The 41 List honors and celebrates 41 Latin@ LGBTQ role models. nCritically acclaimed queer Chicana lesbian writer/performer Monica Palacios ...
The 41 List honors and celebrates 41 Latin@ LGBTQ role models. nCritically acclaimed queer Chicana lesbian writer/performer Monica Palacios is widely recognized as working at the forefront of Chicana/Latina, queer, lesbian, feminist performance. For 3 decades, her work has strongly embraced activism, community organizing and cultural work. Monica is the first out Chicana lesbian comic to hit the stage in San Francisco 1982. Palacios was named one of the Latinas of Influence 2013 by the television program HispanicLifestyle.com for her professional accomplishments and community service. Monica celebrated her 30 years as a groundbreaking Chicana lesbian artist with a retrospective show, Queer Chicana Soul, that garnered a personal recognition by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and a resolution from Mayor Villaraigosa and the LA City Council members who declared Oct 12, 2012 Monica Palacios Day.nnShe has written several one-woman shows, plays and screenplays, including: Amor y Revolución, Latin Lezbo Comic, Greetings From A Queer Señorita, Sweet Peace, Memory Is In Your Heart, Clock, Miercoles Loves Luna, Slow Dance With A Woman and Prom. Her plays, short stories, poems and essays, have been published in numerous pivotal anthologies: Fifteen Candles; Out of The Fringe; Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About; and Puro Teatro: A Latina Anthology. Palacios is featured in 4 new publications: Fall 2013 Chicana/Latina Studies, the journal of MALCS, (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambios Social); VIVA Records, 1970-2000 Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press 2013; Here Come The Brides! Reflections On Lesbian Love and Marriage, Seal Press 2012; and Performing the U.S. Latina/o Borderlands, Indiana University Press 2012. nHer play Clock will be produced for Teatro Bravo's 2014 Season, Phoenix. Monica's play Prom was selected for the Brown & Out Festival 3, Los Angeles. Palacios' play Miercoles Loves Luna, was selected for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival May 2013. During 2012 her work was featured at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica; Brown & Out Festival 2, Los Angeles; UC Santa Barbara and New Play Reading Series, Teatro Bravo, Phoenix. In 2011, her screenplay Sweet Peace was selected as a semi-finalist for the Los Angeles Outfest Film Festival. Her performance, The OH! Show, was published in Spring 2009 Chicana/Latina Studies, the journal of MALCS. She has been featured as the subject of critical discussion by leading scholars in the fields of Chicano/Latino Studies, LGBT/Queer Studies and Feminist Studies. She is on the cover and featured in the book: Homecoming Queers: Desire & Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production (2009 Rutgers University Press) by Professor Marivel Danielson. Monica's performances and publications continue to be studied in universities nationally and internationally. November 2010 Palacios was the featured performer at the International Association of Inter-American Studies Conference at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She was instrumental in the launch of and has a blog on the website Epochalips.com, a cyber community for lesbians and allies.nHonor 41 is a national online nonprofit organization that promotes positive images of the Latin@ LGBTQ community. Less
