Intersectional Knowledge Production

Sor Juana's unique position as a woman of mixed heritage engaging with theology, science, and philosophy models intersectional knowledge production essential to climate justice. She understood that identity, power, and access to learning are inseparable from intellectual inquiry. Climate science that ignores how women bear disproportionate burdens of environmental degradation, or that erases how colonialism created extractive economies, produces incomplete and unjust analysis. Sor Juana's integration of multiple domains of knowledge—spiritual, empirical, poetic—suggests climate solutions require weaving together scientific data with social science, Indigenous wisdom, and feminist analysis. Climate justice demands recognizing that environmental crises are simultaneously crises of gender inequality, racial capitalism, and colonial legacies. Knowledge that fails to examine these intersections perpetuates the very power structures driving ecological destruction. Sor Juana's intellectual method invites holistic, integrated approaches to climate understanding.