Karina Muñiz-Pagán

In January 2020, L’AiR Arts hosted a residency for artists and cultural professionals as an opportunity to mark the 100th anniversary of the prolific period of intercultural artistic exchange during the 1920s in Paris, France.
The L’AiR Arts Multidisciplinary Residency: Revisiting the Roaring Twenties: Art, Culture and the École de Paris Les Années Folles 1920 / 2020, brought together eleven artists from diverse artistic practices, and eight cultural professionals, arts administrators, academ...

Mi Querida El Paso poem: Floricanto - from East Los to El Chuco with Love, September 2019

Karina Muñiz-Pagán is a writer, literary translator and organizer, born to a Scandinavian mother and Mexican father in San Francisco, California. She has an MFA in Prose from Mills College where she was the Community Engagement Fellow and taught creative writing to members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas; a Latina immigrant rights organization where she also served as Political Director. As a result of the generative workshops, Karina co-founded the writers’ group, Las Malcriadas, and edited and ...

Karina Muñiz-Pagán is a queer Xicana prose writer of mixed-heritage with roots in San Francisco and the El Paso/Juarez border. She has a MFA from Mills College where she was the Community Engagement Fellow and taught creative writing to members of Mujeres Unidas y Activas, a Latina immigrant rights base-building organization in the Bay Area, where she also served as Political Director. As a result of the workshops, Karina is working on a bilingual (Spanish/English) anthology Where I Live to b...

Las Malcriadas
Domestic Workers Right to Write
A bilingual anthology edited and translated by Karina Muñiz-Pagán and Argelia Muñoz Larroa. Mujeres Mágicas is a brave, moving, and powerful collection that carries us inside the lives and truths of Latina immigrant women, narrated on their own terms. Over and over, I found myself floored and moved by the courage, pain, resilience, and insight found in these pages. This book is essential reading, beautifully woven, and an enormous gift. Carolina d...

Indómitas is a new, live podcast series hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring untamable voices of fierce women artists and activists. For its second installment, Indómitas will interview authors Mirna Ruíz and Lulú Reboyoso, who, together with a cohort of woman, published the anthology "Mujeres Mágicas" for Las Malcriadas, edited and translated by Karina Muñiz-Pagán and Argelia Muñoz. Ruíz and Reboyoso are also co-authors of the poetry collection in the anthology, “To Live in the U.S. You Need.”

This is a FREE community event (though donations are ...

Endangered Species, Enduring Values
An Anthology of San Francisco Area
Writers and Artists of Color
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Una nueva antología de arte y literatura preparada por un escritor local la cual presenta contribuciones de gente de diferentes etnias debutará en la sede principal de la Biblioteca Pública el 8 de abril.

Los Valores perdurables de las especies en peligro de extinción: una antología de escritores de diversas etnias del Área de la Bahía, es el título de una obra cuya recopiladora, Shizue Seigel, busca unir a diferentes comunidades por medio del arte narrativo.

Opening event for "Endangered Species, Enduring Values: An Anthology of San Francisco Area Writers and Artists of Color," edited by Shizue Seigel. This book provides a compelling snapshot of the 58% of people of color in the nation’s most diverse and progressive metropolis. The book includes prose, poetry and four color artwork from established to emerging writers ages 14 - 80, from immigrant to indigenous people. The writers have roots in Native America, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the M...

Queer and trans domestic workers are organising against discrimination. Karina Muñiz-Pagán reports.
Globally more than 67 million domestic workers provide services for working families and ageing populations. They are largely women and disproportionately immigrant women of colour, facing exploitative working conditions and systemically low-wages. Those who are also trans, lesbian, bisexual, or queer face particular forms of mistreatment and harassment. Very rarely do labour laws recognise, or...