Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions - Softcover

Hern�ndez, Claudia D.

9780692969984: Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692969985 ISBN 13: 9780692969984

Publisher: Conocimientos Press LLC, 2017

Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions is the outcome of a photo, video, and oral history project named: Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color, which is organized to share the creativity of women artists whose writing, paintings, and careers carry a theme of social justice. With their words, their art, and their photographs, the aim of this book is to display for the world women whose visions may transform communities and inspire young women to lead us into the future. Regardless of gender and positionality, its intent is to educate and inspire young minds to become the role models we need. Also, to keep in mind that revolutionary women, must nurture young boys to become respectful men who love and treat women as equal human beings. Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions is a reminder that we all have a story of resilience and that every woman is a revolutionary in her own right.

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About the Author:

Claudia D. Hern�ndez was born and raised in Guatemala. She is a mother, photographer, poet, translator, and a bilingual educator residing in Los Angeles. She writes short stories, children’s stories, and poetry in Spanish, English, and sometimes weaves in Poqomchi’, an indigenous language of her Mayan heritage. Hern�ndez holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing for Young People, with an emphasis in poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles. Various online literary journals and anthologies throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico, have published her work. Hern�ndez is the recipient of the Louise Meriwether first Book Prize-2018. She is the founder of the ongoing project: Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color. www.todaysrevolutionarywomenofcolor

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