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It began with a conversation.

This story begins with a 30 second conversation between me and my mom. We were talking about her life as an activist, spending so much time working on two very important movements, the Chicano and Feminist movements. I asked her, 'did you all ever get a chance to talk about what you were doing? She said, 'no mija, there wasn't any time for that'. I said, wouldn't it be great if you all could get together and just talk about what life was like for all of you in the Seventies, marching, meeting, protesting, challenging the structure of oppression. She said, 'that would be nice'. And that was how the journey that is this film 'Las Mujeres de la Caucus Chicana' began.

January, 2009

January 24, 2009

2009 and the work

Filed Under (Voces 2009) by lindablog

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 [...]

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January 21, 2009

The New Standard

Filed Under (Voces 2009) by lindablog

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 [...]

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January, 2009

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