Brainstorm Week 10 - Eric Fong

Feministas in the borderlands organize the community in the present through forms of group activities and missions such as the Ovarian Psychos. The Ovarian Psycos Cycle Brigade is a new group of feminist women of color that seek to congregate the "the fuckups. They seek to congregate those with trauma in their lives" (3:08 Ovarian Psycos). Ovarian Psychos use bicycles as a manifestation of shared identity. The community creates opportunities for family among those that are left behind. "building community" "sense of older women looking after my daughter" (5:16). They take ownership of a masculine symbol (bikes) to reject the oppression of society.
Chicas Rockeras Rock Camp for Girls is a form of Chicanafuturism by utilizing rock and more importantly utilizing rock as a new form of individual expression and attention gathering of one's existence. There are goals "encouraging self-esteem and self-empowerment in young girls through a medium of music" (amerpsandla.com) Marin is doing a great service that provides opportunities for young girls to develop their voice through typically male forms of music. This form of education serves as both education and as a community. Overtime, introducing more and more young girls into "male" forms of music will help build resilience and community in this sector.
"Chicas Rockeras SELA provides a unique Summer Camp experience where campers explore the joys and challenges of collaborative music-making while being guided by inspirational female mentors" This is a great opportunity for Chicanas to reclaim masculine spaces for their own self-expression. It is a new form of Chicana awareness and opportunity hence a form of Chicana Futurism.
I believe the most sustainable path for feministas to move everyone towards emancipation is to involve everyone. First, much like the examples given with Ovarian Psychos, creating smaller groups of communities are vital building blocks for security for feministas to feel a connection to a community and establish their own identity. The next step for a sustainable revolution is work towards congregating the blocks of different communities together under the shared banner of freedom of expression and community. Building a community among communities, is vital for the proliferation of universal emancipation.