Writing
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Book Review: “Bodymap” and “Dirty River” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
By Andrea Gutierrez » Originally published in make/shift (Summer/Fall 2016, no. 19) Bodymap: Poems (Mawenzi House) Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (Arsenal Pulp) by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha A writing teacher once told me that as a writer, I needed to understand my relationship to the body: my body, a body,…
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Deer, Unleashed: An Interview with Bamby Salcedo
By Andrea GutierrezPhoto by Giuliana Maresca » Originally published in make/shift (Winter 2015/2016, no. 18) Bamby Salcedo is not afraid of her power. The first time I crossed paths with the trans Latina activist was this past March in Los Angeles at the annual live art show and fundraiser hosted by Mujeres de Maiz, an art and activist…
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Book Review: “Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories” by Hilary Klein
By Andrea Gutierrez » Originally published in make/shift (Summer/Fall 2015, no. 17) Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories By Hilary Klein Seven Stories Press It’s after midnight when I take a break from reading Hilary Klein’s Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories to bellow into the zeros and ones of social media. “GODDAMMIT THIS LAPD COPTER HAS BEEN CIRCLING FOR TWO…
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Girls Stepping into Their Power: An Interview with Co-Founder of Radical Monarchs
By Andrea Gutierrez » Originally published in make/shift (Summer/Fall 2015, no. 17) In 2014, Anayvette Martinez’s daughter, a fifth-grader, begged to join a girls group like the Girl Scouts. Martinez, a Bay Area activist and community organizer, was dissatisfied with the options available near her East Oakland home and co-founded the Radical Brownies with her friend and…
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My First Zit
By Andrea Gutierrez » Originally published in Mujeres de Maiz zine (2015, out of print) I don’t know if she sees it first Or if I have the bad judgment to show her But Mom lays my head back in her lap On the sofa while we watch General Hospital It’s probably one of those whiteheads The…