On the occasion of the exhibition ""To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art after Chicanismo,"" the Museum?s first digital exhibition, MCASD is pleased to present a reading of cultural theorist Gloria Anzald?a?s seminal text ""Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza"" (1987). Organized by exhibition curator Alana Hernandez, this reading of Anzald?a?s text, features artists, academics, curators, and students from around the country to read the text aloud. Timed on the feast day of the Virgin de Guadalupe on December 12, this day-long reading will be screened via the MCASD?s YouTube Channel.
In her groundbreaking text Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Anzald?a established the US/Mexico borderlands as a site where a myriad of languages and cultures coexist-boldly giving birth to an identity that Anzald?a coined as the ?new mestiza.? Her pivotal text continues to be revolutionary in underscoring a livelihood and vernacular specific to those who navigate the borderlands. Throughout the text, Anzald?a points to language as a source of both identity and cultural hybridity, switching between English, Spanish, and Indigenous dialects. In doing so, she highlights and celebrates the identity of the new mestiza.
Participants include: Gabriel Almedia Baroja, Mely Barrag?n, Ondine Chavoya, Marissa del Toro, Clarissa Dominguez, Mariana Fernandez, Marco Antonio Flores, Alberto Garcia Rodriguez, Anthony Graham, Ra?l Guerrero, Alana Hernandez, Philomena Lopez Rivas, Luisa Mart?nez, Alessandra Moctezuma, Maurico Mu?oz, Omar Pimenta, Christal P?rez, Armando Pulido, Armando Rascon, Katie Ruiz, Cris Scorza, Itza Vilaboys
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location: Streaming Online
Saturday, December 12 - 11:00 AM
In her groundbreaking text Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Anzald?a established the US/Mexico borderlands as a site where a myriad of languages and cultures coexist-boldly giving birth to an identity that Anzald?a coined as the ?new mestiza.? Her pivotal text continues to be revolutionary in underscoring a livelihood and vernacular specific to those who navigate the borderlands. Throughout the text, Anzald?a points to language as a source of both identity and cultural hybridity, switching between English, Spanish, and Indigenous dialects. In doing so, she highlights and celebrates the identity of the new mestiza.
Participants include: Gabriel Almedia Baroja, Mely Barrag?n, Ondine Chavoya, Marissa del Toro, Clarissa Dominguez, Mariana Fernandez, Marco Antonio Flores, Alberto Garcia Rodriguez, Anthony Graham, Ra?l Guerrero, Alana Hernandez, Philomena Lopez Rivas, Luisa Mart?nez, Alessandra Moctezuma, Maurico Mu?oz, Omar Pimenta, Christal P?rez, Armando Pulido, Armando Rascon, Katie Ruiz, Cris Scorza, Itza Vilaboys
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location: Streaming Online
Saturday, December 12 - 11:00 AM
