The University of Arizona Press
November 21, 2025
Mexico’s Canal Once (Channel Eleven, Mexico’s public television network) featured the Mujeres de Maiz organization on its Cooltureando program. The reporter interviewed Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes, co-editor with Amber Rose González, and Nadia Zepeda, of Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis. In the interview, Montes talks about the Mexican inspiration for Mujeres de Maiz, and the need to create a “safe space and a brave space” in Los Angeles for women who are artists and activists. She also emphasized the organization’s indigenous roots; she explained: “There’s a Native concept of braiding mind, body, and spirit. So we are always trying to put those together.” Montes visited Mexico City to share her work at Chicanxs Sin Fronteras, as part of “Encuentro de Cultura Chicana.”
Watch the Cooltureando video here.
About the book:
Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis‘ political-ethical-spiritual commitments, cultural production, and everyday practices are informed by Indigenous and transnational feminist of color artistic, ceremonial, activist, and intellectual legacies. Contributors fuse stories of celebration, love, and spirit-work with an incisive critique of interlocking oppressions, both intimate and structural, encouraging movement toward “a world where many worlds fit.”
The multidisciplinary, intergenerational, and critical-creative nature of the project coupled with the unique subject matter makes the book a must-have for high school and college students, activist-scholars, artists, community organizers, and others invested in social justice and liberation.
