IMPRESX EN PODERX: From the Fringes to the Extremes

Installation view featuring Forbidden Fruit, 1991, by Patssi Valdez, silkscreen print reproduction, Self Help Graphics & Art Research Collection, and issue number two of Tongues Magazine, 2002, a project of VIVA, tatiana de le tierra papers, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

Developed through undergraduate archival work, interpretation, and curation, IMPRESX EN PODERX: From the Fringes to the Extremes brings together prints, zines, and ephemera housed within the Chicano Studies Research Center Library collections. These works preserve narratives too often excluded from public memory while reimagining dominant ideas of gender, sexuality, spirituality, and belonging. By returning these works to public memory, the exhibition carries their resistance beyond the archive and into the present. 

It’s down your throat, in your face, teaching feminism and giving pronouns. The girlies, gays, and theys have always been here. Want to see how much more radical we can get? Slide down the slippery slope with us in IMPRESX EN PODERX. 

These images are meant to both comfort and confront. 

If you feel a certain way about one, ask yourself what that feeling might be and which aspect of the image might have caused it. Take this opportunity to learn more about yourself and the history of sexual and gender politics in América. 

Featuring selections from the tatiana de la tierra papers and Self Help Graphics & Art Research Collection, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

This exhibition is curated by Marissa Bermudez (’26) and Nathalie Escobedo (’26). Both are undergraduate library fellows under the Chicano Studies Research Center Library’s Daniel and Juleann Gandara Internship Program. They are the first cohort to graduate from the program.

The exhibition is installed in the hallway vitrine.