Sor Juana created a space of agency within her convent, one of learning, full of books, art, musical instruments and a constant stream of people coming to discuss and argue with Sor Juana. She wrote passionately in her poetry, plays and her famous La Respuesta (The Answer) against the systematic exclusion women encountered from education. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was an early modern, seventeenth-century philosopher, poet, thinker and nun who challenged the exclusivity of education and lack of agency that women experienced. Specifically in the writings of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, through her struggle for women to be educated and allowed to write and think, illustrating a portrait of a woman’s lived experience through the art of words. Her research looks at how women use self-portraiture to tell stories of their lived experiences to create space for themselves within the world. Kyrie Adele Robinson is a Master’s Student at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, Ontario.
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