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Resistencia Bookstore
casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St.
Austin, Texas
(512) 416-8885
revolu@swbell.net
Nov 25th, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
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Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas 09 Item No. 3
“With its nameless protagonists, unusual punctuation, poetic breaks, and graphic depictions of genocide and antigay violence, Glave’s The Torturer’s Wife is about as far as you’ll get from a breezy beach read. Nonetheless, the Lambda Literary Award winner’s experimental short story collection—which tackles war, slavery, turbulent gay relationships, and HIV—contained some of 2009’s most compelling moments in queer literature. Glave (left) is only the second gay African American (after James Baldwin) to win the O. Henry Prize for short fiction.”—Out 100
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Join AF3IRM/GABNet Riverside in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence! For more info, please email: gabrielanetworkriverside@gmail.com
Reblogged from 16 Days of AFFIRMation.
Nov 23rd, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
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Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas 09 Item No. 2
“Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature examines a broad array of texts that have contributed to the formation of an indigenous strand of Chicano cultural politics. In particular, this book exposes the ethnographic and poetic discourses that shaped the aesthetics and stylistics of Chicano nationalism and Chicana feminism. Contreras offers original perspectives on writers ranging from Alurista and Gloria Anzaldúa to Lorna Dee Cervantes and Alma Luz Villanueva, effectively marking the invocation of a Chicano indigeneity whose foundations and formulations can be linked to U.S. and British modernist writing.”
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We Will Always Be Here!
7pm Friday December 4, 2009
CineResistencia presents
a documentary film screening of We Will Always Be Here (Sol Rojo Productions)
with special guest speaker Chicano muralist Raúl Valdez
This historic documentary captures the destruction of the Los Elementos mural and the Juárez-Lincoln building,
and the resistance to stop its destruction.
Juárez-Lincoln University, 715 East First Street, was founded in 1971 in Austin, Texas, as a Mexican American/Chicana/o center of higher education. It was a direct out growth of the wider Chicano/a movement for civil rights, self-determination, & ethnic pride that took root & grew from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Juárez-Lincoln was closed in 1979, when Antioch University withdrew its support. However, the Juárez-Lincoln building continued to be used by local groups, including the League of United Chicano Artists and Mujeres Artistas del Suroeste. The building with its mural by Raúl Valdez became a symbol for East Austin residents. When real estate developers announced in 1980 that the building would be demolished to make way for an office building (now an IHOP), neighborhood groups took the battle to court, hoping to turn the building into a neighborhood center. After litigation the building was demolished in 1983.
“Always considering it the property of the Austin community and that idea was reinforced when it was destroyed in 1984. There were large protests held with people attempting to stand in the way of the wrecking ball and I’ll never forget one woman left her car in the middle of traffic and ran to the crane operator, passionately telling him ‘you can’t do this, you can’t destroy this mural ’ “
—Raúl Valdez quoted from his website
2pm - 5pm Saturday December 5, 2009
Memoir Writing Workshop
with ANA CASTILLO
Internationally Acclaimed Poet and Award Winning Author
In cooperation with Resistencia Bookstore
**There is still room for a few more participants in the workshop - please sign up asap!**
In memoir, the reader must be persuaded that the narrator is writing honestly, whether or not he/she is, is secondary. It doesn’t matter as much ‘what happened’ as what you make of what you remember may have happened. The workshop will consist of exercises, which help us to know how to get started when desiring to work on a memoir essay. We’ll talk, we’ll laugh, we’ll cry. We’ll vent. We’ll write from our hearts and our minds. And then, we’ll learn to get rid of all the sentimentality and leave on the page what is important for the reader to know about your memoir. Three hours with Ana Castillo, poet, novelist all around genre-jumper.
Persons interested must submit 1 pg writing sample to apply. 18 yrs. and up.
Ana Castillo will be available only at the workshop.
All queries and to apply: email: anacastilloworkshops@gmail.com
Cost: $175 per person/Limit only 15 per workshop ($125 for unemployed, seniors, and undergrads)
*credit cards are accepted IN ADVANCE REGISTRATION ONLY!*
Application Deadline: November 12, 2009 Deposit Received No later than: November 20, 2009 **************************************************************************************
ON THAT SAME DAY, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009 …
A public reading & signing by Ana Castillo
7:30pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Resistencia Bookstore
1801 – A South First Street, Austin, TX 78704
Nov 20th, 2009 @ 11:01 am
Resistencia Bookstore Featured X-mas 09 Item No. 1
“SISTER OUTSIDER presents essential writings of black poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, an influential voice in 20th century literature. In this varied collection of essays, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, offering a message of struggle but also of hope—one that still resonates with us after more than 20 years. ”
Nov 19th, 2009 @ 2:35 pm
Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio, Resistencia Bookstore, October 2009 (photos courtesy of S. Campos and C. Thelen)
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