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Writer and activist Cherríe Moraga reckons with history in her newest play "The Mathematics Of Love"

Gareth Gooch, resized and recropped

 

Oakland-based Cherríe Moraga is a Chicana poet, essayist, playwright and feminist activist.

She may be best known for "This Bridge Called my Back," the anthology of writings by women of color that she co-edited with Gloria Anzaldua in 1981, but her body of work extends much further, and she's been steadily writing and producing plays since the mid-80s.

 

Her newest play "The Mathematics Of Love" is currently running at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. It takes place in a hotel lobby in Los Angeles at the turn of this century, where Peaches, an older Mexican woman, has a time-traveling encounter with La Malinche —  a controversial Mexican historical figure. Cherríe Moraga spoke with KALW's Jen Chien to talk about her take on La Malinche and about liberating ourselves from 500 years of history.

 

MORAGA: We, you know, as people of color, we cannot afford to be cynical. You have to have tenacious faith that things change.

"The Mathematics Of Love" is showing at the Brava Theater August 10th through August 27th. 

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