From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA, I'm Mariano Rosa.

And today, one of our how I made it segments with Chicana Punk Legend, Alice Bag.

When you think about the origins of punk, you might imagine a group of men, maybe white,

thrashing around to the sound of heavy guitar riffs and ear splitting drum crashes.

But for Alice Bag, the history of punk has always included women, Latinos, and people of color.

Alice Bag is the lead singer and co-founder of The Bags, one of the first bands to

form during the first wave of punk in the early 1970s in Los Angeles.

To Alice, punk is much more than just a musical genre. It's an attitude. It's a way to challenge

the limitations and expectations that were placed on her as a Mexican-American woman.

And while she began playing punk nearly four decades ago, Alice Bag hasn't stopped making music

or pushing back against social barriers in new and creative ways. And that's exactly what she did

in February of 2019 at Guinsanilla Reimagine, a party that brought together women of color artists

across disciplines to reinvent the longstanding coming of age celebration, creating a space that

challenges the patriarchal history and values behind the Guinsanilla tradition.

We really should be acknowledging milestones, not so much in terms of age or beauty or whether we

can procreate or find a partner because all those things don't really matter to everyone.

The event was held at the Los Angeles Music Center in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion,

the very home of the Los Angeles Opera. But rather than Opera, the hall reverberated with everything

from Madiachi, from the all-women Madiachi collective Las Gori Bres.

To Gumbia Bacchata from Trulita Vinyl Club, the non-binary and women's DJ collective.

Disrupting this traditionally white space, Alice's performance in Guinsanilla Reimagine

is a testament to the singer's punk ethic, always loud, always bold, and always challenging any

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