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Self Help Graphics & Art would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Artist, Yolanda M. López. In the 1970s, Yolanda M. López produced the most iconic and widely circulated images of the Chicano Movement. She is best known for her series that transforms the Virgin of Guadalupe into a new vision of Chicana womanhood and subjectivity, challenging patriarchy and sexism with Mexican American communities and the broader white-dominated society. Produced in 1978, it is among the first visual expressions that reclaim Guadalupe as a feminist icon of empowerment. This alternative representation of Chicanas visualized the now-popular intersectional feminist theory that understands racism, sexism, and classism as a matrix which structures the inequalities that impede women’s lives. That year, she also created the iconic poster “Who’s the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim?” Challenging the Carter administration’s immigration plans, the print continues to circulate and mobilize communities against anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant policies. Read our full tribute here.
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