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Felicia 'Fe' Montes

Xicana Multimedia Artist/Educator/Femcee/Organizer

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7 GENERACIONES My mom posted this today and reminded me that we come from a long line of Xingonas. On the red road, I’ve connected with the understanding of 7 generations but it hits different when it’s your femme family. . Great great great grandmother Josefa, Great great grandmother Vicenta (Chenta), Great grandmother Sara, Grandmother Bedelia, my mom Olivia, me, and my twin nieces Irasema & Xiomara.

FIERCE FULLNESS This photo is a beautiful memory of gathering 100 womxn to share in circle on the full moon. This photo is probably from 5 years ago as various Womxns circles and generations of womxn came together to honor themselves and community. Our Full Moon Coyolxauhqui Circle has gathered for 9 years. We have gestated many sistars prayers and palabra. . Photos like these are rare. They capture a sistarhood and prophecy manifested that I have been hearing about since the year 2000. That this is a time where the womxn will lead. I have felt, lived, loved, prayed that since 2000 and have seen it womxnifest every year since. Yes, many are weary, scared, not ready to lead— but it seems even more so the men are more weary, scared and not ready for it to happen. Since @mujeresdemaiz and many of our sistar friends have been taking their rightful power there has been some pushback about who is doing it, how, why and questions or even smirks about the moon or full moon and the work so many of us have cultivated & reconnected with so that our families may heal. To this I say... you betta’ recognize. Ceremonies are on a cosmological clock. We often gather under sun during the full moon. The moon has effects on us as womxn and all of us. . Today and this time of the full moon and lunar eclipse they say is somewhat of a transitional time -we most def know it is here on earth. But also one that we will be feeling & letting go via emotions and otherwise. . . This energy started working with me since my solar return on 11/29/2019 and even months before. Boundaries being set, people falling off or being cut off... as well as abundant blessings and reminders coming my way. This week I had renacimientos of me as a spirit sistar and my roles and responsibilities It is our destiny and birthright - so we will continue to create, love, heal, sing and more! . . Today at the time of the full moon and lunar eclipse I burned copal and felt called to clean and reorganize my altar space..adjusting what is not and also calling in what is for me. Tomorrow I say goodbye to my tia. This year I say HI FELICIA! 📷: by GloTography #sistarhood #tenfe #fullmoon #fullmooncircle

2020 VISIONING w/ @mujeresdemaiz It will be 23 years this March. Check out an excerpt from an article in @lagentenewsmag from 2011. . . “Born of my mother’s corn.I am a movimiento seed of resistance A red-diaper baby Chicana feminist since birth but I never dreamed casually in the city of Lost Angels ‘Cuz I was ready from the first day I saw the sun” –Felicia Montes In 1997, Felicia Montes, studying world arts and cultures and Chicana/o studies at UCLA, wanted women artists to come together at a time where a powerful Chicana/o movement was happening in Northeast Highland Park. This led Montes to ask her professor to allow to her organize an event instead of writing a final paper. Only planned for one night, this event blossomed over 14 years into an organization of called Mujeres de Maiz (MdM). “I was trying to make [my education] relevant [by] not just writing a paper but trying to do something,” said co-founder Felicia Montes. The event was organized around International Women’s Day, where a local poetry collective band, In Lak Ech, decided to get together with anyone interested in sharing their work and poetry. “We were only supposed to perform once…but people kept asking. They had never seen the presence of women on stage [like that],” said Montes. Just as corn is grown all around the world, mujeres of any color ranging from the lands South America, Africa, and the Philippines come together to “network and organize around global, social, and political issues,” as stated on their website. A multimedia women’s art collective, MdM gives space for female artists who want to express themselves politically and spiritually through art, no matter their level of training. Corn is peeled to expose its inner core in the same way that these women use their art. They find healing when expressing their inner thoughts and activist ideas to others while creating awareness of transnational issues. MdM holds spoken word and cultural music performances, and showcases sculptures and paintings. They actively participate in events that support and celebrate women as well as helping to build different collaboratives. Another outlet to contribute to women’s empowerment..."

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