Before you scroll down: For a better viewer experience look at this exhibition on a desktop computer. On June 24, 2022, in a sweeping and historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, one upheld for nearly a half-century, ceased to exist. It is a ruling that swiftly and decisively affected the lives of every person in this country but weighs most heavily upon any individual capable of carrying a child to term. The decision to terminate a pregnancy is…
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PROGRAMACIÓN | MEMORIAS Y RESISTENCIAS
Hans Wimmer, Baile a la orilla del mar. Imagen cortesía del Archivo Wimmer Lutz Instruments of Memory y el Museo de las Mujeres Costa Rica presenta MEMORIAS Y RESISTENCIAS: MUJERES | ARTISTAS| HISTORIAS AFROLATINAS Y CARIBEÑAS, un proyecto curatorial que reúne investigaciones de Claudia Mandel Katz (Argentina-Costa Rica), Adriana Palomo (Argentina), Claudia Pretelin (México-Estados Unidos) y Sussy Vargas Alvarado (Costa Rica), cuatro historiadoras latinoamericanas cuyo trabajo para esta exposición se centra en un enfoque integrado de género, uniendo distintas latitudes a través de una misma temática. Esta muestra virtual incluye…
MY DEAR AMERICANS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ILEANA DOBLE HERNÁNDEZ
Ileana Doble Hernández and I have crossed similar paths but haven’t met yet. We both lived in Monterrey, Mexico, and Rochester, New York without knowing each other. We both left the northern state of Mexico due to the increasing violence and while she moved north to the US, I went back to the capital of Mexico. Although the chances to meet should have increased during our period living in New York, at the time we were both getting ready to leave again. In 2019, a year after moving to Los…