Recognizing how systemic oppression, discrimination, and power imbalances inscribe themselves into physical self-concept and bodily awareness.
Sor Juana's body was marked by multiple forms of exclusion: she was a woman in a male-dominated intellectual sphere, mestiza in a hierarchical colonial society, and cloistered within convent walls. These constraints did not exist separate from her flesh—they shaped her posture, her movements, her freedom to occupy space. Her writings reveal awareness that injustice is not merely psychological but embodied and structural. This concept invites practitioners to examine how historical and present systems of power have written themselves into their own physical self-concept: internalized beliefs about worth, beauty, capability, and belonging that live in the body. Understanding the body as an archive means recognizing these inscriptions and beginning the work of rewriting your physical identity through conscious reclamation.
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