Tu'un Dali

Zapoteca Cultural Organizer in LA

September 12, 2019 Luis López Resendiz, Janet Martinez Season 1 Episode 10
Tu'un Dali
Zapoteca Cultural Organizer in LA
Show Notes

Do you live in Los Angeles? Have you attended  the Guelaguetza or the Calenda organized by the Oaxacan community in the streets of LA? If so, we have a surprise for you, in this episode we invited one of the main organizers of these cultural events to share herstory, Ester Hernandez is a powerful Zapotec mujer chingona who serves her community as a cultural organizer for some of the most important events for the indigenous migrant communities from Oaxaca in LA. If you don’t live in LA we invite you to learn about how these Oaxacan events are reivindicating indigenous migrant identities as well as serving as a political statement of the migration of indigenous Oaxacan communities across borders.