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By Joel Samuel Aragon
Raza Women come from the first national conference of Chicanas who discussed important issues such as better pay, gender inequality, and bodily autonomy. I created a two-tiered cake that represents the inequalities White men have over Raza Women. Raza Women wanted rights for bodily autonomy by having free access to abortion and 24-hour child care centers in Hispanic communities. Raza Women demonstrated as Milk Chocolate are protesting and fighting for their rights and to have more community-centric health care controlled by Hispanic people. The Gold Pearls represent both wealth and power of which the white men (Cookies and Cream) hoard. Raza women have a burning passion to call out and fight these injustices demonstrated as burning candles with them climbing towards the highest tier. Of which, the lower tier (Cracked Chocolate cake with strawberry filling) represents the crumbling of a community without resources available and the anguish it has on them.
Raza Women (Milk Chocolate) march with signs, such as Bodily Autonomy, Pro-Choice, 24 hr Child Care Centers, Chicana Motherhood, and Workers Rights
White Men (Cookies & Cream) hoard most wealth and power (Gold Sugar Pearls) for their own kind and give very little back to communities in need.
Race (Blue Whipcream) demonstrates an impossible tier of which Raza Women are unable to obtain.
Raza Women may be on the lower tier of society due to their "oppressed nationality, as workers, and as women", nonetheless they fought for their rights.
Primary Source:
Alma M. Garcia, ed., Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings (New York: Routledge, 1997), 21-24.
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