https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/mgonzalez\/entre-mujeres-translocal-musical-dialogues<\/a><\/p>\nMartha Gonzalez
\nPhD Candidate
\nChicana Artivista, Mother c\/s
\nGender, Women and Sexuality Studies Department
\nUniversity of Washington Seattle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My name is Martha Gonzalez and I am a Chicana artivista, singer and songwriter for East LA based Quetzal. I want to invite you all to support a very important project that I have been working on. Entre Mujeres is a translocal music composition project between Chicanas\/Latinas in the U.S. and Jarochas\/Mexican female musicians in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-random-creativity","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":787,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2011\/09\/28\/review-chicana-power-contested-histories-of-feminism-in-the-chicano-movement\/","url_meta":{"origin":1008,"position":0},"title":"REVIEW: Chicana Power! 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<\/a> tool. Without question a song is also an important historical text. A person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s testimonio (testimony), life views, triumphs, and struggles can be expressed into song lyrics. In the end a song, like a testimonio is what stands as moment lived. Multiplied by community this can be an active exercise in consensus and knowledge production. As a collaborator in various songwriting moments I have witnessed time and again how this method and process creates space, builds community, challenges multiple patriarchal systems, and can potentially produce knowledge that is accessible.<\/p>\n