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 [...]

The gathering in San Francisco, July 7-9, 2006 could have never happened without the support of my family, the Mojicas. Las Mujeres were able to reunite after 27 years through the hard work and support demonstrated by my aunt and uncle, their children, grandchildren and significant others.
Camille and Nichole Mojica hosted the working meeting on Saturday, providing [...]

Margaret Cruz is one of the few people you meet in this life that you remember forever. I remember vividly, being scared to death of Margaret when I first met her at 17 in Houston. She spoke to me in this booming voice tailored to traveling across a football field more than the inside of a hotel suite. ‘Young [...]

So being the proactive semi-retired activist mom can be she contact’s Jose Angel Gutierrez, former head of Partido Raza Unida and asks him about a young man that was filming the 1973 Party Convention in El Paso, Texas. Ruth, Lupe and Martha all attended the conference as delegates from the states of Texas, Illinois and [...]

I do remember when I first met Lupe in Houston, 1977. I had heard a lot about her from my mom prior to the IWY convention. They had collaborated on projects since 1972 when Lupe, Ruth, and Martha, were at the ‘Adelante Mujeres’ Women’s Conference sponsored by the Midwest Council of La Raza at Notre [...]

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I met with Lupe at UCLA. I got lost (even with Mapquest) and misjudged the traffic coming from Wesminster so I was late getting to the Chicano Studies Library. Once I found it, I was greeting with a sunny smile ’y un gran abrazo’ from Lupe. She and [...]