{"id":1549,"date":"2018-03-08T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:10:59","slug":"international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2018\/03\/08\/international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"Zayetzy<\/td>\n\n

I am sister, I am daughter,<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am mother, I am wife.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am all the women in my lineage,<\/strong><\/p>\n

their triumphs and mistakes my birthright.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

This post and poem were written by Zayetzy Luna Garcia, student worker at the Iowa Women’s Archives<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Family unity is the center of Latinx culture. It is our base, our guide and our future. However, sometimes, we forget the glue that really keeps our family together: our mothers. While today is not Mother\u2019s Day, it is International Women\u2019s Day and being a mother is a challenge many women still choose to take on today. To celebrate the strength and beauty of Latinx women in Iowa, we present to you some excerpts and photos from the Migration is Beautiful<\/em> website at the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives in the University of Iowa Libraries.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/td>\nMaria Mercedes \u201cMercy\u201d Aguilera<\/a> (1936-2013)<\/strong>Despite her years of experience, many factories dismissed her applications. When she applied to work at International Harvester\u2019s Farmall tractor plant, they refused her application on the basis that they believed Mexican women were too short to work on the assembly line.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Victoria Manrique Bata<\/a> (born 1924)<\/strong>\u201cWe joined the craft club and then afterwards I can\u2019t remember who the director was and they asked me if I\u2019d be on the board\u2026I was the only Mexican\u2026All the clubs, like my sewing guild, my quilt guild, the PTA, we went wherever the Mexican people just did not.<\/em> \u201c<\/p>\n

Named YWCA Woman of the Year in 1979.<\/em><\/td>\n

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\"\"<\/td>\nMary Domingues Campos<\/a> (born 1929)<\/strong>\u201cWe were the first multi-cultural doctor\u2019s office,\u201d Mary remembered. \u201cHe was black and I was brown. And we serviced everybody, pink, yellow, blue, whatever color. We had the first bilingual medical practice that I know of here in Des Moines<\/em>.\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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These women took head on the challenge of being Latina in place and time where being a brown woman was not easy. Not only did they persistently fight for their own rights, but they instilled a sense of justice, compassion and honor into their children who would go on to continue fight for women\u2019s and Latinx rights in Iowa and across the country.<\/p>\n

These are just a few stories of our hidden Latina history in Iowa. Feel free to continue to be inspired by reading more amazing Latina stories at the Migration is Beautiful<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am sister, I am daughter, I am mother, I am wife. I am all the women in my lineage, their triumphs and mistakes my birthright. This post and poem were written by Zayetzy Luna Garcia, student worker at the Iowa Women’s Archives Family unity is the center of Latinx culture. It is our base,Continue reading “International Women’s Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":1550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[260,261,263,47,27,262],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}