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Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: A Feminist Festival of Artivism and Academia Celebrating the Mujeres de Maiz Book Release
April 23 @ 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm
You are invited to Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: A Feminist Festival of Artivism and Academia Celebrating the Mujeres de Maiz Book Release on Tuesday, 4/23/24 from 3:30-6:30 PM at Cal State Long Beach – Anatol Center (AS 119). The event will feature various artists, academics, and activists from the women’s art and wellness organization Mujeres de Maiz. Please join us to celebrate the release of the book anthology titled Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice and Feminist Praxis published by the University of Arizona Press.
This special event includes panels, poetry, performances, politics, posters, and art bringing the book to life featuring:
- Presentation & Panels by coeditors Dr. Amber Rose Gonzalez, Dr. Nadia Zepeda (CSULB alum) and Felicia Montes (new Assistant Professor, Chicano Latino Studies at CSULB)
- Performances by In Lak Ech and Jessa Calderon
- Poets including Indigemama and Luisa Leija (Long Beach locals)
- Art Panel by Linda Vallejo (CSULB alum) and Lilia Ramirez
- Live Poster Printing by Lilia ‘Liliflor’ Ramirez
- Event emcee D’Lo
About the anthology: Founded in 1997, Mujeres de Maiz (MdM) is an Indigenous Xicana-led spiritual artivist organization and movement by and for women and feminists of color. 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, testimonies and academic essays.
This free event is sponsored by the CLA’s Transnational Feminist Solidarities Initiative, the Department of Chicano Latino Studies, and Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Please see the attached flyers. We ask that you distribute it to your students and networks. For more information, please contact felicia.montes@csulb.edu. Thank you for your support. We hope to see you there.