The show’s success was a milestone that would have been unthinkable in 2010, when I and a handful of other migrants founded the Mulan Community Service Center to provide community outreach and mutual support to our peers. We have been creating art and literature almost since the beginning. For so long, migrant women have been marginalized both socially and economically, and the scant attention they draw from mass media often depicts them as a disadvantaged, pitiable group in urgent need of outside help. Our creative works were not only a response to that impulse; they were also a way to hone our self-awareness and voices.
Over the past 10 years, we created songs, skits, dances, monologue plays, stage plays, photographs, exhibitions, and all kinds of literary works featuring migrant women. In 2019, we partnered with Zhao Zhiyong, a professor at the Central Academy of Drama, to produce the stage play “Maternity Chronicle.”
