WOMEN IN THE SHOW

Wings of the Butterfly is based on the book, Women: Metamorphosis of the Butterfly Effect , by María Suárez Toro, which documents through the stories of women, how in the last 5,000 years of the patriarchal paradigm, women have been:

•  Dispossessed of their history (Chapter: Imaginary letter by Lucy:
A lost paradigm in the origins of patriarchy 5,000 years ago).

•  Dissociated from their female powers (Chapters: Imaginary letter by Gwendolyn, the witch of Escazú: Collective archetypes, a historical resistance to the control of our bodies and daily lives)

•  Displaced of the potential of shared power in the construction of human civilization (Chapter: Kailyn Sullivan's African drums: We are vibration. with the planet and with our individual and collective strength.

•  Invisibilized in their contributions to science (Chapters:  Mileva Maric: If women counted. And also Periferical Visionaries in the "hard" sciences,  "softened" by the connections they make between life and knowledge.)

•  Silenced and abused (Chapters: Marge Tanawaki and Kim Boc Dong, Asian women placed in captivity by the U.S. and Japanese armies during World War II:  Resonance in the airwaves.)

•  Forced to abandon their places of origin with their families and communities       (Chapter: Women of the islands of Vieques and Diego García: Globalization of hope.)

•  Undervalued and objectified in the development of technologies (Chapter: Molly, the bionic woman:  Technologies are not neutral.)

•  Undervalued and rendered "transparent" in humanity's scientific and cultural development (Chapter: Goree, a soaring soul: An interpretation of morphic resonance in the path through and out of slavery.)

•  Doubly exploited in the work place (Chapter: Clementina Black: The hidden sex discrimination in labor during the Industrial Revolution)

But with the emergence and development of feminism, women begin to:

.   NAME their dissatisfaction with the status quo (Chapters: Guadalupe Urbina:
Women, a contact "life-point" in the universe;  Celeste Strong and Brave: A very scientific subjectivity and vice versa; Olympe de Gouges: Women's struggles in Patriarchy are paradigmatic.they challenge exclusionary knowledge frameworks.)

.    RESIST against leaving the past behind so that it does not repeat itself in the same way (Chapter:  Tatiana Trechenko, survivor of Chernobyl : The past is contained in the present.)

.    MAKE their own feminist analyses that take gender into account (Chapter: Lohana Berkins:  Forced gender roles and heterosexuality.)

.     STRENGTHEN themselves through self-help women collectives and spaces
(Sister Belinda:  A quantum leap between two worlds.)

.    CONSTRUCT their own inclusive epistemological framework (Chapters: Periferical Visionaries and Libia Herrero Uribe: Will science define life?)

.    RECOVER their ancestral capacity to feel part of the forces of the universe (Chapter: Eve Ensler: Vagina Monologues.)

.    RECONCEPTUALIZE their own spirituality (Chapters: Francisca Alvarez: science/spirituality, a feminist Mayan cosmovision;  Dialogue between Paca Cruz y Alda Facio:  The spiritual is political.)

.    RENAME their own history (all chapters)

  All of the above has been possible for women to undertake based on the only thing left for them in Patriarchy:

•  The powers that stem from women's own life experiences (vitality) , which include not only "experience" as such, but their dreams, visions, desires and ideals (subjectivity) and their contributions to the reconceptualization of the relationship between social and ecological interactions (Chapter: Three  "Foresteers" against biopiracy: Wangari Mathaai: "Planting a tree is planting a seed for peace"; Manar  Faraj: Palestinian women in search of a sustainable livelihood; and Ana Velades Ortega, Midwife  of Chiapas:  Protecting indigenous knowledge and biodiversity.)

•  The genius and main contribution of feminism has been its capacity to turn the knowledge that emerges from women's NAMING of their common subordinate roles into its epistemological foundation, an epistemology that reveals the nature of domination as an ontological and political issue in all relationships.

Challenging the paradigm of domination is challenging patriarchy.