Author ORCID Identifier
Mariela Méndez:missing image.gif https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0344-7548
Abstract
"We were walking in Old Havana on a hot, umbrella-less, rainy day when someone randomly stopped us to give us a small leaflet of the exhibition opening of Dualidad: Todas las partes de mi ser. at the tattoo parlor La Marca. The opening was delayed because of the rain. Since we were soaked and desperately needed a moment to dry off, we head~d to the exhibition. Little did we know what we were walking into. If our arrival at La Marca on May 18, 2018, was haphazard, Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez's exhibition certainly was not. As a Xicanx queer multimedia artist, educator, and artivist from San Antonio, Texas, Vasquez affirms her long line of curanderas-women healers-in her family. She uses her art installations, murals, and comic illustrations as sites of remembering and healing from ingrained colonial matrices that separate the flesh and the spirit. Her quest to find out more about her African ancestral lineage took her to Havana, a place she felt spiritually connected to without knowing why until she took a DNA test. Our quest took us to Havana to participate in the biannual festival Mayo Teatral, a journey that unexpectedly led us to experience a transnational enfleshed intervention at La Marca, independent from the festival (Facio and Lara 2014, 11)."
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
4-2024
Publisher Statement
Copyright 2024 by Brenda Werth and Katherlne Zien
Recommended Citation
Herrera, Patricia and Méndez, Mariela, "Cuir I Queer Afro-Cuhan and Xicanx Transnational Encounters" (2024). Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications. 189.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lalis-faculty-publications/189
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