The Proyecto Latina Reading Series is excited to kick off the year with their first feature, writer Paloma Martinez-Cruz. She will be reading from her new book Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. to Anahuac. The book focuses on the medicine traditions of Mesoamerican women that constitute a hemispheric intellectual lineage that thrives despite the legacy of colonization.

Beginning with the pursuit of Chicana models of intellectual agency, Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica is narrated as a journey to decolonize the mind in order to open up to the possibility of non-Western knowledge flows that prevailing analytical authorities have deemed “unintelligible.” Starting in East L.A., the centrality of Mesoamerican women healers can be observed in the literature of the Chicano movement and beyond. The reading will take place Monday, Jan. 16 from 7pm to 9pm at 1950 W. 21st Street. For more information, visit www.proyectolatina.org.