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Cherríe L. Moraga’s Mexican Medea intertwines the ancient Greco-Roman myth of sorceress, princess, lover and mother Medea with several of her Mesoamerican mythological sisters such as La Llorona, Coatlicue, Coyolxauhqui, and the ancestral homeland of Aztlán. The play unravels a hauntingly realistic dystopia about Chicanx rights, oppression, the transgression of borders, and the displacement of a people due to their identity and activism. Universal motifs in individual stories of forced migration, a Third World Feminist quadruple suppression on processes of individuation, and reactionary systemic violence are highlighted and manifested in the catastrophic failures of Medea and her sisters.