Yohanna M.Roa. Pocahontas y la Malinche

New York-based cross-cultural artist Yohanna M. Roa focuses on Pocahontas and Malinche, two characters with similar lives who played a defining role in the conquest processes. Their race, gender, and social class have been constantly overwritten in historical discourse in order to use them to sustain structures of power and control. In her performance, Roa embodies the social problems that have constituted categories of oppression due to the labels imposed on these two historical figures for being women of indigenous race and belonging to the nobility.