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Book Anthology
Mujeres de Maiz en movimiento
Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento
Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist PraxiS
Our New Book!
Published March 2024 on University of Arizona Press
Chronicling its quarter-century-long herstory, this collection weaves together diverse stories with attention to their larger sociopolitical contexts. The book crosses conventional genre boundaries through the inclusion of poetry, visual art, testimonios, and essays.
MdM’s political-ethical-spiritual commitments, cultural production, and everyday practices are informed by Indigenous and transnational feminist of color artistic, ceremonial, activist, and intellectual legacies. Contributors fuse stories of celebration, love, and spirit-work with an incisive critique of interlocking oppressions, both intimate and structural, encouraging movement toward “a world where many worlds fit.”
The multidisciplinary, intergenerational, and critical-creative nature of the project coupled with the unique subject matter makes the book a must-have for high school and college students, activist-scholars, artists, community organizers, and others invested in social justice and liberation.
“The members of Mujeres de Maiz have been building and enriching Chicanx/Latinx, feminist[s] of color, and activist communities for [more than] twenty-five years. Finally, we have a text to document the years of praxis they have been enacting and their visions for the future.”
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Meet the Editors
Dr. Amber Rose Gonzalez, Felicia Montes and Dr. Nadia Zepeda.
Photo by Textli Gallegos
CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:
Amber Rose Gonzalez, Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes, Nadia Zepeda, Margaret Alarcon, Susy Zepeda, Norell Martinez, Megan Pennings, Karen Mary Davalos, Lara Medina, Iris de Anda, Cristina Gorocica, Joanna Mixpe Ley, Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson Guerrero, Michelle L. Lopez, D’Lo, Liza Hita, Dionne Espinoza, Celia Herrera Rodriguez, Martha E. Gonzalez, Marisol Lydia Torres, Rachel Negrete Thorson, Gina Aparicio, Claudia Mercado, Skyrb Anu, Faith Santilla, Celina Jacques, Lilia Ramirez, Linda Vallejo, Marisol Allen, Vickie Vertiz, Xitlalic Guijosa, Virginia Grise, Maya Chinchilla, Diana Pando, Claudia Serrato, Mariana Moscoso, Panquetzani, Luisa Leija, Maribel Martinez, Marilynn Montaño, Lizette Hernandez, Mariela de la Paz, Pola Lopez, Crystal Galindo, Povi-Tamu Bryant, Robert Loza, Natalina Ross, Christine X Vega, Patricia P Moya & Patricia Zamorano
Reviews of the book:
“We are here, living inheritors of de-colonial feminist movements. We gather across continental divides as ‘sisters of the yam,’ ‘womanists,’ ‘third world liberationists,’ ‘nepantleras’ and as feminist-of-color creators, students, teachers—practitioners of the possible. Today, we are called to gather as ‘Mujeres de Maiz.’ This book’s chapters impart what we have learned and want to give back: cooperative modes of power, indigenous systems of communalism, philosophies and practices of non-violence, ancient spiritual practices and time-honored medicine ways. All readers are invited to join, to carry mujerista legacies forward, to re-member, to re-stor(y)!”
PAST Book Release Details
OUR book release took place on 4/2/24
Book Release and Live Art Show
Prayer | Platica | Poetry | Performance
Sunday, April 7th, 2024, 5-8pm
at The Floricanto Center for the Performing Arts
2900 Calle Pedro Infante, Los Angeles, California 90063 (Boyle Heights)
*Event sponsored by the Mellon Foundation.
Additional agradecimiento for event:
Maria Rusbi Vargaz
Platicas en Movimiento. Bringing to life the Art, Activism, Palabra and Poesia in the book:
Opening: Jessa Calderon (@jessa_songwriter1)
Emcee: D'Lo (@dlocokid)
Platicas en Movimiento. Bringing to life the Art, Activism, Palabra and Poesia in the book:
Introduction to the book by Dr. Amber Rose Gonzalez (@amber_rose_go)
Herstory video on Mujeres de Maiz by MdM cofounder and documentarian:
Claudia Mercado (@7_serpent_films)Healing and Wellbeing within Mujeres de Maiz with: Dr. Nadia Zepeda (@nadiazepeda_) and In Lak Ech (@inlakechmdm)
Music and Maestra teachings of Dr. Martha E. Gonzalez (@marthaactivista) and Jessa Calderon (@jessa_songwriter1)
Visual Arts platica with artist Lilia Ramirez "Liliflor" (@liliflorart) and art historian, Michelle L. Lopez
Palabra & Poetry with Faith Santilla (@faithsantilla) and Iris de Anda (@lawriterunderground)
Food for sale by Marlene Aguilar of Irekuarhikua