Cassie Hendricks

[julietasalgado]

Undocumented, Unafraid & Unapologetic

New York City

June 11, 2013

© Julieta Salgado

[jopolniaczek]

Mosquita y Mari (2012)

[hendr685]

“In this country 'American' means 'white.' Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Toni Morrison

[hendr685]

‘Catch an Illegal’ Game Thwarted, Becomes Immigration Reform Rally - COLORLINES

Actress America Ferrera joined around 500 students and advocates at the rally.

[csmcgmont]

Please drop Trader Joe’s a postcard! We were told in my Chicana 3212 class at the University of Minnesota that Trader Joe’s does business with a grape picker who allows inhuman conditions to exist in their grapevine fields. In 2008, a 19 year-old pregnant woman died of heat stroke because water…

[thepeoplesrecord]

Today I wanted to share some quotes by several-decade-spanning American activist and self-identifying revolutionary Grace Lee Boggs. Here’s a near-release documentary which she is the subject of.

Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future.

More here: http://americanrevolutionaryfilm.com

These image quotes are all available to share on Facebook via The People’s Record Facebook page as well. 

[rpmfm]

First of all, I’m not a big fan of the term ‘reappropriation.’ I like to call it an active decolonization.

DJ Bear Witness of A Tribe Called Red | Toronto Standard (via rpmfm)

[hendr685]

By understanding the past, Chicana historians hope that contemporary women will be better equipped to cope with the present and to determine their future...Some Chicano males, already in leadership and authority positions, challenged women’s participation in activities outside the home. Their claims were that “everyone knew”, and history, culture and tradition established that Mexican American women could/should only be homemakers and mothers. Chicano activists who acted differently were vulnerable to charges of being “Agringadas,” “Anglocized,” “feminists” and worst of all “anti-traditionalists.”

Martha Cotera, Diosa y Hembra: The History and Heritage of Chicanas in the U.S. 

[hendr685]

Martha Cotera and her husband discuss the murder of their son and their views on the death penalty. 

[hendr685]

Martha Cotera is a Chicana writer and activist. Born in Mexico in 1938, she moved to El Paso, TX with her mother when she was 8 years old. She graduated from the University of El Paso in 1962 with degrees in English and History. She began her career as a librarian and became heavily involved in all sorts of organizations in Texas. These include PASSO and the farmworkers movement. Along with a few other educators, she helped start TEAMS, a organization consisting of educators who supported students who walked out during the Mexican American Youth Organization walkouts. She founded Jacinto Trevino College, a school for Mexican Americans to prepare teachers for bilingual education programs. She was also very involved in the Raza Unida Party and ran for a seat on the board of education under this party. In '73, she and other women founded The Texas Women's Political Caucus. In '74 she founded a non-profit Chicana Research and Learning Center in Austin. She has written two books, Diosa y Hembra: The History and Heritage of Chicanas in the U.S. and The Chicana Feminist. She continues her work in El Paso, Texas. 

[hendr685]

Excerpts from an Interview with Martha Cotera

“For woman, feminist or not, that were growing up in the 70’s and 80’s it was very difficult. There was a lot of antagonism against women, even against the woman not declared feminist. Why? Because we were finally able to get phone numbers on our own, because were able to get bank accounts on our own, we were able to get abortions, because we could get home mortgages. We couldn’t get credit! In 1975, I started a business and I had to give up after two weeks and have my husband sign for me. I signed his phone bill payment for 20 years and the phone company would not let me get a phone on my own. Women don’t realize they couldn’t open bank accounts, they couldn’t get phone numbers on their own, they couldn’t buy a home. Women today have very little knowledge because our history is not taught.”  

"If you are able to get a phone you’re a feminist. You’re already cashing in on the feminist legacy. That’s why I think we need to bring back that pride of being a feminist. If you’re not a feminist you must be some kind of weird person because you’re not owning up to your womanhood. If you’re a woman you’re a feminist. That’s all there is too it, unless you’re dead. If you’re a woman living breathing and surviving and for a woman to survive you have to be a feminist. I already see my little granddaughter having to stand up for her rights. To deny being a feminist is to deny acknowledgment of what you have.” 

--Martha Cotera 

[floricanto-canela]

In my land there are no distinctions. The barbed wire politics of oppression have been torn down long ago. The only reminder of past battles, lost or won, is a slight rutting in the fertile fields. In my land people write poems about love, full of nothing but contented childlike…

[mydaywithd-deactivated20180408]

(via Feminism / Political / from the Vancouver Rape Relief Shelter)

[yenntrann016]

These are two pieces done my Carmen Loma Garza. She was born in Texas in 1948. A graduate of the Texas Arts and Industry University, Juarez-Lincoln/Antioch Graduate school and San Francisco State University with a M.A. In the 1960’s she joined the Chicano Movement which inspired her artwork. 

[hendr685]

This bottom work is really interesting to me. Everyone in the picture is turned and looking at the mother, including La Virgen who is looking down on her. It is almost a way of saying that this woman is a truer representation of model to follow than La Virgen, because she is tangible and human. 

[crystalgalindoart]

For throwback thursday, I am posting a painting I completed just a couple months ago. I was in my studio and needed a break from the larger piece I was painting, so I grabbed a medium sized stretched canvas, and went to town on it (with the extra colors on my palette). Selena, you are gone but clearly never forgotten. You live on through your music, and through the millions of people who probably recorded your last concierto at the astrodome off of univision back in 1995 (I was one of them). hehe… pass it on if you see this painting and love selena!

[loveminaxthe12]

“I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails…”

~Gloria Anzaldúa

Birth: September 26,1942

Pass over: May 15,2004

Gloria Anzaldúa, was not only a scholar of Chicana Cultural, feminist, and queer theory but was a ‘soul feeder’ to those whom identified strongly with the struggles that Anzaldúa had brought to the light.She was a person who spoke truth about Chicana identity. The disadvantage, the marginalization,the unspoken truths,the internalized hate,the withdraw from self and community all of which are apart of the Chicana experience. She expresses these struggles through her profound words as well as her own experiences throughout her books. She spoke about the unspeakable, airing all the ‘dirty laundry’ under her brave account. 

She attended Pan American University receiving her BA in English, Art , and Secondary Education then attending University of Texas at Austin receving her MA in English and Education. 

Gloria also dealt with Endocrine, a disorder/disease that caused problems with her sexual reproduction, causing her to menstruate at the age of three and stop physically growing at the age of twelve later resulting to her undergoing a hysterectomy. 

Anzaldúa was also a very spiritual being that in many cases readers could pick up from. Her experience as being a ‘free spirit,  more or less, originated from a lot of out of body experiences that she exhibited. With this, it became another piece that contributed to her work. Herself was always painted within her work, she had always laid herself out as open as her books were. This allowed for so many people (readers. i.e.) to connect to her struggles as being Chicana…the Chicana Identity, in general. 

Some of her books that she wrote: 

-Boredlands/ La Frontera (As we all know-MY FAVORITE) 

-This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color

-This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions For Transformation

-The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader

-Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color 

[lguti21]

Sandra Cisneros

was born in Chicago in 1954. She earned her English degree at Loyola University of Chicago and earned her Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Iowa. Cisneros is a writer who has worked in the K-12 system as well as in colleges and universities. Her work includes books like Bad Boys, Loose Woman, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, The House on Mango Street, and Carmelo among many others.

[dahlk067]

could you post the poem you read in class?