My Father's Mother
My Mother
Our Mother
MALINTZIN
__________
MARINA
__________
MALINCHE


Malintzin: our indigenous mother
Marina: our violated mother
Malinche: the mother of mestizaje

Her bones have withstood the violations of colonization
Her womb has carried an entire nation

Her legacy, she shares with Mexican women.
Our Mexican Eve
She is the myth we need and the mother we yearn for.

The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
a violation of indigenous land.
Cortez' conquest of Her body
a violation of the indigenous woman.

The fallen Indigena.
Falls into the latinx diaspora.



- to her daughters -

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