Uvina, Ashley

Hi my name is Ashley Uvina I am a transfer student from Orange County. This is my second year at UCLA, and I am Anthropology major. I am first generation here in the United States and the first to go to college. My mother is from Argentina and father is from Mexico.

Out of the house, the Halo, and the whore’s Mask: 

Women will always be the underrepresented group almost the world. Women even make less than men in the workplace. The feminism in the movement is enlightening; I find joy in the fact that they want change. The way women are viewed in Latino society fits the title of the article perfectly. Going from  virgin, mother, or whore. The fact that Chicana artist use their sexuality in their art shows that they can have power in their own way.

There’s no place like Aztlan: Ebodied Aesthetics in Chicana: 

I found it interesting how De Alba references the wizard of OZ in this piece. The journey to OZ parallels to me the journey Chicanos must make to get to Aztlán.  Also how does the journey to Aztlán 

 Help Chicanos to adapt living the US? This piece made me think of how different areas of comfort come up to people. Aztlán seems fictional but Chicanos find comfort in the idea. Is the idea on home a physical idea someplace you can physically go to or is it some emotional place fixated on memory? In the Wizard of OZ Dorthy kept asking to go home while she was in a strange place. “Home” was her comfort is that  what Aztlán is to Chicanos?