Intersectional Justice Analysis

Sor Juana lived at the intersection of gender, class, and colonial oppression in 17th-century Mexico; her writings reveal how systems of domination interconnect. Contemporary climate justice must apply this intersectional lens, recognizing that climate breakdown disproportionately harms women, Indigenous peoples, poor communities, and colonized nations—not coincidentally, but structurally. A woman farmer in sub-Saharan Africa faces drought, land dispossession, and gendered violence simultaneously; these aren't separate crises but facets of the same extractive system. Sor Juana's intellectual framework teaches that justice work requires naming these entanglements explicitly. Climate solutions that ignore gender inequality, that displace Indigenous communities, or that reproduce colonial extraction patterns aren't actually climate solutions—they're green colonialism. Global responsibility demands analyzing and dismantling the interlocking systems that produce both climate chaos and social oppression.