From time to time I will write about what is going on with screenings and any new things we are doing at Voces. Being in school has its challenges to the production of new work. We’ve managed to produce one film every 18 to 20 months. That will change. After Palabras, we won’t be producing [...]

I remember as a four year old child, being with my Abuelita in the backyard of her home on the west side of Chicago tending to her beautiful garden. She would snip and trim stems from her perpetually overgrowing and full rosebushes while I would hold the basket filled with the discarded stems. As she [...]

On December 7th I received the right hand of fellowship at Trinity UCC in Chicago. It’s been a while in coming and the true irony is that a couple of things happened this last year that pointed me towards Trinity. During all the time that Reverend Wright and this very amazing church have been [...]

So i’ve been gone so long because I’ve started an MFA program at Columbia College Chicago in Film and Video. Each year the school takes 10-12 students and after three years and a number of short films both in the areas of narrative fiction and documentary, creates storytellers in filmmaking, ready to begin their thesis [...]

El Paso went really well. The center, or Centro Salud Familiar La Fe’ where we had the screening is not just a health center, it is a campus. The organization was started 40 years ago by a group of women from the barrio that were filling a need for health care in their neighborhood where [...]

HOOVER LEPPEN Theatre, at the Center on Halsted. 3656 North Halsted, Chicago Illinois  6-8pm.
Sponsored by Amigas Latinas, Mujeres Latinas en Acción, Columbia College Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media and the Center on Halsted (Sponsor List In Formation).

Roundtable Discussion: Chicana Foundations, Generations, Transformations: a Mother-Daughter Dialogue 
Multigenerational Roundtable Discussion featuring Chicana activists and their daughters. The long and short of which we all discovered, was that we daughters survived the years and struggles of our activist mother’s lives. We not only survived, we seemed to be thriving, finding our own way down our [...]

I always knew Margaret was very ill but not because she would ever talk about it. Any time that you ever got to spend with her made all conversations about her her condition hard to believe. She had a tremendous will to live each day to a full and usually exhausting end.  She was the most [...]

Many of these women have agreed to be profiled as una voz primera. I will be adding to this list as I meet mujeres primeras. 
Virginia Martinez: First Chicana to pass the bar in the State of Illinois
Maria Mangual: Founder of Mujeres Latinas en Accion
Evette Cardona: Founding member, Amigas Latinas 
Juanita ‘Jane’ Gonzales (deceased),Muskegon Heights, Michigan: First Latina elected to [...]

It was a simple accident. I was cleaning up photographs and had finished a large batch when the phone rang. I spun around in my chair and got caught in the USB cable connected to the portable hard drivethat housed all the scans of photographs and documents of Las Mujeres. As the hard drive fell to [...]