The recognition that excluded groups—women, colonized peoples, the poor—have been systematically denied credibility and ownership of their own knowledge and experience.
Sor Juana lived under multiple systems of epistemic injustice: as a woman, her intellectual claims were dismissed; as a colonial subject, her indigenous context was devalued; as a nun, her thought was subordinate to male clergy. She fought back by documenting her learning, citing her sources, and asserting the authority of her own experience and reasoning. Libertarian justice demands epistemic repair: restoring to people the ownership of their own knowledge, validating lived experience, and rejecting hierarchies that grant some voices credibility while silencing others. When we honor Sor Juana's insistence that her mind, her education, and her interpretations belong to her—not to those who would dismiss her—we build a framework where knowledge is distributed property, not concentrated privilege.
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