Yesterday, I witnessed something that was out of the ordinary. First of all, it was powerful to see what a group of passionated womxn can do, and it is fair to say it was AMAZING!
I truly loved the fact that Polly Olsen acknowledged what is currently happening with the George Floyd murder by taking a minute of silence. It was powerful and it is so refreshing to have the support of brave womxn who have faced challenges and overcome them in their regular lives.
I think I really like the African performance at the beginning and the end of the conference. It was so beautiful to see someone of a similar background as me performing such a beautiful choreography praising her roots and moving so gracefully. It was beautiful to see all the offrenda examples that Ofelia Esparza and Rosanna (I hope those are the correct names) presented. It was so beautiful and amazing to see how we can honor the bravery, the strength, the beauty, the power, the grace and so much more of so many beautiful womxn in multiple ways. It was so inspiring to see how she became an expert in offrendas and her daughter took after her accomplishing beautiful offrendas that not only honor the memories of the dead but also show the beauty of her culture and her heritage. She also challenges us because though she was born in the US in the early 20th century, she made sure her family kept her heritage and passed it down to their kids also. I think the offrenda that I like the most was the one that she was caring on her head because it showed that the memories of our loved ones now gone do not stay at home. The pride and the pain that we carry from their deaths is something we carry daily, and that portable offrenda was a sign of that.
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