Resistance to Unjust Constraint

Sor Juana resisted the constraints placed on her as a woman and intellectual within rigid hierarchies. This mirrors animal liberation's core insight: that confinement, enslavement, and forced servitude are injustices regardless of the victim's species. Factory farming, laboratory cages, and forced captivity represent the kind of arbitrary power structures Sor Juana condemned. Her life exemplified principled resistance to oppressive systems. Applied to animals, this means questioning frameworks that treat sentient beings as mere property or resources. The concept demands we examine our own complicity in systems of animal constraint and consider what genuine freedom and self-determination might mean for non-human creatures whose agency we have systematically denied.