From La Zarzamora
August 29, 2024

This morning, the death of anarcha-feminist comrade María Eva Izquierdo was reported in the town of Rincón del Pinar, Uruguay. María Eva has been active in the last 60 years from anarcha-feminism, with a community anarchist practice that has made her a reference for Rioplatense anarcha-feminism.

Born in 1941 in Melo, Uruguay, in 1969 she joined the “Comunidad del Sur”, an anarchist collective of community life created in 1955 in Uruguay, which was based on cooperative and self-management principles. In this community she met Osvaldo Escribano, who became her life partner.

In 1974, one year after the coup and the establishment of the civil-military dictatorship in Uruguay, they went into exile in Buenos Aires. In 1993, she created the anarcha-feminist collective “Mujeres Libres”, which operated in the “José Ingenieros” Public Library in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 1999, with “Mujeres Libres”, she organized a Meeting of Anarchist Women that took place in Pinar, on the Uruguayan coast, attended by comrades from Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Spain and Sweden. At this meeting, different themes were discussed and the urgent situation of the land was incorporated from an eco-feminist perspective. A march was also organized through Montevideo in support of the women of Afghanistan.

"María Eva Izquierdo produced several articles that focus on gender issues, especially the subordinate role of women and the critique of patriarchy as a historical structure. She and her group published notes on this analysis in the magazine "A Desalambrar" and presented the work «Feminism and Post-Feminism» at the International Anarchist Congress in Barcelona in 1993."¹

Together with her collective, she created the documentary “Las Libertarias,” in which she rescues the memory of different comrades whose stories have been made invisible. Among her work of recording and memory, the interview she conducted with the Italian-Uruguayan anarchist writer and professor, Luce Fabbri, stands out.

During her later years she continued to encourage debate, living in "El Terruño" in Rincon del Pinar, constantly creating initiatives for reflection and discussion among anarchist and feminist comrades from different territories, always concerned with new anarcha-feminist projections, and with nourishing herself with new thoughts, positions and questions.

María Eva also contributed to the rescue of our memory with an archive that was made available in the Brujas Feminist Library in Abayubá and that was organized and inventoried by GETIC.

From the lands of the south, with her memory and voice in our minds, La Zarzamora bids you farewell. Thank you Eva for rescuing and being part of the history of the anarchist women of Abya Yala.

Fire to patriarchy, speciesism, the state and capital!!

Maria Eva Present!!

Maria Eva Izquierdo (1941-2024)

We will soon be recovering part of our archives of conversations with María Eva.

¹ Libertarians in South America. Cristina Guzzo.

Interview with her from 6 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhZOgJtdIRs

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