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Details of the immortals: Coyoixauhqui, Aztec goddess of the moon (below) and Yemayah, Yoruba goddess of rivers and the sea. spilled outdoors from the visually vibrant interiors of the Haight to become politicized, and enjoyed a militant renaissance in the Mission district. The predominantly Latina group, Mujeres Muralistas (Women Muralists) took to the scaffolds in the early '70s demonstrating that women could become visible in their own image. (Cervantes and Alicia belonged to this group.) According to Bergman, "A strong women's movement here created a whole body of women raring to go," coupled with good art school programs in the '60s and '70s for women of color, in which key muralists enrolled. "Murals are what made art and politics come together." The image of 1993 Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu, herself an activist for indigenous people's rights, figures prominently in this latest, space-claiming vision. Menchu's head towers on a gable above the adjacent rooftop, radiantly backlit with moonbeams which illuminate her flower-emblazoned Guatemalan blouse (huipil).An ornate Aztec speech glyph denoting "special speech" curls, snakelike, from her lips. In each of two, enormous outstretched hands she holds a goddess: on the left, bare-breasted Yemayah, the Yoruba goddess of rivers and the sea, source of earliest life; and on the right, similarly bare Coyoixauhqui, the Aztec moon goddess, breaking out of dismembered captivity. Goddesses proliferate: the elegant Guanyin, Chinese goddess of compassion; an African funerary mask that represents the spirit of the ancestors; the Indian goddess Dakini, in warrior stance, destroyer of divisive, egotistic ignorance. A Hopi rainbow goddess and ancient Slavic oracle doll round out the feminist pantheon. Beneath Rigoberta's billowing skirt, larger-than-life mortal women are clustered, Georgia O'Keeffe and Joycelyn Elders among them, as well as a Latina healer and a traditional female African drummer. The shadowspirit of poet Audre Lorde reaches high to inscribe the words "future generations." For the sake of inclusiveness, a single figure of the New Man (modeled after muralist Edythe Boone's young son) is depicted next to the drummer. Given the pitfalls of literal inclusiveness—"It obviously ON THE ISSUES WINTER 1995
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