Anayvette Maria Martinez is the daughter of a Salvadorian father and Nicaraguense-American mother. She is a fierce self-proclaimed “GuaNica High Femme†who hails from the streets of San Francisco and yells loudly like an evangelica about being the writers of herstory and carrying ancestry within ghetto scriptures. She has been a part of multiple organizing projects with youth and creative writing collectives. As a tropical urban hermana she strongly believes in the power of spoken word as a form of social justice, and is recently awaiting her second greatest creation "Diegito" her sequel to “La Lupitaâ€!
As an activist, poet, organizer, daughter of Elegua/Yemaya and graduate of U.C.L.A and current grad student at San Francisco State Ethnic Studies, she enjoys eating ripe mangos under a full moon and making love to her writing in heels and lips gloss. Her inspirations and influences come from her colorful familia and purple corazon. She is a “Raza Womyn†for life and actively fights against heterosexism, homophobia, racism, classism, sexism, imperialism, and any other form of oppressive structures that seeks to exploit, marginalize, or exoticise people of color and underrepresented groups. Her whole life can be summed up in one word, “metamorphosisâ€, as she has been a loca chola gang member turned rockera, then once even cheerleader, “haterâ€, new age spiritualist, Chicana nationalist turned one-love mama embracing her Central-American roots, and the list can go on and on, and is why she is sometimes known as “La Maripositaâ€. Currently her days are filled with influencing young minds in writing circles/playground play-dates, writing her thesis, and taking walks around her “Barrio Excelsior†while taking in the rare San Pancho sol. She also stood as “La Mera Mera†of La Gente newsmagazine in her last year at UCLA, and continues to let the world have it palabra por palabra.
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