Chicana Futurism is a term I have never heard of before. However, when I first saw the term in “Deus ex Machina” by Catherine S. Ramirez I was confused because she defines it as reproducing Chicanx culture and identity. I’m not sure what she means by reproducing Chicanx culture, but in my opinion Chicana Futurism is a way to bring about Chicanx culture. It is also a way to transform Chicana culture and take in the past histories and reproduce it according to the past histories. Chicana Futurism is also another way of being inclusive of all gender sexualities in a way because if we are to take the past histories into consideration then this term is a way of being inclusive of sexuality, identity and culture. Moreso, she defines the term as the “Chicano cultural production that attends to cultural transformation resulting from new and everyday technologies… that excavates, creates, and alters narratives of identity, technology and the future; that interrogates the promises of science and technology and the refines humanism and the human” (Ramierez 157). Martinzes, in her definition, brings in the idea of technology as a way to redefine Chicana as an identity and the use of technology is a way that shapes Chicana identity because artists such as painters, use technology and the media to get their work out there in the world. Although Ramierez gives a clear definition of the term itself, I am still a bit confused because the term seems to circulate around technology, culture and identity.
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