Yvette Hess Artist

03/07/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AaVAg5ddC/
Great post by Josh Prinsloo !

03/07/2025

Women, keep writing 🖊️

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942–2004) was a pioneering Chicana writer, cultural theorist, and q***r feminist whose work transformed the understanding of identity and borders.

Born in south Texas to a family of migrant farm workers, she grew up speaking Spanish but was forced to speak only English in school—an early experience that shaped her lifelong commitment to honoring linguistic and cultural hybridity.

She suffered from a rare hormonal disorder that caused chronic pain and made her feel different from an early age. After earning her BA and MA in English and Education, she taught creative writing, Chicano Studies, and feminist theory at several universities.
Anzaldúa co-edited the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back, which brought together the voices of women of color and helped lay the foundation for intersectional feminism. Her landmark book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza blended memoir, poetry, and theory.

Her writing fluidly moved between six languages and dialects—including English, Chicano Spanish, Tex-Mex, and Nahuatl—in what she called “linguistic terrorism,” a radical act of reclaiming identity. Openly le***an, she integrated q***r identity, indigenous spirituality, and disability into her work, describing herself as “una herida abierta”—an open wound—and seeing writing as a shamanic act of healing.

03/07/2025

“The stories about motherhood we are told are designed to make us good mothers: selfless, tireless, grateful. But they do not prepare us for the truth.“

—Rachel Cusk

01/07/2025

✨🧡

Get out of the box of your own story.

Some stories are boxes.
Some stories are prisons.
Some stories are towers.
Some stories are ruts.

Some stories are wooden cabinets
filled with strange little medicine bottles—
vintage blue glass, sea green—
each one holding a hidden apothecary of soul.

How do you get out of the box of your own story?
You follow a trail of breadcrumbs
into the wild woods of your own becoming.

You feed the story mythos.
You court it with imaginal marrow.
You drink from the waters of life
hidden in its mythic veins.

And—
you write your way out.
You dance your way out.
You create your way out.
You howl your way free.

You become the author of your life
and your becoming.
You wear the crown of your stories.
The box no longer wears on you.

—

This is the work we do in Rewilding the Word—
September 2025
a yearlong mythopoetic immersion in story, voice, and creative rites of passage.

https://www.thewildremembering.com/rewilding-the-word

Accepting Applications.

Words: Stasha Ginsburg
The Wild Remembering
Image: Kristy Fritz-Martin

01/07/2025

Looking2Learn is the education and learning department at the studio, YAh Art and Design Studio Ladismith.

👉🏽 This July is going to be full of creativity! Come learn with us through workshops, classes, and demos — and meet the talented team making it all possible.

Over the next while, we’ll be introducing our teachers, the classes, and their class dates. 💃🏽🌻

Send us a WhatsApp at 064 861 4556 or email [email protected] to find out more or to arrange your own learning session. ✨

Looking2Learn is die onderwys en leer departement by YAh Art and Design Studio Ladismith.

👉🏽Hierdie Julie gaan propvol kreatiwiteit wees! Kom leer saam by ons werkswinkels, klasse en demo’s — en ontmoet die talentvolle span wat dit moontlik maak.

Oor die volgende ruk gaan ons ons onderwysers, die klasse en hul klasdatums aan julle bekendstel 💃🏽🌻

Stuur vir ons ’n WhatsApp by 064 861 4556 of e-pos na [email protected] om meer uit te vind of om u eie leerklas te reël. ✨