Honeyspace’s fourth show was called Portrait of Silvia Elena, a memorial to 17-year-old Silvia Elena Rivera Morales who was killed in 1995 — one of the first victims of the unsolved femicides taking place in Juarez, Mexico over the past 10 years.
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Day 11: Art against femicide (Part I)
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homegirls & handgrenades: BloomBeautiful
for L, my sister who is unwittingly teaching me forgiveness
homegirls & handgrenades: Sunni Patterson
So you tell me
what's the difference
between
two women
in New Orleans
shot point blank
in the back
of the head
and
two women
bombed
in their car
in Baghdad
homegirls & handgrenades: Comandante Ramona
When Mexico's balaclava-clad Subcomandante Marcos launched his Zapatista rebellion in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in January 1994, a tiny woman in gaily embroidered native huipil blouse was often seen alongside him, all but her eyes masked by a pink bandanna. She looked as though she had never used the Vietnam-era rifle that almost dwarfed her, and some say she never did.
homegirls & handgrenades: Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez is one of the most deeply moving and committed poets to emerge from the Black Arts Movement in the late sixties and seventies. A poet, activist, playwright, editor and teacher, Sanchez has significantly influenced African American literature and culture by the urgency of her sustained and powerful voice.
Quote #9: Women’s History Month 2009
“I am here because I shall not give the earth up to non-dreamers...” — Sonia Sanchez, author & poet, homegirls & handgrenades
