From Claudia D. Hernández
This photography and oral history book depicts stories of resilience by artists, activists, writers, and poets from across the United States whose visions may transform communities and inspire young women to lead us into the future. Paperback Edition Available
Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions
Published October, 2017
Paperback, 154 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0692969984
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.
Praise for Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions by Claudia D. Hernández
“Empowerment comes to life in Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions. This book embodies stories of resilience. Intertwining narratives of sacrifice and trauma, these fierce fighters confront their battles through drums, dance, songs, poetry, and art. In telling their stories they rise to celebrate the warriors within.
Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions displays beauty in multiple forms, creating a force to remind us that we are not here just to survive. We are here to revolutionize and triumph.
This anthology is a much-needed intervention in our current era, gathering voices as so many threads into a tapestry—reminding us that the ixoq ajkeem first start with rough seemingly solitary threads to create a new world in the process of gently bringing the pieces together. In bringing these women into dialogue, this work draws out their individual strength and vibrancy to build a new bridge of revolution.”
—Roberta “Rosie” Hurtado
SUNY Oswego
“Women, Mujeres, Ixoq: Revolutionary Visions takes us on a path of discover through text that honors women of color, documenting trajectories of healing through art, photography, and the word. Rooted in our lived experience, the lessons are here for us to take.”
—Jo Reyes-Beitel
Poet
About the Editor
Claudia D. Hernández
Claudia D. Hernández was born and raised in Guatemala. She is a poet, editor, translator, and photographer employed as a bilingual educator in Los Angeles, California. In 2017, she was recognized as an award-winning editor for her anthology/ photography book, Women, Mujeres, Ixoq’: Revolutionary Visions by The International Latino Book Awards. She is the founder of the ongoing project upon which this book is based: Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color.
In 2018 Hernández received the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize for Knitting the Fog. Through a fusion of poetry and narrative essays, in this book Hernández shares the story of her family’s migration from Guatemala to the United States. Knitting the Fog was published by Feminist Press of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2019.