Cervantes, Melanie

The artist that I will be doing my presentation on is Melanie Cervantes who primarily works on printmaking. 

I found Alicia Gaspar de Aba’s article to be a great example of how spaces have to include the voices of many struggles and not just the dominant voices. It was very off-putting that out of all the pieces in the CARA exhibition, only a few of the pieces were created by women. It is not a matter of there not being enough Chicana artists, or Trans Chicanx artists, or queer Chicanx artists but it’s a matter of these artists not being visible to dominant society especially since they challenge dominant values.  This article touched upon issues that are present in the Chicano movement ( which Alicia Gaspar de Alba mentioned is accurate due to its patriarchal views) and the women's liberation movement. Both of these movements weren’t viewing the issues from an intersectional framework, excluding Chicana women from both. Which is why Third World Feminism is very critical because it encompasses the stories of many women of color who are working towards the liberation of women by using both racial issues, gender issues as well as other critical frameworks. I found this article really interesting because of the perspective in which the CARA exhibit was written. 

One question I have is: What was CARA's reaction to this article?