Genevieve Rodriguez is a Queer Latina cultural organizer working within theater/performance, visual arts y labor to learn, grow, challenge, heal and love alongside incredible jot@s in my communities. ANITA TIJERINA REVILLA Querida Maestra: Anzalduista y Muxerista Siempre Oil paint 2013 As a self-identified Anzalduista, her paintings are visual representations of muxeristas, Chican@/Latin@ feminists, and Joteria. Guided by Anzaldúa's call for healing and transformation, her art documents radical queer feminist love. Biography: For twenty years, Anita wanted to take an art class, so in 2011 she took her first art class. She's pleased to share her art with you, con mucho amor. Anita Tijerina Revilla is Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies at University of Nevada Las Vegas. She teaches Chicana/Latina Feminism, Critical Race Feminism and Radical Feminist and Queer Love. Her research focuses on student movements and social justice education, specifically in the areas of Chicana/Latina, immigrant, feminist and Queer rights activism. Her expertise are in the areas of Joteria Studies, Chicana/o Education, Women of Color Feminism, and Critical Race/Ethnic Studies. LUIS VALDERAS There Was a Time Mixed Media 2013 I create because I have always wanted to see further—to collapse borders, to transform and explore social and cultural ambiguities that exist in that space in between. Growing up on the frontera and my father’s stories revealed spaces of shared experiences. These stories and experiences, fueled with my interest in Mesoamerican mythology and iconography present themselves in my work. The images explore possibilities by isolating and rearranging iconic components of realities. By retelling my family’s story while at the same time representing them as collective cultural icons I connect the collective experience of past and present generations.
Genevieve Rodriguez is a Queer Latina cultural organizer working within theater/performance, visual arts y labor to learn, grow, challenge, heal and love alongside incredible jot@s in my communities. ANITA TIJERINA REVILLA Querida Maestra: Anzalduista y Muxerista Siempre Oil paint 2013 As a self-identified Anzalduista, her paintings are visual representations of muxeristas, Chican@/Latin@ feminists, and Joteria. Guided by Anzaldúa's call for healing and transformation, her art documents radical queer feminist love. Biography: For twenty years, Anita wanted to take an art class, so in 2011 she took her first art class. She's pleased to share her art with you, con mucho amor. Anita Tijerina Revilla is Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies at University of Nevada Las Vegas. She teaches Chicana/Latina Feminism, Critical Race Feminism and Radical Feminist and Queer Love. Her research focuses on student movements and social justice education, specifically in the areas of Chicana/Latina, immigrant, feminist and Queer rights activism. Her expertise are in the areas of Joteria Studies, Chicana/o Education, Women of Color Feminism, and Critical Race/Ethnic Studies. LUIS VALDERAS There Was a Time Mixed Media 2013 I create because I have always wanted to see further—to collapse borders, to transform and explore social and cultural ambiguities that exist in that space in between. Growing up on the frontera and my father’s stories revealed spaces of shared experiences. These stories and experiences, fueled with my interest in Mesoamerican mythology and iconography present themselves in my work. The images explore possibilities by isolating and rearranging iconic components of realities. By retelling my family’s story while at the same time representing them as collective cultural icons I connect the collective experience of past and present generations.