The In the Words of Womyn workshop I lead at Tia Chucha’s was invited to prepare poetry pieces that were to be given to various city and state politicians at an upcoming community meeting panel discussion event. After the poems were submitted it was decided, by members of the board of the organization which had [...]

~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. [...]

~Kelly Ochoa Que estas fumando, marijuana? Si comadre, pero estas dias le dicen, “medical marijuana” tu sabes “mota” Mota? As in Manny Mota con Los Dojers? No, as in medical marijuana. What’s so wrong with it? Is it not acceptable but neither was same-sex marriage just up until a few years ago Marijuana is not [...]