The fundamental right of disabled people to pursue knowledge, develop ideas, and claim authority over their own intellectual work and identity.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz fought fiercely for her right to study, write, and think freely despite institutional and social barriers. For disabled people, intellectual autonomy means the right to education, creative expression, and cognitive self-determination—resisting paternalistic assumptions that disability diminishes intellectual capacity. This concept challenges systems that infantilize or silence disabled voices, asserting that disabled people deserve access to learning, to be heard as experts on their own experience, and to contribute knowledge to society. Sor Juana's legacy teaches us that intellectual freedom is inseparable from human dignity and justice.
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