The image I chose from Yolanda Lopez book was the “Virgin at the Crossroads”. I chose this image because it is representing varies things, for one the Virgin’s face is replaced by an adolescent to signify innocence. Not that it’s a young beautiful women but just innocence of a young child. In addition, below they have Alma Lopez that represents our lady. She represents the Chicana who is not scared to take charge. She is dressed sharply and others would refer to her as a Mexican prostitute because she isn’t acting like the Virgin. Therefore, this image is proving that just because she is dressed differently does not mean she is not a good women. Lopez represents feminism and in the image she is standing on the snake signifying that she is taking charge of her sexual being and womanhood.
Lopez does a beautiful job at showing that yes the Virgin is such a significant role model for a lot of Chicanos and Mexican like myself, but it takes a different perspective to understand the images. We are used to seeing the Virgin in one specific image that seeing Lopez work it made me feel even a little offended because of the way I was raised in a Catholic traditional household. Therefore, reading the Yolanda Lopez book little by little I started to get the humor and the context behind each image it wasn’t just for laughter there was actual strategy and context behind everything she did. Most of the images that she changed using the Virgin de Guadalupe all were supported by feminism, being able to take charge of your body and sexuality and not be ashamed by what society expects women to be.
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