Editorial

Abstract

Another year closes and finds us in a state of uncertainty and perplexity. A noisy and violent return to narratives we thought were of the past. Our country has democratically elected a neo-conservative and neoliberal, misogynist and homophobic far-right political force, which has publicly affirmed that gender inequalities and all forms of gender-based violence are a fiction, pure ideology, a private matter. A political force that has installed, as part of global trends, the premise of freedom as equivalent to free markets and property. A freedom that, taken to extreme limits, enables the buying and selling of organs or the justification of the privatisation of common goods such as water, air, land, mountains, lakes, seas and forests as the only way to enjoy and care for them. A political force that considers public education - in particular, university education - as an unnecessary expense of a state considered disproportionate to the very limited functions that, from their perspective, it is responsible for. They argue that university education and scientific research should be in the hands of private capital, organised on the basis of supply and demand, without taking into account the enormous economic and population inequalities that affect the twenty-three provinces of our country. In this context, our editorial work as a feminist journal of a public university in Cordoba becomes essential. It is no longer just a matter of disseminating and publicising the research, debates and priorities of a specific social and political sector, but of sustaining them as basic and essential pillars of a constitutional democracy committed in every daily act to the defence of the public, of human rights and of Abya Yala. "Equality is the soul of freedom; in fact, it does not exist without it", Frances Wright told us more than a hundred years ago, in the context of the suffragette struggles and for the abolition of slavery. With this issue, and with every task that falls to us as an Editorial Team, we recover her words and we extend them as a banner, defending an increasingly broad, creative and inclusive equality of all that exists, as a vital element for the freedom that cannot be bought or sold, the freedom of good living in community. It is a path that involves the personal, but that can only be realised collectively. It is a path that today more than ever we need to care for, sustain and sow again in solidarity and love.