Week 2 Blog Response

Throughout the readings, the importance of voice and representation for marginalized parties was apparent. Art-making practices are vital in helping express messages and examine social issues in a more accessible way. As described in Alice Bag's Violence Girl.., Bag's minority status only became concrete to her through seeing Chicanos in action, "One was that I had never before realized that I was part of a minority group, and I felt good about being part of something as powerful as the Chicano Movement. (Bag pg2)."  Bag's newfound identity association led her to later create "White Justice," an artistic piece musical and visual piece that calls attention to not only the 1970 day of protest turned violent that she experienced, it called attention to the atrocities that were being committed other groups of color: at "3:12" shows Eric Garner's chokehold and police brutality. In Blackwell, Maylei.  Chicana Power, the only way that the Chicana gained a voice and stood up to first the white institutional racism and then sexism within their own groups was through banding together and showcasing their own representation, "the goal of the hijas is to involve women in the struggle of her people by identifying and dealing with the problems of La Chicana" (87). I found the first steps of creating representation and a voice for their social issues to be a uniformly vital and brave action.