@fotoslasirena.bsky.socialTEDDY SANDOVAL, a queer Chicano artist in the late 1900s, challenged ideas of masculinity, sexuality in the Chicano community. His work was transgressive and existed out of institutional acceptance, instead he created his own institutions & community. #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist
@princetonupress.bsky.socialIn Republics of Knowledge, Nicola Miller uses an account of nineteenth-century Latin American to argue how these early republics forged their identities through creating and circulating knowledge.
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@sexworkhistorian.bsky.social@sexworkhistorian.bsky.social(1/4) Thread on medicine for #LatinXHeritageMonth:
@teawitch.bsky.socialCame home from work to find my partner cooking enchilada soup and Selena blasting on the radio. Happy #LatinxHeritageMonth to me! 🙌🤤💃
@rossanadantonio.bsky.socialWhat better way to celebrate #LatinxHeritageMonth than with a Gold Medal from the #InternationalLatinoBookAwards! 🏅
Our voices matter. Our stories matter. And today, more than ever, they must echo loud and far. ❤️📚✨ #26Seconds
@sexworkhistorian.bsky.social(1/3) Short thread on LatinX architecture for #LatinXHeritageMonth:
@fotoslasirena.bsky.socialRound up of Days 15-21 posts for #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist … visit earlier posts if you missed any of the posts about these awesome #Latine artists!
@fotoslasirena.bsky.socialGLENDALYS MEDINA, a diasporic Nuyorican, an artist who uses concepts - like pattern recognition - to break down systems, reconstruct & recontextualize them to find new meanings, new symbols. Identity, knowledge, memory are frequent targets. Day 21 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist
@princetonupress.bsky.socialDrawing on multisited ethnographic research, explore how Cubans have found inventive ways to work around technological barriers such as high costs & inadequate infrastructure with Steffen Köhn’s Island in the Net.
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@fotoslasirena.bsky.socialYOLANDA GONZÁLEZ, Chicana, brings her culture & identity into her artwork, boldly, uncompromising, full of emotion and desire for connection. Although these are all paintings shown here, she works across disciplines. Day 20 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist
@fotoslasirena.bsky.socialFLORA SALDIVAR is a Mexican-American painter based in NW Arkansas. She uses a pouring method on raw canvas to produce large scale abstracts that are spontaneous & echo and remember her multilayered identity & past. Day 19 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist
@fotoslasirena.bsky.socialGLEO aka NATALIA GALLEGO is a street artist from Cali, Colombia. Known for large murals, her art features folklore, women, inner worlds made tangible, revealing her vision of the world. You can find her work on bldgs around the world. Day 18 of #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist
@fotoslasirena.bsky.socialSONIA ROMERO, Chicana, born & based in Echo Park, Los Angeles, is an artist whose work reflects her culture & a desire for healing. Her work includes printmaking, painting, murals/public art, tiles…, pushes the boundaries of any one discipline. #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist
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@beaconpress.bsky.socialSalvadoran women are said to be “arrechas y aguantadoras” (capable, resilient) and it is said with a level of pride, but there is also a layer of tragedy. @alexlregalado.bsky.social explores this in verse in RELINQUENDA. #LatinxHeritageMonth buff.ly/nAoTgHQ
@accintouch.bsky.socialThe Hispanic/Latino community in the U.S. faces a high burden of #diabetes & #CVD.
How can we improve outcomes?
⚖️ Ensure access
📢 Promote prevention
🌐 Expand culturally responsive CV care
🔎 https://bit.ly/3VEBKJd
#HispanicHeritageMonth #LatinxHeritageMonth #ACCHealthEquity
@archives.boston.govIn honor of #LatinxHeritageMonth check out these dancers performing the Caporales at a block party in 1996! The Caporales is a traditional Peruvian and Bolivian dance.
Image 1: Mayor Menino with Caporales dancers
Image 2: Caporales dancers performing
Image 3: Caporales dancers performing
@fotoslasirena.bsky.socialZAMARA CUYÚN, of Highland Maya Guatemalan descent, born & based in Minneapolis, explores themes of (Maya) indigeneity, resistance, revitalization, decolonization, the role of women in those efforts. Her public art works are often collaborative. Day 16 #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxContemporaryArtist
@sexworkhistorian.bsky.social(5/5) Mexico relied heavily on rural boarding schools to supplant Native languages and cultures with Spanish, blending Indigenous identities into a "uniform national identity.