Doesn’t it ever feel as if our Brown Folks of Los Angeles are constantly disregarded? As if our diplomas and degrees y nuesta chinga de cada dia are not good enough? As if our younger generations do not carry the potential to be the next best selling author or our next congress womyn?

The way our potential and ambition is overlooked. How we are constantly criticized for our natural skin, our natural hair y nuestra cultura hermosa.

Ya basta con esas chingaderas!

It’s our time to shine and stand in solidarity with the variety tones of Brown that live within our community of East LA.

If you identify as a Chicana/Chicano, Xicana/Xicano, Mexican, Mexican American, Afro Mexican, or are simply Down With The Brown, you can easily relate to what is being spoken about here.

If it isn’t the media that is bashing on us or Trump the Dump Clown then perhaps it's within our own familias where we are victims of Machismo or verbal/domestic abuse. It’s sad to see our people fight one another instead of rising up juntos to destroy the patriarchal capitalist society we live in.

Now if ending white supremacy is one of the major goals on your to do list, don’t you worry now--YOU ARE NOT ALONE! There are many of us who are, at this very moment, taking the steps necessary to gradually revolt and reconstruct the system.

Our lives are just beginning, and if you’re reading this far in, chances are you’re already on the right path towards improvising and getting involved within the community. Here is your chance to link and connect with individuals who also feel the same way.

On Wednesday May 18, the MEXA de ELAC is having an Open Mic and Art Exhibition free for the entire community. On top of our lovely visitors and artist@s there will also be local vendors and FREE FOOD provided by a local restaurant in none other than Boyle Heights. Our doors open at 6pm to 10pm and the Open Mic will start at 7 pm. The great thing is that it will all be taking place in our new building located in front of the Library, in F5-205 (Multi-Purpose Room) with a huge stage for our magnificent performers and poets and musicians to have to themselves.

Our motive is to provide a space for Our People to express their voices, to liberate their passions, and empower one another.

This event is one of many that will be held by MEXA de ELAC, so to keep in touch with us via Facebook go ahead and click: https://www.facebook.com/MEXAdeELAC

Also, invite your peoples! Even if they don’t identify with the above, we don’t discriminate pa nada.

In Solidarity,

Yesenia Salazar