths for collective empowerment and transformation.
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Recursos/Resources
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In this episode, we talk with María Arteaga Villamil, a Mexican anthropologist and feminist activist based in the United States, about women, migration, and the power of collective organization. From her work at The Women’s Building in San Francisco, María explores how feminist and decolonial perspectives can transform our understanding of migration, care, and solidarity.María holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and has extensive experience in qualitative methodologies grounded in feminist theoretical frameworks. Inspired by the feminist ethics of care, her work promotes generative communication practices that build impact, collaboration, and solidarity networks.Her academic research focuses on how women navigate authority and identity in highly masculine work environments, using feminist narrative research to expose the structural barriers that limit women’s access to justice and equality. Tune in to this episode to discover how migrant women are reshaping narratives of resistance and belonging, and how feminist solidarity can create new paths for collective empowerment and transformation.
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Recursos/Resources
- Decolonial and intersectional feminist psychology for the future of (forced) migration and refugee resettlement, Özge Savaş and Anjali Dutt
- Women's building story
- "Women are Everywhere": Celebrating The Women's Building, Donna Graves
- Storied San Francisco “Women’s Building” Episode
- From ‘unbelonging’ to ‘radical connection’ among migrant women, Cathy McIlwaine and Renata Peppl and Carolina Cal
- Instagram de la Organización: https://www.instagram.com/thewomensbuilding/
- Página de Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Building_(San_Francisco)
- Historia de la Organización: https://www.womensbuilding.org/who-we-are/our-history
- Historia de la Organización en SF Digitial Archives: https://www.foundsf.org/THE_WOMEN%27S_BUILDING & https://www.foundsf.org/How_the_Women%27s_Building_Came_To_Be
- Another podcast that covers our history and the current programs we have: https://www.storiedsf.com/episodes/the-womens-building-s5e16
- Women are Everywhere’: Celebrating The Women’s Building.” Forum Journal 2019. https://www.academia.edu/38170197/_Women_are_Everywhere_Celebrating_The_Womens_Building
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