For a new video produced with the help of a Department of Arts and Culture individual artist project grant, performing artist Marisela Barrera brings together two seemingly disparate characters: San Antonio legend the Donkey Lady and revolutionary Mexican journalist Ricardo Flores Magón.
What do a mythical figure and a doomed anarchist have in common?
“The Burra is an anarchist, as well,” Barrera said, using the Spanish nickname of the Donkey Lady. “They’re really of the same people.”.