Feminists from across the greater Los Angeles area gathered at Ms. HQ Wednesday for the inaugural meeting of the Ms. Book Club, joining author and activist Cherríe Moraga for a night of cocktails and conversation about her memoir “Native Country of the Heart.”
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Cherríe Moraga’s New World Order
Who needs Juan Preciado or Pedro Páramo when there is Elvira Isabel Moraga and her daughter? As Cherríe Moraga demonstrates compellingly in her new memoir, “Native Country of the Heart,” they are the stuff of literature, too.
7 Chicana Feminist Authors You Should Be Reading
I am a woman of color. If you are too, you probably understand my frustration when I say it was nearly impossible to find role models in the mainstream media as […]
New Fire From Cherríe Moraga
Feminist icon Cherríe Moraga’s play New Fire is a “ceremonial performance”–an intricate interweaving of documentary video and live performance, of fact and factual fiction, of real ceremony and the performance of myth.
Top 100 Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown: 30-21
Many of books 21 to 30 were famous for challenging the status quo–whether that be male supremacy in general or privilege within the feminist movement. In this section you’ll find […]
Queer History Month: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa
No discussion of Queer History Month would be complete without paying homage to the woman whose multi-disciplinary approach to queer theory, Chicano/a studies, gender, cultural theory, spirituality and aesthetics transformed the feminist […]