This situation esta lleno de depressing crap. It is not fitting for a public, artistic, culturally correct institution to produce and/or to endure. Whoever was responsible for the appointment, need be responsible for a solution. To endure the said verbal and otherwise intimidating abuse is dreadfully demeaning, to say the least. My heartfelt sympathies to all affected by this said monstrous behavior. The very integrity of The Guadalupe is at risk. A rippling affect permeates the atmosphere of not only the Guadalupe, but the very community for whom it had been designed to serve. Ouch! Then, it continues. I don’t want to think more on this right now. My lord, this is appalling.
So some young latinas asked me yesterday about the "Huipiles" at the Museo Alameda. They were confused about the Exhibit. The photo below is by a commercial artist, Liz Garza Williams, one of the artists in the Huipiles Exhibit, and this is her photo of the featured artist, Kathy Sosa, wife of Republican party advertising-mogul Lionel Sosa, who is also in the show. You know what this visual says to young latinas, who comprise the majority population in this region? This photo, indicative of the quality and imagery in this Huipiles exhibit, says "See how I own your past? Do you see how beautiful I am wearing what you don't even know about? You can't even afford your own history, because only a rich woman like me is good enough and beautiful enough to wear it." Now the Museo Alameda has asked latina scholars to contribute to "panels," to discuss "huipiles." There is a documentary that accompanies the show where some huipil-dres...
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