This sculpture collage discusses the lasting effects of colonization, and how we continue to be taught about the Catholic saints that the colonizers used (and continue to use) to control brown and black people, but never learn about the indigenous warriors that fought & fight for the land and the people. How indigenous practices were made illegal, and are still demonized. How conversion to Catholicism was forced, and still used to instill rigid binary gender roles, the exploitation of the environment & of people. This piece also reflects on how mi mami and many people have found community and solace in catholic prayer and practice. How my blood is both of the colonizers and the colonized. And how my spiritual practice involves digging up my complicated, tangled-up, mestizx roots, reclaiming & replanting them. So with this piece, I pay homage to different ways of healing, and to my ancestral lineage of indigenous femme warriors who continue to protect the sacred.
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