Thursday, Nov 14, 2019
This was the Bay Area book tour for the 2018 book, Chicanas Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era (University of Texas) featuring co-editors Maria Cotera and Maylei Blackwell and several chapter contributors. Susana’s chapter is titled “‘It’s Not a Natural Order:’ Religion and the Emergence of Chicana Feminism in the Cursillo Movement in San Jose” and describes the spiritual journeys of three of Comunidad’s founding members (Jessie Garibaldi, Maria Oropesa, and Phyllis Soto) and their struggle to reconcile their experiences as Mexican American women with the patriarchal Church.
Huge crowd….entire classes, probably over 225… 
Wall decor included students project. Instructor Apryl Berney assigned students to read the chapter by Blackwell and SF artist Esther Hernandez, and then to create an art project building on her classic image of “La Virgen Defendiendo los Derechos de los Chicanos” while drawing on their coursework in Asian and Chicana/o history. More close-up images of student work here
Susana Gallardo and Soma de Bourbon 
Susana gallardo and Maylei Blackwell
