She is considered a feminist pioneer in Mexico because she campaigned for the active role of women in society, in politics and for broad popular education as a means of emancipation and social change.
[1] Between 1912 and 1913, she joined the Liga de Amigos del Pueblo, a group of liberal intellectuals led by Luis Alatorre, a politician who ran for governor of Jalisco in 1912 and tried to enlighten the working class and combat the fanaticism of the time through plays, poems and speeches.
Through the Liga, Apodaca got to know the Centro Bohemio, a cultural, political, progressive and anti-clerical group led by José Guadalupe Zuno.
During the Mexican Revolution, she actively participated in the armed struggle, particularly in a battle of the "Division of the North" (División del Norte) in February 1915 under the command of Dieguez.
[2] After the fall of the Huerta government, she began working closely with the then interim governor Manuel M. Diéguez, as both held the Catholic Church responsible for the precarious living situation of the people in Jalisco.
In August 1914, she founded and led the Círculo Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez in Jalisco, together with her sister Laura Apodaca and a larger group of female teachers who gave weekly lectures at the Teatro Degollado for female teachers, state high school students and allies of the revolutionary struggle, with the aim of integrating more women into the Constitutionalists party.
[3] The Centro ran a newspaper, El Iconoclasta and a Sunday school dependent on the workers' organisation Casa del Obrero Mundial, in which children were taught the principles of social justice, solidarity and freedom.
The aim of this commission was to spread the ideals and principles of the revolution throughout the country through the popular magazine Argos From 1920 to 1940, she lived in Mexico City, where she worked again as a teacher, headmistress and school inspector.