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Rissa Martinez 2025
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This essay examines the intersectionality between Chicana, Punk, and Queerness through the lens of auto-ethnographic biography, specifically commenting on a long-debated feminist issue of domesticity and patriarchal gender roles. With Tomas Ybarra Frausto’s ideas on Rasquachismo and Amalia Mesa-Bains ideas on Domesticana as a basis for my research, I add to their efforts in outlining a new era of femininity through the perspective of punk subculture; that which I refer to as, Punkeras Domestica.
With respect to history, current and future generations of Chicanas are still at odds with their expected roles and as we enter our “Señora” era, we find ourselves asking, what do we take and what do we leave behind?