Sym·bi·o·sis.  noun \ˌsim-bē-ˈō-səs,\: a cooperative relationship; an intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms. In the Words of Womyn = body of womyn writers.  Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural = transformative arts space & community center.  ITWOW + Tia Chucha’s = symbiosis.  ITWOW began with an experience…a resounding void of womyn voices on the [...]

~Jessie Dawson Wilson  Where there’re no shoes for tiny feet, My heart cries out; Where there’s no bread for a child to eat, My heart cries out; Where there’s no roof over an old man’s head, My heart cries out; Where Mother Earth is the only bed, My heart cries out; Where there’re no garments [...]

~Matriz asked to voice our knots, display our tangles present them in beauty, fit for the public a contradiction, a delicate artful challenge thus this attempt, holding close the interest of we bombarded by so much sensation, news of abuse shooters erupt, thirst blazing, wrinkled with fears uterus empty of mothering, broken warrior gone wild [...]

~Jenuine In every community there spans a chasm wide between the haves, and the have nots: those who have Hope.  and those who have not while some would argue that we are defined by those who have money and those who have not I tell you this: I have been stripped of all I own [...]

~Rosalilia Mendoza The sun always rises on the east and sets on the west Yet it is rare that we follow the truth but it’s there… In our surroundings our community our people… Enough is enough With the two-faced politics… We don’t need a solution What we need is a revolution Teachers were meant to [...]

~Leslie We pray. No more raping of the earth. Feel the wind as it sweeps across the sand. Hear the ocean’s roar Taste it’s salt. See the mountains Silent and dignified Stretching into the sky. We pray. No more raping of the children. Let them bite into a fruit Race barefoot into the summer’s night. [...]