Mujer de Mucha Enagua, PA' TI XICANA

“Mujer de mucha enagua” is a Mexican Zapatista phrase for a powerful woman activist, meaning a “woman with a lot of petticoat.” Cervántez’s print pays tribute to bold female leaders of different eras. Through text and image, she honors the seventeenth-century Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, twentieth-century Mexican author Rosario Castellanos, and the Zapatista Comandanta (female commander) Ramona. Cervántez dedicates her print to women, using the indigenous feminist spelling of “Xicana” in the title.