While searching for scholarship I came across an article titled “Femzines, Artivism and Altar Aesthetics: Third Wave Feminism Chicana Style,” where Norell Martinez discusses Chicana feminist grassroots zines. The zine in particular that Martinez focuses on is titled “Flor y Canto” which has been published underground since 1997. This zine focuses on Chicana art and poetry and Martinez highlights in the article how this third wave poetry and art that is published in the zines is also a part of artivism and a form of healing. I really like the argument that Martinez is making, and I tried searching from some digitized files of these zines and could not find anyone online.
What I like about this article is that like much of what I am looking at so far and have explored in this blog is how people create spaces for artivism as a way to share their art. The example of this zine “Flor y Canto” is just one more example of this. It is great to see how people use artivism and what it means to them. I enjoyed reading this article and I am getting really excited about looking into this further and seeing what other kind of scholarship I can find.
Martínez, N. (2018). Femzines, Artivism, and Altar Aesthetics: Third Wave Feminism Chicana Style. Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures 2(2), 45-67. Indiana University Press. Retrieved March 19, 2019, from Project MUSE database.
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