“Mujeres de Maiz in Movimiento” Book Release in Los Angeles

Date: Sunday, April 7, 2024

Time: 5 – 8 p.m., PST

Where: The Floricanto Center for the Performing Arts, 2900 Calle Pedro Infante, East Los Angeles, CA

The editors and creators of Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento celebrate the release of their antholology and the 27th anniversary of Mujeres de Maiz on April 7 in East Los Angeles. The live art show and book release celebration includes prayer, platica, poetry and performance. Meet and celebrate with editors Amber Rose González, Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes, and Nadia Zepeda. This free event is open to the public. Free tickets and tickets including book purchase are available on Eventbrite.

About the book:

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, testimonios, and essays.

MdM’s 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.”