MdM in Academia

Mujeres de Maiz has always seen academia as an important space for our work. We have been a part of higher learning as students, professors, performers and presenters over the las 24 years. This page will share information about our upcoming academic presentations, our academic roles as well as our academic projects.

Mujeres de Maiz Academic Presentations

at NACCS 2021

Thurs. 4/15: 2:20-3:30pm PST

Mujeres de Maiz: Reflexiones en Tiempos de COVID y Revolución 

Join us for our roundtable presentation at the National Chicana Chicano Studies conference.

WATCH & PARTICIPATE via our Zoom Link HERE

Info/Abstract:

The roundtable participants will discuss the ways Mujeres de Maiz has adapted our creative, activist, healing work following the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic and the uprisings for racial and economic justice.

Due to our current climate, we had to get creative and reimagine the ways we utilize our online platforms to provide community programming and to express solidarity with current social movements including Black Lives Matter and immigration reform in Los Angeles and beyond.

Through Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, and Zoom, we have highlighted and elevated artists and activists, hosted mujeres mercados and self-care workshops, facilitated full moon circulos, and hosted informational chats about contemporary issues.

Going remote has also allowed us to reactivate our work on the Mujeres de Maiz anthology and continue the critical editorial labor to bring the project to fruition. When social distancing has made us feel the most distant, our goal is to create online community support systems and digital networks of care. Through this roundtable, we are eager to share our practices and also facilitate an interactive exchange with our audience about the different ways they have adapted through these difficult times.

Mujeres de Maiz Educators

— we are educators, professors, lecturers and guest speakers/performers. Below is a list of where we teach.

Mujeres de Maiz Research

Here is a list of some our Mujeres de Maiz research including our thesis and dissertations and other articles on/by Mujeres de Maiz.

• Dr Amber Rose Gonzales - Dissertation on Mujeres de Maiz (focusing on Zine & audience)

• Nadia Zepeda- Dissertation in progress focusing on Healing Justice Groups including Mujeres de Maiz and our Full moon Circles

• Felicia Montes - Master of Arts Thesis on the group Mujeres de Maiz

• Felicia Montes - Masters of Fine Arts Thesis on her own art work.

• Megan Pennings - Master of Arts thesis on Mujeres de Maiz social media work and pages.

• Gina Aparicio - Master of Fine Art thesis on her own art work (ceramics).

• Claudia Mercado - Master of Fine Art thesis video on Mujeres de Maiz

• Marisol Lydia Torres - Master of Fine Art thesis writing / theater work of her own creation/writing

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