Radio Memorial for Gloria
To mark the 20th anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa’s passing, SBC Gallery invited the public to participate in a radio memorial for the late Chicana writer and activist.
The workshop is drawn from Gutierréz’s relationship with death, a meaningful connection she shares with her grandmother. She believed in an infra world where we go when we pass away. She, who considered ‘La Santa Muerte’ her primary protector, told Amanda about this infra world—a place we remain in until we are no longer remembered.
In Mexico, on “Día de los muertos” (The day of the dead), families place offerings at home to help the dead remain in the infra world. As such, Amanda offered a radio memorial to the late Gloria Anzaldúa, remembering her and her legacy.
As part of this session, we celebrated the work of Gloria Anzaldúa through a participatory reading and writing workshop. We discussed and reflected upon Anzaldúa’s life and legacy, departing from two chapters of Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), while also engaging with Gutiérrez’s listening practices to explore ways of incantation* through lighting a wax candle and burning a palo santo, a connection with memory and death through radio as a ritual.
These workshops were presented at:
