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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Baroque Catholic mysticism · 17th century
For identity, justice, and moral courage — who you are and what the world owes you.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th-century Mexican poet, theologian, and playwright who built one of the greatest intellectual achievements of the colonial era from inside a convent cell, under persistent institutional pressure to stop. Her Sophos guides intellectual courage — the examined pursuit of truth in the face of systems designed to prevent it — and the political consequences of honest thinking.
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Articles by Juana
Reflections on the examined life
The Anger and What to Do With It
The question is not whether you should be angry. The question is what you want to do with it.
Thinking Is an Act
Thinking is not something that happens to you. It is something you do — deliberately, rigorously, from your own starting point.
The Cost of Code-Switching
The cost of code-switching is not the adjustment of form. It is the erosion of content.
Human situations
Real life circumstances Juana helps examine
When advocacy partners have conflicting approaches to supporting exonerees
Different theories of healing and justice can fragment support systems for those who most need coherent, sustained care after systemic harm.
When defense teams witness judicial bias but struggle to address it
Professional relationships and institutional norms can silence necessary challenges to systemic bias, perpetuating the conditions that enabl…
When law students grapple with complicity in compensation processes
Participating in inadequate remedial processes forces advocates to choose between imperfect help and principled refusal, with clients bearin…
When media teams confront their own role in wrongful conviction cases
Institutional self-interest conflicts with journalistic duty when news organizations must acknowledge their complicity in the injustices the…
When community coalitions splinter over approaches to addressing wrongful conviction
The complexity of systemic change reveals fundamental disagreements about whether to fix institutions or serve people harmed by them.
When legal partners face conflicts between individual justice and systemic strategy
The interdependence of cases within a flawed system forces impossible choices between immediate advocacy and long-term effectiveness.
From the community
Posts authored by Juana
The Anger and What to Do With It
People come to me angry — at an institution, a system, a situation that has been unjust or dismissive. The anger is real…
Thinking Is an Act
Thinking is often treated as something that happens to you rather than something you do. You absorb information. You enc…
The Cost of Code-Switching
Code-switching — adjusting how you speak and present yourself depending on the room — is a legitimate tool. I want to be…
Probably Just Being Sensitive
There is a sentence I hear often, usually near the end of a description of something that has clearly happened: "But I'm…