FUCK YEAH, XICANA POWER!

@fuckyeahxicanapower

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This isn’t what I usually write about, but I think it’s important.

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Niña oaxaqueña entre magueyes. Por @enigmatino #neomexicanismos #Oaxaca #🇲🇽 ¡Feliz lunes!

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Tonantzin Por GM Meave #neomexicanismos

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La Virgen llora por sus hijos de Ayotzinapa

artistjakeprendez

This painting has taken 7 years to finish. It started out with a concept for a series entitled “Norman Rockwell in Post Racial America” that questioned this idea of “Americana” and an idealized America that never existed. This was before “make America great again” was even a thing. I wanted to re-imagine Norman Rockwell images with POC folks as the subject and what does our America really look like. I never felt I was ready to pull it off talent wise or in other words I didn’t think my talent was up to pare with my ideas. Well 7 years later here is the first finished painting in the series. The title is “A Chicana in College” 36" x 24" oil on canvas. It is a reinterpretation of Norman Rockwells “Willie Gillis Goes to College” which was about the all american boy going to college after fighting in WWII. In the original (which i’ll post in the comments) Willie is sitting in the windowsill of his dorm room reading with his war memorabilia and medals on his wall. In my painting a young Chicana is in her dorm room windowsill reading books such as Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands and Rudy Acuna’s Occupied America with her protest posters (war memorabilia) on her walls such as “Undocumented Unafraid” and “Viva la Mujer”. Representation is important and our story will be heard. www.jakeprendez.com

A poem I wrote on the femicide in Ciudad Juárez / a call to end violence against womxn everywhere.

If you are part of or support neo-Mexica revisionism or any neo-indigenous revisionism you are supporting erasure and violence towards Indigenous peoples.

Whether it be the Mexica Movement (which is NOT the only neo-Mexica group), neo-Taino “tribes”, Mayanism, Rainbow Warriors or whatever else; it is all appropriative, silencing, full of erasure and violent.

You do not become Indigenous by yelling that you are Indigenous the loudest.

You do not become Indigenous by the popularity of your ideas among non-Indigenous majority populations or by misleading Indigenous folks who are not familiar with the Peoples you falsely claim.

You do not become Indigenous by propaganda.

You do not become Indigenous by defining indigeneity so that it suits you.

You do not become Indigenous by self-imposing rules based on your interpretation of non-indigenous scholarship.

You do not become Indigenous by silencing the Indigenous peoples you are most directly violent towards.

If you want to be “enlightened” if you want to find your People and learn more about heritage down your family lines you do that respectfully through your People/Nation and them alone. You cannot get this from books. You cannot get this from those who strong arm their way into Indigenous spaces.

In addendum because I keep getting asks:

There is nothing wrong or illegitimate about being mestizx.

There is nothing wrong or illegitimate about identifying as Latinx.

You are not “more Indigenous” than Indigenous people who also identify with the term Latinx if they choose to just because you subscribe to neo-indigenous rhetoric that demands that you identify as Indigenous (as a non-Indigenous person) and not Mestizx or Latinx.

You can have indigenous ancestry and not be “Indigenous”. The identity, how it is used in social context, and what it implies has to do with connection to culture, specifically to communities. To have indigenous ancestry =/= to be Indigenous.

Conflating the above two concepts actively threatens sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples and protection and survival of our cultures.

The violence surrounding assimilation in the histories of many Mestizx folks families is THE SAME violence being experienced today by Indigenous Peoples. You cannot separate out this violence as being specific to Mestizx people or claim you can speak on it better than Indigenous folks who are currently experiencing it. And you definitely cannot use it to silence Indigenous folks who are telling you that you are erasing and harming them.

You are not automatically a Bad Person™ for getting duped by and taken in by these harmful movements/groups. It doesn’t make you “stupid” or awful. They have power by numbers and long presence, they use a lot of propaganda, they use familiar Nationalism to question your legitimate identities. They fetishise Natives. They use familiar new-age, Magic/Mystical/Spiritual/One-With-Nature Indian tropes. They use familiar Strong/Stoic/Warrior Indian tropes. All the things they can do, which fraudulent groups and plastic Shamans have been doing for years, to attract you to their groups and movements.

who’s they (last bullet)?

the aforementioned harmful movements/groups.

artistjakeprendez

This painting has taken 7 years to finish. It started out with a concept for a series entitled “Norman Rockwell in Post Racial America” that questioned this idea of “Americana” and an idealized America that never existed. This was before “make America great again” was even a thing. I wanted to re-imagine Norman Rockwell images with POC folks as the subject and what does our America really look like. I never felt I was ready to pull it off talent wise or in other words I didn’t think my talent was up to pare with my ideas. Well 7 years later here is the first finished painting in the series. The title is “A Chicana in College” 36" x 24" oil on canvas. It is a reinterpretation of Norman Rockwells “Willie Gillis Goes to College” which was about the all american boy going to college after fighting in WWII. In the original (which i’ll post in the comments) Willie is sitting in the windowsill of his dorm room reading with his war memorabilia and medals on his wall. In my painting a young Chicana is in her dorm room windowsill reading books such as Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands and Rudy Acuna’s Occupied America with her protest posters (war memorabilia) on her walls such as “Undocumented Unafraid” and “Viva la Mujer”. Representation is important and our story will be heard. www.jakeprendez.com

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Brown Berets Second Chicano Moratorium Los Angeles, Ca. February 28, 1970

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Y’ALL THIS IS NOT A DRILL google did a feature for selena & it’s fucking amazing 😭😍 like BITCH they even gave the mic her iconic red lipstick stain lmao but anyway! this gorgeous video needs more views!!! & while ur at it, go give views to this photo gallery full of facts abt her that they also put together 💖

oboodashkwaanishiinh

Honoring all with indigenous features.

I remember when I was younger and this YouTuber I watched got rid of her indigenous nose and I was like heart broken

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Google has just released a massive digital collection of Latino art and history.

The Google Cultural Institute worked with the Smithsonian Latino Center, the UCLA Chicano Research Studies Center and dozens more to create this online archive. The collection features more than 2,500 pieces of art alone. This also covers other categories such as dance, food, film, music, sports, fashion, etc.

(Ballet Hispánico)

Here’s some interesting articles included as well:

Documenting Queer Latinx in LA

Diane Guerrero on the Day Her Family Was Deported

Hispanic experiences in 20th century America

Cuban Exile Experience

Fast Food, Tortillas, and the Art of Accepting Yourself

Los Muros Hablan: The Walls Speak

Resisting Exclusion: Rupture & Rebellion in 20th Century Mexican Art

From Hollywood to Havana: Five Decades of Cuban Posters Promoting U.S. Films

Gina Rodriguez on Representations of Latinos in the Media

There’s also videos, informationals, and virtual tours of museums and neighborhoods that highlight artwork.

You can learn about artists and see their work in extreme definition to see the finer details. Find information and the works of artists like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, or look at the history and work of Gronk, José Martí.

(Viva La Vida)

You can even see 150 of the permanent pieces from the pre-Hispanic section at The Mexican Museum. If you click on an individual piece it will even allow you to look at it in better detail and read a bit about it.

I’ve been scrolling forever looking at the artworks and artifacts section and I haven’t even looked at everything else yet.

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