Author: torresmv1

Ana Mendieta and her art

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The works by Ana Mendieta especially her three performances before graduating college,  experimenting with physical representation and focusing on issues such as gender and beauty,  and Cuban manifestation of machismo really reminds me of the works by Regina José Galindo.

It is amazing to read that because of the open talk discussion that feminists of this era create, many of the political prisoners back in Cuba are released, including Mendieta’s father.

Mestizos independence from Spanish Colonizers

new laws and rights had been given

to children and women as in paper one might find

till this day reality still lies.

We cannot pretend that paper writes itself

yet in the enforcement of it we must participate.

Hardships as women we must always fight

that even to this day our last’s names we would trade

for some white privilege I must say,

just like Adelina Otero “Warren” did,

this still  happens today.

Every female generation attempts to upgrade,

however the same struggles seem to prevail

let this not be a feeling of fail,

yet a reason to keep working on ourselves

just like Adelina occupied the first congressional seat,

in the next eight years we might find a glimpse of our own selves

in the United States next presidential chair.

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This is what I had in mind while reading Gertrudis Barceló’s story. A Western looking brothel like the ones you watch in movies.

By the time of her dead she was worth twice as high as wealthy Mexican-Spanish men, regardless of  her entrepreneurial skills and hard work she has always been maligned throughout history. At first, I thought she was a single women, and it kinda shocked me that her husband is barely mentioned in all of her legacy.

At some point in the reading they mentioned how “La Tules” was not criticized for gambling as much as for profiting from her business’s what interested me the most is that  these critics did come from men, but from from women who thought this was not woman’s proper behavior.

In my book Gertrudis Barceló shall remain as one of the first female entrepreneurs.