How to Use Chicana in a Sentence

Chicana

noun

• The office highlights how the shrines have inspired Chicana artists like Amalia Mesa-Bains, who is known for her altars and ofrendas.
  — Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
• The term Chicana refers to American women of Mexican descent.
  — Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
• Garcia is a Chicana organizer who has fought against landlord abuses, wage theft, and police brutality.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2024
• The Chicana hitmaker is also slated to perform at Coachella on April 14.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2023
• Eva is a Chicana glass artist who also practices the ancient traditions of brujería (witchcraft) and curanderismo (healing).
  — Karla Peterson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Like both Chicana Falsa and the matchstick litanies, Cardona’s poems focus both on his adolescence and his family.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
• The Chicana hitmaker is also slated to perform at weekend 2 of Coachella on Saturday.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2023
• The longtime Chicana politician and activist broke barriers and inspired generations of women and Latinos.
  — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• Like Teotihuacán and Café Tacvba, her exhibition looks into formative images and experiences from the past, glimpsed through a Chicana lens.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
• Vanessa Wachtmeister is a proud Chicana from Los Angeles, California.
  — Vanessa Wachtmeister, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
• Kimberly Trigueros is a Chicana illustrator and mother from Southern California.
  — Kimberly Trigueros, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Identifying mostly as Chicana and Latinx, the Mamis are intergenerational, ranging from 18 to 66 years old.
  — Kamren Curiel, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
• Mesa-Bains sees Sor Juana’s story as creating a sense of community among Chicana women but also investing the individual with pride and confidence.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
• The daughter of working-class parents and an unapologetic Chicana who transformed the political landscape of Los Angeles, died Sunday night after a three-year battle with cancer.
  — Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• Many Chicana/o artists were also engaged in building structures to support their work in response to a lack of institutional support, assuming the roles of not just artists, but critics, art historians, curators, and arts administrators.
  — Mary Thomas, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Gloria Molina, the chair of a Chicana group that had agreed to bear any legal costs for the plaintiffs and appeared alongside Madrigal at a press conference announcing the lawsuit, went on to forge a pioneering career as a Eastside politician.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024