The impact of technology gave the work of Salvadoran American and Mission-born and raised multi-media artist Veronica Majano new opportunities to showcase her communities in lots of ways, like for example in the photography exhibit “The Q-Sides” she takes photographs of queer Latinx/Chicanx next to a classic lowrider car. She reverses the genders on the photograph exhibit “The Q-Sides” she has queer Latinx/Chicanx females doing men poses and has male queers posing as females like they did back when the lowrider culture was really popular in the Chicanx culture but also showcasing and representing the Chicanx/Latinx LGBT community. One of the most interesting aspects of the photography exhibit “The Q-Sides” was how Veronica Majano brought back
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Most of the streets of San Francisco were packed with nice looking lowriders which mostly cruised on Mission Street. Mission Street was filled with a lot of young Latinx/Chicanx that came together, rode along each other and listen to soul music. With the lowrider culture, Chicanx/Latinx had a way to express their culture through the art of lowriding and also a way for Latinx/Chicanx youth to claim their space on Mission Street with the creation of La Raza Park but soon Latinx/Chicanx youth in the lowrider culture had a big problem. They became threatened and harassed by the police with anti-cruising laws that encourage that kind of behavior even more. The whole documentary goes around interviewing Latinx/Chicanx who participated in the lowrider culture and tell their story of how the whole community got organized and resisted to the laws that the San Francisco City Hall imposed for the right to public space, which inspired the founding La Raza, park and a new generation of community …show more content…
that overlap based on discrimination and oppression. An intersectional perspective is important for Latinx/Chicanx communities of color because it brings a lot of the communities out of the shadows. For example, in the LGBT community, it is mostly Anglo American cisgender males and females who are usually fighting for rights, but someone who is of color and transgender doesn’t get represented. It’s important especially for Latinx/Chicanx communities, since there’s many people who need the support and the representation in their communities. For example in the documentary “Which Way Home” the children have to deal with intersectionality, for example Kevin, the fourteen year old Honduran kid has to deal with his age, class, language, and ethnicity while crossing Mexico to get to the United States. In the film we can see they are multiple children like Kevin trying to reach the United States for a better life and a better way to support their families back home. When he finally reaches the United States, he is put into a shelter, where he feels like he’s in jail, children like Kevin who are of color, Spanish speakers and undocumented face a lot of trouble in the US specially if they are underage to work. The symbolism of the La Bestia was really interesting to me. The scene starts with El Perro talking about the immigrants that travel on top of La Bestia and how a lot of people get
Most of the streets of San Francisco were packed with nice looking lowriders which mostly cruised on Mission Street. Mission Street was filled with a lot of young Latinx/Chicanx that came together, rode along each other and listen to soul music. With the lowrider culture, Chicanx/Latinx had a way to express their culture through the art of lowriding and also a way for Latinx/Chicanx youth to claim their space on Mission Street with the creation of La Raza Park but soon Latinx/Chicanx youth in the lowrider culture had a big problem. They became threatened and harassed by the police with anti-cruising laws that encourage that kind of behavior even more. The whole documentary goes around interviewing Latinx/Chicanx who participated in the lowrider culture and tell their story of how the whole community got organized and resisted to the laws that the San Francisco City Hall imposed for the right to public space, which inspired the founding La Raza, park and a new generation of community …show more content…
that overlap based on discrimination and oppression. An intersectional perspective is important for Latinx/Chicanx communities of color because it brings a lot of the communities out of the shadows. For example, in the LGBT community, it is mostly Anglo American cisgender males and females who are usually fighting for rights, but someone who is of color and transgender doesn’t get represented. It’s important especially for Latinx/Chicanx communities, since there’s many people who need the support and the representation in their communities. For example in the documentary “Which Way Home” the children have to deal with intersectionality, for example Kevin, the fourteen year old Honduran kid has to deal with his age, class, language, and ethnicity while crossing Mexico to get to the United States. In the film we can see they are multiple children like Kevin trying to reach the United States for a better life and a better way to support their families back home. When he finally reaches the United States, he is put into a shelter, where he feels like he’s in jail, children like Kevin who are of color, Spanish speakers and undocumented face a lot of trouble in the US specially if they are underage to work. The symbolism of the La Bestia was really interesting to me. The scene starts with El Perro talking about the immigrants that travel on top of La Bestia and how a lot of people get