Taking the Temperature: The Political Climate & Latina/o Theater

HowlRound: How has the political climate (immigration issues, changing demographics, etc.) changed your ability to do your work? Has it created advantages or disadvantages? "I think work gets made no matter what." "Latina/os have always been challenged by the political climate in the US vis-a-vis our invisibility in the discourse about race. Just when we think things are getting better (Latinos helped put Obama in the White House), along come Arizona's SB 1070, Texas redistricting, and on and on. All of these apparent barriers give us something to fight against collectively and individually."