Dirty Laundry (2024) displays embroidered text and imagery on white women’s underwear to call attention to hypocrisy of a nation and state that promotes freedom yet dictates reproductive rights. I believe no governing body should be able to limit what one chooses to do with their own body. The embroidered imagery alludes to common terms and political or religious symbols that were significant during the second wave feminist movement and now resurfacing on social media about the celebrating or criticizing, of national and state policy regarding the topic today. The embroidery technique is evocative of surgical reproductive procedures, and the underwear is used to represent where they are performed. As a Mexican American woman, I witness the progress México has made for reproductive justice, despite its heavy Catholic influence, and I yearn for my home country to give our people the same autonomy and freedom over our bodies, or else more people are going to suffer. 

2024