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reedleycollege: "I’d want to learn and listen to the wisdom of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (11.12.1648- 04.17.1695). She was a Mexican writer, scholar, philosopher, composer, poet, and nun who lived during the colonial period. She learned to read and write Latin and the Aztec language of Nahuatl.

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Coolig5873: The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?,Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,evil, guilt, sin,

juanluisguerr: The poem "Hombres Necios" (fool men) by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is responsible for exposing the injustice and inequality of which women are victims due to machismo and female discrimination. In this poem, Sor Juana makes it clear how she thinks. Worth reading it.

el_raul: Recommended book by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, an erudite nun and mystic from colonial era Mexico. Have a good night. May tomorrow be a good day as well.

MUNSU35: "On International Women's Day, Join us to celebrate the life & work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Latin America's first feminist! Readings by Students of Spanish and Live Music by School of Music Students TODAY, 5-6 p.m. Nexus Center SN4022 Refreshment will be served."

BriyahInstitute: Women’s Day is about remembering those who came before us and paved the way, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “an exceptional woman who used her considerable talents to advocate for women’s rights.” Happy Women’s Day!

munfris: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz The first woman in the New World to fight for woman rights. Philosopher, writer, poet, composer. Bn Nov 12. 1648 Died Apr 17, 1695

realelvenking: — Love opened a mortal wound In agony, I worked the blade To make it deeper. - Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz

IberikL: In Catalan and Spanish, ‘sor’ is a title sometimes used to refer to religious women (e.g. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz). My first thought was that ‘sors’ on the street sign was used in that sense (‘Street of Devout Women’ or similar). However…

ceviche_trash: nobody clocked me! they thought i was sor juana inés de la cruz up in there

FallenOmega: Blow after blow, my heart couldn’t survive this beating. Then ― how can I explain it? I came to my senses. I said, Why do I suffer? What lover ever had so much pleasure? – Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,

PoetNotRockStar: “…with burning, ardent desire.” — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, tr. by Judith Thurman, from “Sonnet 187”

WisebloodBooks: Still in disbelief that Wiseblood will be bringing out Rhina Espaillat's translations of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and San Juan de la Cruz in 2023!

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marihear: I like this one in this Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz Selected Works

ADASpota: American photographer Josephine Sacabo from the collection Óyeme Con Los Ojos: The series was inspired by the life and work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the 17th century Mexican nun who was one of the greatest poets and intellectuals of the American continent.

laniewalkup: “There is no creature, however lowly, in which one cannot recognize that ‘God made me,’ there is none that does not astound reason, if properly meditated on.” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

mttwls: Interesting story. I had never heard of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Her poetry is beguiling.

laniewalkup: “I fear applause more than calumny, because the latter, with but the simple act of patience becomes gain, while the former requires many acts of reflection and humility and proper recognition so that it not become harm.” A wise word from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Plough: The seventeenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was the first great poet of the Americas. By Rhina P. Espaillat

ASPertierra: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz realizing that becoming a nun would allow her to continue to read and write poetry

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BurlHorniachek: Excerpt from “First Dream” by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Edith Grossman. From Selected Works (Norton, 2014). The “she” in this passage is the soul, released from the body during sleep.

robert_stagg: “Her work tells us something, but to understand that something we must realise that it is utterance surrounded by silence: the silence of the things that cannot be said, determined by the invisible presence of her dread readers” — Octavio Paz, writing of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

negraesoterica: hello everyone! i'm making it a point to learn more about history this year. today i learned about sor juana ines de la cruz, an intelligent, dynamic woman from new spain in the mid 17th century who, after being the lady-in-waiting to mexican nobility, became a nun to have-

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POETSorg: Who thankless flees me, I with love pursue, Who loving follows me, I thankless flee; —Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Peter H. Goldsmith

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AAluminium: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a poet of the 17th century. Being a nun, she fell in love with the Countess de Paredes, the Vicereine of Mexico, and wrote her a collection of love poems.

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BurlHorniachek: Another outtake from my upcoming anthology of world Christian poetry. This one is an excerpt from a Nativity villancico by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Alan S. Trueblood. From A Sor Juana Anthology (Harvard UP, 1988).

profstalina: Texas Review, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere. Her published translations of poetry include Enigmas by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Photograms of My Conceptual Heart Absolutely Blind by Minerva Reynosa, Kilimanjaro by Maricela Guerrero, and Postcards in Braille

WisebloodBooks: Some major news: 2 matching Cloth-Bound Books by James Matthew Wilson, & 2 Forthcoming English-language translations by Rhina Espaillat: a volume of poems by St. John of the Cross, as well as a volume of poems by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Read more here:

Daridys: Juana Inés de la Cruz used the cloister as a crucible of creative insurrection, making unexampled art that stood up to the politics of her time and place, filling her convent cell with books, art, and scientific instruments.

benbenghini: "Wealth and power punish those who dare oppose them, but intelligence does not, for, the greater it is, the more modest and long-suffering it is, and it defends itself less." —Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Reply to Sor Philotea

contrer_as: Patent is your arrogance that fights with many weapons since in promise and insistence you join world, flesh and devil. Poem by nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Feminist Poet of New Spain (México) 1680s, yes in the 1600s. Three hundred and fourty years ago.

contrer_as: Nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz poem. You Foolish Men (1680s) You foolish men who lay the guilt on women, not seeing you’re the cause of the very thing you blame; if you invite their disdain with measureless desire why wish they well behave if you incite to ill.

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etechne: For my fellow Adventurers: Janet McKenzie, the Seraph African Choir and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

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schroeder_joy: “The devil can’t stand knowing that a woman is smarter than he is.”– Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) about Catherine of Alexandria (d. 305), martyr, commemorated today. Legends say Catherine, patron of girls & students, bested 50 male philosophers in debate.

poemakontsa: Hilda Hilst previously untranslated poem Something part Nietzsche, part de Sade, part Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. (My translation) Bound by multiple ropes I walk over your dorsal via Wounded palms, outlining Lances of ice, lights made of thorn And find exile, your shoulder blades

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pthemexx: “She studies, and disputes, and teaches, and thus she serves her Faith; for how could God, who gave her reason, want her ignorant?” ~ Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Villancico

NYRB_Imprints: "In its stunning poetic breadth, it reminds me of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s El Sueño, an epistemological quest to unravel, during one night, all the secrets of the universe." —Ilan Stavans on Gloria Gervitz's Migrations (now trans. by Mark Schafer).

d4_DBBYin: Want a religious version? Let's talk about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. She's a Mexican writer and a nun. She was educated, but she is self-taught until the age of 21 since the Spanish education at that time was restricted to men.

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litaruby: Happy birthday Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Wonderful woman.

WriteNowCoach: Happy Birthday to the amazing Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. She changed history. You can read more about her in my book, MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD:

StephenHenighan: The greatest writer in the Americas prior to the 19th century was a woman. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was born on this day in 1651.

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PoetNotRockStar: “I love, enchantingly. I live in pain.” — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, tr. by Judith Thurman, from “Sonnet 165”

benbenghini: Will my first year non-majors find the humor and wit in Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz?

banknoteworld: Mexico 200 Pesos, 2014. The front shows an open book and a quill in OVI, an inkwell, a library window, the portrait of the writer, Juana de Asbaje y Ramirez de Santillana (Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz) and the map of Mexico.

BurlHorniachek: A sonnet by Mexican poet Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Alan S. Trueblood. From A Sor Juana Anthology (Harvard UP, 1988).

AGUAVlVA: i just know sor juana inés de la cruz would've loved listening to arca.

exxxhumed: "Love opened a mortal wound. In agony, I worked the blade to make it deeper." Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - 1651-1695

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loyola_theology: Loyola Maryland Theology department was pleased to host Dr. Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado to present a public lecture on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz --a prolific writer and female theologian of the 17th-century Latin America.

CaballeroAnaMa: Sor Juana Inés De la Cruz became a nun so that she could keep learning. her poem CAPRICE is about a "him." very much not about Him. written in 17th century Mexico.

pierres_glasses: “Love opened a mortal wound. In agony, I worked the blade To make it deeper” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695)

UdallScott: I've been reading primary and secondary literature on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; she's an excellent resource for research in Science and Religion.

TUntamend: This people clearly haven’t heard nor read about Luis de Gongora or Sor Juana Ines de la cruz! READ is FREE!

POETSorg: Love opened a mortal wound. In agony, I worked the blade to make it deeper. —Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique

RMaxico: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz retort to José Montero on Jealousy is proto Nitzschean, proving once and for all that truth is a woman.

JSTOR_Daily: Condemned by the male hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz became a founding mother of Mexican literature and a Hispanic/Chicana/Latina feminist icon.

kairoticast: For this week's episode we're doing a bit of reading on Helene Cixous, Sojourner Truth, and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. To give you some indication of where we're headed.

PHEF1988: This week we added Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, Amanda Serrano, Nydia Simone, Oscar de la Renta, Celia Cruz, Garrison Ortiz, and Laurie Hernandez to our Hispanic Hero Stamp Collection! Who will be added next week? Stay tuned to find out!

RV_Panthers: Pioneer of women's rights when neither feminism nor gender equality had entered our lexicon, Mexican-born nun Sor Juana Inês de la Cruz a 17th-century feminist writer and thinker most known for her work "Respuesta a Sor Filotea," arguing a woman's right to education. Unstoppable!

MoxyMolly: Then, we'll pivot to another play that focuses on colonization and encounter in the form of Loa to the Divine Narcissus by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. We covered House of Desires in S1 and students are pumped to dig into this religious play in combo with her secular comedia work.

POETSorg: Who thankless flees me, I with love pursue, Who loving follows me, I thankless flee; —Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Peter H. Goldsmith

PHEF1988: Sor Juana Inês de la Cruz was a talented writer but was not allowed to attend university. She became a nun in 1667, over the years formed a small library, and published many of her own works. She is widely regarded as the first published feminist of the New World.

UNAMChicago: Download Cultura.UNAM! It poetry, theater, music, conferences, science and more to listen online or download. Carlos Fuentes, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, among many others. Google play:

FamilySupport1: Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15-October 15. This month, join us in honoring the contributions of–and the diversity and culture within–Hispanic communities. Today we are highlighting Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

ShadanAbdullah8: “I don’t study to know more, but to ignore less.” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Matsumaru_kun: A GENUINE SJW would share the ideologies of people like Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Salvador Allende, and Nelson Mandela, and advocate for the racial minorities and other ones which don't have more,

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STRC_DePaul: Join the CLR and LALS next Thursday for a book reading, conversation, and signing with New York Times bestselling author and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Chair, Erika L. Sánchez! You don’t want to miss this! This event is free and open to the public.

pinkrocktopus: While we’re all talking about the face of a certain woman on currency worldwide: I’d like to draw your attention to Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz, a multilingual Mexican polymath poet, author, philosopher, composer and nun. She died in 1695, and is featured on the 1000 peso bill.

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yosoyangi3: Favorite paintings of Sor Juana Ines De la Cruz, the tenth muse and the first published feminist of New Spain (Mexico) under Spanish rule. She was also wrote love letters to The vireina.

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IISUofT: Based on the poem by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Khadija Shafi conveys the greatness of God through the masterfully poetic details of the routines of nature and the world around her. Read this beautiful reflection here:

rida446: “Love opened a mortal wound. In agony, I worked the blade to make it deeper.” - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - (1651-1695), tr. Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique (via decreation)

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libr8vtherapy: I wholeheartedly believe the books should be given to Mexico and housed with the highest archival equipment available. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is arguably the earliest writer on feminism in the Americas.



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