Leaving My Comfort Zone Mujeres de Maiz is a public women's activist organization. Their goal is to inspire women by making safe places that provide art education, and publishing opportunities for a magazine. The magazine is a self-publishing magazine that gives women the power of speech and presents visual artists and poets. Mujeres de Maiz also host multiple events. These events include writing workshops, organic gardening classes, herbal hikes etc. Mujeres de Maiz’s magazine and events bring together diverse women from all over the world. They have encouraged women to interact and make plans for political issues. One of the events that Mujeres de Maiz holds is a live art show. The live art show consists of spoken word and music. Their 17th Anniversary Live Art Show was held on Sunday March 9, 2014 at The Vex in Los Angeles. When going to the event, there was a sense of being uncomfortable. I went from being in a well-known area to an area I knew nothing about. I had left the small neighborhood and went to the Walgreens that was on the next block. It felt very comfortable since I frequent this Walgreens quite often. I took the same street I’ve taken every day for the past 13 years. I took it every day to go to element, middle and high school had gotten to the intersecting streets that my middle school was on. When I turned away from my school having it behind me I lost sense of direction. It wasn’t until I had passed a community college that my older sister attended, that I understood where I was. I passed a grassy area and saw children playing soccer. As soon as I passed Pierce College I felt uncomfortable since I have never been beyond the community college. Pass Pierce College was hills with lots of grass. It had a forestry ... ... middle of paper ... ...an unknown area, made me feel adventurous. I truly enjoyed doing it and plan to do this more often. The event itself was different than expected. I had expected the traditional art gallery walk through. I think that what I will remember most about the event is that I did something wouldn’t normally do as well as the jewelry the venders sold and the amazing performers. I really enjoyed the performers’ music and got chills when I heard them sing. I hope that I get a chance to hear them again. This event didn’t seem to connect to anything that we learned in class at first, but it became clearer to me that it really did. It related to class in a sense that Mujeres de Maiz talk about important issue that are all around us and effect everyone such as gender race and class. These are the same topics we talked about in class and how media influence us based on these topics.
What do I see in her performance? Her art performance “The Artist is Present” is the first career exhibition the MoMA under took for a performan...
Women in Mexico and the United States of America have played an important role structuring their society and elevating their status. Between 1846 and 1930, the stereotype and position of women within these countries differed vastly from one another. While various traditional roles of women remained the same, the manner in which they were viewed differed. In many ways, women in Mexico held a higher position than those in the United States during this time.
This investigation will examine a few key works by the anonymous female artist group known in popular culture as the Guerrilla Girls. In this essay, it will reveal several prominent themes within the group's works that uncover the racial and gender inequalities in politics, art and pop culture with the use of humor. These collaborating artists work and operate with a variety of mediums, their works display a strong message concerned with activism connected by humor allowing the Guerrilla Girls to communicate and resonate a more powerful message to the viewer. The ways in which this collaborating group has employed many questions and facts against the hierarchy and historical ideologies which have exploited women and their roles in art. This investigation will allow the reader to identify three areas in which the Guerrilla Girls apply certain forms of humor to transform society’s view on the prominent issue of gender in the art world.
It was the fall of 2010 and little did I know that my world was about to change drastically. We had moved back to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2008 after living in Mexico, and I was starting to enjoy my life in the dairy state. My 6th Grade classes had just started at Bullen Middle School. It was right at this time when my world seemingly got flipped upside down. My parents had a family meeting and informed my siblings and me that we were moving to a small Iowa town called Orange City. I had feelings of nervousness, excitement, and sadness all mixed together.
A revolution occurs when a need for drastic change is necessary to alter ones way of living. The change they are fighting for would end up to be a positive impact once victory prevails, but of course with every battle there are disagreements and violent quarrels. Revolution may seem to be a negative connotation, but there are always two sides to every story. Just like many other countries around the world a Latin American country called Mexico went through a revolution of their own. Although the Mexican Revolution was mainly fought for the distribution of land, it opened a gateway for the women. One of their main issues during the Mexican revolution dealt with women and their struggled determination for equality. Having many roles in society with restrictions placed upon them, an urge for mobilization, and a wonderfully strong woman role model named Hermila Galindo, it gave them all a reason for the extra push they needed for the change they wanted for the future. Being able to finally put their voice in action the women of Mexico fought proudly for what they believed was right.
The picture of pre-revolutionary Mexican women was of a woman who had to lived her life constantly in the male shadow. These women were consumed by family life, marriage, and the Catholic Church, and lived silently behind their dominant male counterparts (Soto 31-32). In 1884 (prior to the revolution) the government passed the Mexican Civil Code. It dramatically restricted women's rights at home and at work (Bush and Mumme 351). Soto states that the code "sustains an almost incredible inequality between the conditions of husband and wife, restricts in an exaggerated and arbitrary manner those rights due the woman, and…erases and nullifies her personality" (qtd. Bush and Mumme 351).
...a half years ago, I figured that compared to most people, I was fairly aware. Since then, the most important thing I’ve learned is how much I don’t know. I don’t know what it is like to go to class and be the only dark spot on white linen. I don’t know what it is like to have to fight mentally, physically, and spiritually to preserve a cultural identity. I don’t know what it is like to fear running at night. I don’t know what it is like to be feared if I run at night. I don’t know what it is like to live under a shroud of stereotypes. I don’t know what it is like to have people who instruct me subtly ignore me and people who sit next to me subtly avoid me.
Women had a major stake in the Mexican Revolution, which began roughly in 1910 under the reign of Porfirio Diaz, considered a dictator by many historians, who ran Mexico with an iron first for around 26 years. Under his fierce dictatorship, women of all classes did not fare well.
When Mexicans and Puerto Ricans moved to Chicago in the late 1900s, they encountered many issues without any help. Cases of domestic violence and lack of education and jobs emerged in the Latino community. Latino immigrants populated the Pilsen neighborhood and didn't have many services or resources available for them when they needed assistance. After no signs of improvement were apparent, 15 women stood up and decided to make a change of their own. Mujeres Latinas En Accion formed to help Latina women and their families by providing services, fighting for the better of Latinas and giving help to those who need it.
As I walked toward a bus full of strangers, using my sunglasses to shield the tears forming in my eyes, I couldn’t help but to be apprehensive of what was to become of the next twenty-three days of my life. As I trudged up the stairs of the bus leaving behind all that was known, I couldn’t help but wonder; What have I gotten myself into?
The main strategy followed to translate this text was a domesticating method. The translator tried to make the text understandable and clear to target readers, bringing it closer to English culture as much as possible. After analysing the source text, it is necessary to comment the high number of quotation marks, in some cases, misused which difficulties to read. This is the case of “La Tierra de las Mujeres”, because the titles in Spanish must be written in italics, according to Fundéu.
In the book Like Water for Chocolate, the women of the De La Garza family are all very strong in their own ways. Each of the three sisters Tita, Gertrudis, and Rosaura and the mother Mama Elena have special strengths and qualities that best describe them.
For a long time, feminism has failed to include the issues of Latina women. When the feminist movement began, it focused on the issues of one specific group: white, American, middle-class women; therefore, it excluded Latinas, and women of color in general. Latina women realized that they needed to stand up for themselves because if they did not do it, then no one would. Mainstream feminists were not acknowledging their issues; thus, it pushed the need for Latina feminism. Without Latina feminism, Latina issues would not have came to light and would be ignored by many, even non-Latina women. Even though women were fighting for their rights, they seemed to lack the inclusion of all women of any color, ethnicity, race, and class.
Yrache Jiménez, L. (2007): “Imagen de la mujer y el hombre en publicidad”, en Plaza y Delgado, 2007.
In this Essay, I will enlighten you about the “Dia de los Muertos” in the Spanish culture. It will contain the history of the holiday, the events that go on during it, and the food eaten on that day. One thing that you must remember is that Dia de los Muertos traditions vary from town to town because Mexico is not culturally monolithic.