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These insurgent, underground groups, the mara wars, the mafias, the wars police wage against the poor and non-whites, are the new forms of state authoritarianism. These situations depend on the control of bodies, above all women’s bodies, which have always been largely identified with territory. And when territory is appropriated, it is marked. The marks of the new domination are placed on it. I always say that the first colony was a woman’s body.

RITA SEGATO,

INTERVIEW BY ROXANA SANDÁ

IN PÁGINA/12, 17 JULY 2009

One goes in straightforward ways,

One in a circle roams:

Waits for a girl of his gone days,

Or for returning home.

But I do go – and woe is there –

By a way nor straight, nor broad,

But into never and nowhere,

Like trains – off the railroad.

ANNA AKHMATOVA,

“ONE GOES IN STRAIGHTFORWARD WAYS”

(TRANSLATED BY YEVGENY BONVER;

FIRST PUBLISHED IN POETRY LOVERS’ PAGE, 2008)

We are all hiding something sinister. Even the most normal among us.

GUSTAVO ESCANLAR, LA ALEMANA