Tom’s Reviews > The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas > Status Update

Vivid description of leaving Mexico for schooling in Canada: ‘My braids were pulled back I couldn’t close my eyes. My little gold scissor earrings that opened and shut hung from my ears. I had to learn new languages, not just English… to sit up straight, they cut my hair… gone were my opening and closing earrings. My body, my head, my heart, were in training.' Small acts of resistance and regular punishments.