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Mujeres de Maiz (womxn of the corn) provides holistic wellness through education, programming, exhibitions, and publishing in order to empower women and girls through the creation of community.

 
 
 
 

Featured Workshops

ARTIVISM IN ACTION:

EDUCATE, EMPOWER, TRANSFORM

A presentation on how Artivism (art and activism) can educate, empower, inspire and transform people and communities. 

SELF AND COMMUNITY CARE

A skill-share on discussing and sharing tools for beginning self care and protection. Tools shared benefit all but are specifically supportive of activists and cultural workers.

DECOLONIZING AND DECENTRALIZING HEALING WAYS: ANCESTRAL AND ABUELITA KNOWLEDGE FOR TODAY

This workshop will focus on deconstructing the structures and institutions that are barriers to health and wellness in our communities as well as seeking alternative wellness methods including herbalism and other ways of knowing and healing.

 

THE POWER OF POETRY

A creative writing workshop for all. Share your stories, validate your voices, honor you his/herstories.  Writing is way to do all of this.

THE POWER OF POSTERS:

SILKSCREENING AND SELF DETERMINATION

This hands on workshop shares the ancient technique of silkscreening. Posters have been used for centuries to share messages and make statements.

CULTURA CURA CIRCLES: CULTURALLY BASED HOLISTIC TALKING CIRCLES FOR OURSELVES AND OUR COMMUNITY

Based on indigenous and ancestral ways of relating with each other, these circles allow groups and individuals to open up to each other and to the sacred within us all. 

 
 
 
 
 

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MONDAY MORNING MUSINGS Repost By @chicanamomspodcast: Good morning!!♥️
LLANTO COLECTIVO - Day 2 at the Otay Mesa Detention center and then a la playa to cleanse from a weekend full of strong prayers and cries of justicia and dolor. @las_maestras_center and the vision of #cherriemoraga #celiaherrerarodriguez brought together dozens of womxn and relatives from across the country to come together and call for the end of migrants in detention and abolish ICE. #lasmaestrascenter #elllantocolectivo thanks to @chicanachingona & @feevaone for photos and to all the xinngonas representing and holding down prayers and performance protest.
LLANTO COLLECTIVO a call by @las_maestras_center of Cherrie Moraga and Celia Herrera Rodriguez calling together teatristas, performance artists, spirit sistars, sahumadoras and Artivistas from across the nation to heed the call and share in performance prayer protest for El otro Grito this weekend in occupied San Diego Kumeyiaa land. It’s just the first day after a full day of rehearsals and spirit sistar boot camp and these are some@of the amazing sistars and images taken by @chicanachingona @feevaone and Angelica Rodriguez. Join us tomorrow for th next Llanto outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center. More info in our last post. Thanks to all who have participated and envisioned and organized this! #llantocollectivo #ellantocollectio #lasmaestrascenter #elgrito
LLANTO COLLECTIVO - SAN DIEGO THIS WEEKEND. We are honored to be a part of this this weekend. Repost By @las_maestras_center: Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought & Art Practice of UC Santa Barbara, in solidarity with the Otay Mesa Detention Resistance Committee of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, call upon artists, familias, community members, students, teachers, and activists from the greater Santa Barbara area to San Diego to join us for a public and collective outcry, to protest I.C.E.'s policies and to demand an end to the separation of families and unconscionable treatment of people seeking asylum in the United States at our southern borders. Actions will take place in San Diego on the weekend of September 15 and 16. In México, Guatemala, Honduras and other Latin American countries, masses of indigenous peoples are forced to leave their homelands resulting from, and aggravated by, the history of civil war in Central América, gang violence and drug cartels, and the loss of sustainable lands due to NAFTA and governmental collusion and corruption. When these families reach the U.S. and Mexican border they are met with a militarized police force, incarceration and separation from their loved ones. “Un Llanto Colectivo,” is a ceremonial, theatrical and community-based two-day action, inspired by the original 16t h century story of the iconic Mexican mother -- “La Llorona. “The Weeping Woman” cries out in mourning, anticipating the loss of México’s children to the Spanish invasion. She is not the evil figure that Spanish-America has conjured. Instead, she laments, “My children, where can we go? My children, where will I take you?” Today, history repeats itself as indigenous families from México and Central America are being separated from their children by state-sanctioned violence in the North and the South. In the spirit of La Llorona then, we, too, cry out in protest and invite you to join us, along with: Pueblo sin Fronteras; The National Domestic Workers Alliance; The American Friends Service Committee; Chicano/a Studies of San Diego State University; and, Global Latinidades, the Hull Center in Women and Social Justice, The Hemispheric South
💯 Repost By @corazon_copal: ✨ NOT EVERYONE IS DESERVING OF YOUR ENERGY! Be cautious about who you have in your inner circle. Vibes are everything; if you want to grow, be picky! ✨
WOMXN WARRIOR WEDNESDAY honors Serena Williams @serenawilliams Repost By @oir_con_ojos: “The world owes you an apology Not just the umpire Not just the French Open Not just racists who ask if you feel intimidated by Sharapova’s basic looks Or being drug tested more than The basic looking actual drug user The nurses and doctors who ignored Your knowledge Of your own body Almost causing your death Every time they questioned your Femininity Ability Strength Integrity Victory They did so because of your skin Asian parents who mold their children are Tiger mothers White parents who risk everything Turn sex tapes into millions Are momagers But your father who made legends out of Compton Concrete Shaping you and your sister Like Michelangelo chiseled David He is loud Obnoxious Insane The world owes you an apology But we know it will never come Because first they would have to acknowledge The hatred The racism It isn’t your black panther suit Your beauty Your millions You venting to a umpire A broken racket Or a demand of proper medical care It’s your blackness that offends Your power when you should be powerless Your confidence When you should always grovel Always remind yourself That you should thank them for allowing you To be on the courts at all As if a Queen tells the jester thank you for her Throne You are the living breathing embodiment of #blackgirlmagic The dream of our ancestors The power of our foremothers The strength that the Middle passage Slavery Jim Crow and America Could not break Your are more than the GOAT You are goddess Fearless More than tennis You are a living black legend And they hate you for it” –by @leslehonore 🙌🏽💛🙏🏽 via @sereenaabbassi ・・・
TAKE WHAT YOU NEED Repost By @stay_sucka_free_sis: A little of each for me please! • • • • follow @stay_sucka_free_sis follow https://www.facebook.com/staysuckafreesis/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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