FabLab Playshop: Gloria Anzaldúa
In this playshop, actor and writer Tina D’Elia (she/her) will introduce us to Gloria Anzaldúa through a performative talk leading into an inspiring series of creative prompts. D’Elia will engage playshop participants through writing and theater exercises that will deepen our exploration of Gloria Alzaldúa’s work. No Experience Necessary. Open to non-artists as well as artists of all mediums.
Come experience the essence of queer ancestor Gloria E. Anzaldúa through performative storytelling and creative writing prompts. A Chicana- Tejana- Lesbian, feminist poet, activist, theorist and fiction writer, Anzaldúa encapsulates the experience of living under a multitude of identities that often intersect with each other while integrating her experiences of social and cultural marginalization into her work. Join us in welcoming her spirit into our creative lives!
January 13th, 6pm-8pm pst, online only. Registration from $5-$50.
We are excited to welcome a new community sponsor for this playshop, Aunt Lute Books! You can order the critical edition of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands with discount code FABLAB22 at the following link!
Aunt Lute Books is an intersectional, feminist press dedicated to publishing literature by those who have been traditionally underrepresented in or excluded by the literary canon. Since 1982 we have published a number of well-known feminist authors, including Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, Judy Grahn, LeAnne Howe, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker. Aunt Lute titles include the first U.S. collection of Filipina/Filipina American women writers (Babaylan), the first collection of Southeast Asian women writers (Our Feet Walk the Sky), as well as a number of translated texts (most recently Rosa Montero’s Beautiful and Dark). Our bestsellers include Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and The Cancer Journals: Special Edition, titles used in classrooms throughout the U.S. and around the world. Core to Aunt Lute’s mission is the belief that the written word is critical to understanding and relating to each other as humans. Through the sharing of stories, we strengthen ties across cultures and experiences, and at the same time honor the hurt, loss, and harm incurred through structural power imbalances, prejudiced and gendered systems, and ancestral trauma. We uplift these voices in order to build a more just future.