WaXicana
las mujeres in motion, a collective of waxicana spoken word activist performance art poets with the purpose of “empowering mujeres to say whatever the f-ck they want!!!” the mujeres in motion collective is made up of five women. maritza soledad, laura alviso, madeline alviso, elisa miranda and vanessa alviso. all have stage names, respectively: soledad, lala, nena, lil bit and bashi. i have worked extensively for over five years with the alviso family, worked on a guerrilla teatro cooperative with the alvisos and maritza soledad in the spring of 2006. collectiely we co-hosted a benefit for atenco and the south central farm on june 10, 2006 in seattle, wa in solidarity with self-help graphics in los angeles.
in the following case study i will give a brief biographical sketch of each member of the collective, discuss the historical context of chicana artist collectives and cultural work in the pacific northwest, make a brief intervention on the discussion of high vs. low art followed by some literary -n-lysis of the poetry of the mujeres in motion collective.
what i hope to demonstrate through this case study is to give voice to a particular style of resistance culture contextualized within an anti-imperialist, anti-patriarchal, new tribalist, waxicanista aesthetic de mentalidad toricida. what i hope to accomplish is to encourage other cultural workers by demonstrating that there are folks out there, who are collectively working to make a world where many worlds can exist.
when we go out to visit raza from the southwest, everyone knows we are waxicanas and d-mn proud of it!
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