Dolores Cacuango, also known as Mamá Doloreyuk, was a leader in the fight for indigenous rights in Ecuador born on this day in 1881. She was active in the Glorious May Revolution of 1944 and co-founded the Indigenous Federation of Ecuador (FEI).
Cacuango was born to enslaved people in San Pablourco who worked the Pesillo Hacienda near Cayambe without being paid. She had no access to education due to her lack of resources, and learned Spanish while working as a housemaid.
In 1930, Cacuango was among the leaders of the historic workers' strike at the Pesillo hacienda in Cayambe, which was a milestone for indigenous and peasant rights. During the Glorious May Revolution in Ecuador, Cacuango personally led an assault on a government military base.
The same year, with the help of Ecuador's Communist Party, Cacuango co-founded the Indigenous Federation of Ecuador (FEI), an early group in the fight for indigenous rights. She also helped establish some of the first bilingual indigenous schools.
Dolores Cacuango, la rebelde líder indígena ecuatoriana que luchó por la educación y la tierra
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Is there a word for attraction based on mutually held specific interests? Like at this point my imagined partners in my dreams are just chatting about invertebrates with me.
I've internally used the term "intellectual intimacy" to describe a similar quality of being able to share honestly how I think, what I think is cool, not being ashamed about sharing what little tidbits about the functioning of the universe are actually very important to me, and similar. I think the term leaves a little to be desired though.
Not a bad term for it tbh, when you spend enough time in that mental realm it seeps into your personhood. Sharing it becomes a form of love after a certain point, though I can't say I blame people who think I'm doing it to show off (though I should be allowed to indulge now and then)
Friend?
Maybe but my friends don't want to get into any deep talk about placozoans with me either
you can do
pentestingask organizers nicely to go to conference and drop some knowledge on foolsTruly the ultimate in nerd fantasy
Just trawling around at a biology conference and making the ladyfolk swoon with cicada trivia. But honestly if it is gonna work anywhere that's the place.
I would have been happy
Well it gives me hope to know there are people out there waiting to hear someone like me spill their accumulated trivia
Intellectual attraction. Other forms of attraction are sexual, romantic, aesthetic, sensual, emotional, platonic, familial.