File:Our Lady (Alma Lopez).jpg

English: From the artist's website after protest of this painting: "After my initial shock to the reaction to "Our Lady," I realized that the organizers were primarily men, the Catholic Church, and conservative religious groups who would bus men and women to the protest sites or would ask them to sign postcards or write emails...My visual work and the "Our Lady" controversy are topics of study in courses that range from women's studies, queer studies, religious studies, chicano/latino studies, art history studies, museum studies, american studies as well as new media studies."

I admit, I was surprised by the violent reaction to "Our Lady" because I was born in Mexico and raised in California with the Virgen as a constant in my home and my community. I know that there is nothing wrong with this image which was inspired by the experiences of many Chicanas and their complex relationship to La Virgen de Guadalupe. I am not the first Chicana to reinterpret the image with a feminist perspective, and I'm positive I won't be the last."

[Source: www.almalopez.net/ORindex.html]