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'''Gladys Elizabeth Tzul Tzul''' (born 1982) is a [[Maya peoples|Maya]] [[Kʼicheʼ people|K'iche']] [[Activism|activist]], [[Intellectual|public intellectual]], [[Sociology|sociologist]], and [[Visual arts|visual artist]] who was one of the first to study indigenous communal politics and gender relationships in Guatemala.
[[File:MX TV POETA GUATEMALTECA GLADYS TZUL.jpg|alt=A woman with long brown hair wearing an embroidered top in three-quarter view smiles at the camera.|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul, at the fifth Festival of Indigenous Cultures, Peoples and Original Neighborhoods in Mexico City, 2018.]]
== Biography ==
Tzul Tzul was born in a small K'iche' community in [[Totonicapán]].<ref name=":0"></ref> She claims to be a descendant of Atanasio Tzul, a K'iche' leader who led an indigenous revolution in 1820.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== Academics and Activism ==
She earned masters from the [[Alberto Hurtado University]] in Chile and a PhD in sociology from [[Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla]] in Mexico.<ref name=":2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":3">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Her scholarly work focuses on the relationships of indigenous women within their communities and with larger political structures, such as federal governments.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":4">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In many of her articles, Tzul Tzul describes how indigenous women resist domination and exploitation through communal democracy in the [[Andes]] and [[Mesoamerica]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2) Gladys Tzul Tzul|url=https://www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/7a052353-5edf-45fe-a7ab-72c6121665b4/la-forma-comunal-de-la-resistencia|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Revista de la Universidad de México|language=Spanish}}</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":6"></ref> Indigenous land ownership is also one of her key beliefs.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":1" />
[[File:Gladys Tzul Tzul at MX RC VOLUNTAD DE VIDA.jpg|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul giving a talk in 2018 in Mexico City.]]
One of Tzul Tzul's case studies is the [[Ixcán]] highland village of Santa María Tzejá, an indigenous community that was destroyed in 1982 as part of the [[ethnic cleansing]] of the Maya during the [[Guatemalan Civil War]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> As rebuilding efforts began in the 1990s, women in the village linked alcohol to increased violence and began to organize efforts to prohibit the sale of alcohol.<ref name=":5" /> Tzul Tzul describes the successful regulation of alcohol starting in 1994 and the accompanying decrease in [[domestic violence]] as a success of the "communal process of historical [and indigenous] self-regulation," which could represent the [[Intersectionality|intersectional]] concerns of indigenous women in a way that federal governance could not.<ref name=":5" />
A key part of her activism is the idea that individual indigenous communities best understand their own needs.<ref></ref><ref name=":0" /> She is influenced by the work of [[Michel Foucault]] and [[Silvia Federici]],<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":1" /> and has argued that indigenous communities can resist political domination through language and through their continued existence.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
In 2012, Tzul Tzul faced persecution for her efforts to bring light to the massacre of indigenous leaders; she was an expert witness in the 2016 trials that saw the exoneration of community leaders.<ref></ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
She has written that indigenous communities have responded flexibly to the [[COVID-19 pandemic|Covid-19 pandemic]] despite government neglect because of indigenous authorities' use of native languages and support for communal markets.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
[[File:MX RC VOLUNTAD DE VIDA - 43718725394 Gladys Tzul Tzul.jpg|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul giving a talk in 2018 in Mexico City. ]]
She is also the founder of Amaq', an organization that provides legal guidance to indigenous peoples.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":7">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== Honors and Awards ==
In 2017, she received the [[Berta Cáceres]] scholarship, named in honor of the Honduran indigenous activist.<ref name=":3" />
Tzul Tzul received the 2018 "[[Voltaire]] Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Difference" from the [[University of Potsdam]] in Germany.<ref name=":7" />
== Visual Arts ==
Tzul Tzul is a member of the indigenous photographers' collective “Con Voz Propia" (English: "In Their Own Voices" or "In Her Own Voice").<ref name=":2" /> The organization was established in response to federal programs to "liberate" indigenous women; instead, Con Voz Propia empowers indigenous women to represent themselves through photography.<ref name=":0" />
== Books Authored ==
* ''Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimea'ena (Systems of Indigenous Communal Government: Women and Lineage in Chuimea'ena).'' Guatemala, Editorial Maya' Wuj and the Sociedad Comunitaria de Estudios Estratégicos / Tz'i'kin, Centro de Investigación y Pluralismo Jurídico, 2016.
* ''Gobierno comunal indígena y estado guatemalteco: Algunas claves críticas para comprender su tensa relación (Indigenous Communal Government and the Guatemalan State: Some Critical Perspectives to Understand their Tense Relationship)''. Guatemala: Instituto Amaq', 2018.<ref name=":6" />
== References ==
[[Category:1982 births]]
[[Category:Guatemalan women activists]]
[[Category:Guatemalan women's rights activists]]
[[Category:Indigenous activists]]
[[Category:Indigenous activists of the Americas]]
[[Category:Indigenous women of the Americas]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[File:MX TV POETA GUATEMALTECA GLADYS TZUL.jpg|alt=A woman with long brown hair wearing an embroidered top in three-quarter view smiles at the camera.|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul, at the fifth Festival of Indigenous Cultures, Peoples and Original Neighborhoods in Mexico City, 2018.]]
== Biography ==
Tzul Tzul was born in a small K'iche' community in [[Totonicapán]].<ref name=":0"></ref> She claims to be a descendant of Atanasio Tzul, a K'iche' leader who led an indigenous revolution in 1820.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== Academics and Activism ==
She earned masters from the [[Alberto Hurtado University]] in Chile and a PhD in sociology from [[Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla]] in Mexico.<ref name=":2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":3">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Her scholarly work focuses on the relationships of indigenous women within their communities and with larger political structures, such as federal governments.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":4">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In many of her articles, Tzul Tzul describes how indigenous women resist domination and exploitation through communal democracy in the [[Andes]] and [[Mesoamerica]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2) Gladys Tzul Tzul|url=https://www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/7a052353-5edf-45fe-a7ab-72c6121665b4/la-forma-comunal-de-la-resistencia|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Revista de la Universidad de México|language=Spanish}}</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":6"></ref> Indigenous land ownership is also one of her key beliefs.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=":1" />
[[File:Gladys Tzul Tzul at MX RC VOLUNTAD DE VIDA.jpg|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul giving a talk in 2018 in Mexico City.]]
One of Tzul Tzul's case studies is the [[Ixcán]] highland village of Santa María Tzejá, an indigenous community that was destroyed in 1982 as part of the [[ethnic cleansing]] of the Maya during the [[Guatemalan Civil War]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> As rebuilding efforts began in the 1990s, women in the village linked alcohol to increased violence and began to organize efforts to prohibit the sale of alcohol.<ref name=":5" /> Tzul Tzul describes the successful regulation of alcohol starting in 1994 and the accompanying decrease in [[domestic violence]] as a success of the "communal process of historical [and indigenous] self-regulation," which could represent the [[Intersectionality|intersectional]] concerns of indigenous women in a way that federal governance could not.<ref name=":5" />
A key part of her activism is the idea that individual indigenous communities best understand their own needs.<ref></ref><ref name=":0" /> She is influenced by the work of [[Michel Foucault]] and [[Silvia Federici]],<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":1" /> and has argued that indigenous communities can resist political domination through language and through their continued existence.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
In 2012, Tzul Tzul faced persecution for her efforts to bring light to the massacre of indigenous leaders; she was an expert witness in the 2016 trials that saw the exoneration of community leaders.<ref></ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
She has written that indigenous communities have responded flexibly to the [[COVID-19 pandemic|Covid-19 pandemic]] despite government neglect because of indigenous authorities' use of native languages and support for communal markets.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
[[File:MX RC VOLUNTAD DE VIDA - 43718725394 Gladys Tzul Tzul.jpg|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul giving a talk in 2018 in Mexico City. ]]
She is also the founder of Amaq', an organization that provides legal guidance to indigenous peoples.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":7">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== Honors and Awards ==
In 2017, she received the [[Berta Cáceres]] scholarship, named in honor of the Honduran indigenous activist.<ref name=":3" />
Tzul Tzul received the 2018 "[[Voltaire]] Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Difference" from the [[University of Potsdam]] in Germany.<ref name=":7" />
== Visual Arts ==
Tzul Tzul is a member of the indigenous photographers' collective “Con Voz Propia" (English: "In Their Own Voices" or "In Her Own Voice").<ref name=":2" /> The organization was established in response to federal programs to "liberate" indigenous women; instead, Con Voz Propia empowers indigenous women to represent themselves through photography.<ref name=":0" />
== Books Authored ==
* ''Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimea'ena (Systems of Indigenous Communal Government: Women and Lineage in Chuimea'ena).'' Guatemala, Editorial Maya' Wuj and the Sociedad Comunitaria de Estudios Estratégicos / Tz'i'kin, Centro de Investigación y Pluralismo Jurídico, 2016.
* ''Gobierno comunal indígena y estado guatemalteco: Algunas claves críticas para comprender su tensa relación (Indigenous Communal Government and the Guatemalan State: Some Critical Perspectives to Understand their Tense Relationship)''. Guatemala: Instituto Amaq', 2018.<ref name=":6" />
== References ==
[[Category:1982 births]]
[[Category:Guatemalan women activists]]
[[Category:Guatemalan women's rights activists]]
[[Category:Indigenous activists]]
[[Category:Indigenous activists of the Americas]]
[[Category:Indigenous women of the Americas]]
[[Category:Living people]]
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