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LSA is a national non-profit dedicated to promoting and cultivating Latino/a/x Studies. We help scholars present research, exchange ideas, and build coalitions.
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We're getting ready to travel to
@ASU
for this year's conference! The Communications Committee encourages members to Tweet key insights from sessions using the hashtags
#LSA2024
and
#LSAJusticeandJoy
. Be sure to tag us on your Instagram posts and stories as well
@Latinx_Studies
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Last plenary of the conference, Indigenous Migrations! Maylei Blackwell (Cherokee) calls on our field to account for settler colonialism as Asian American Studies has. The framework of critical Latinx indigeneities she offers attends to hybrid hegemonies across borders.
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UCDavis is hosting an in-person event with a virtual option on May 29th! "Chicana Studies Founders" will celebrate the 50 year anniversary of the field by honoring its founders. See thread for RSVP and Registration links.
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LSA 2022 at Notre Dame is now
#LSA22ND
so we won’t crowd our friends at the
#LSA2022
(Law and Society Conference) in Lisbon. So for Latinx scholars,
#LSA2022
is now
#LSA22ND
. See you tonite!
@marisel_moreno
@BeelzeBebout
@innisjimenez
@perezt
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The communications committee ran our first roundtable today to introduce ourselves! Thanks to everyone who came
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🚨 We are excited to announce our Fall Webinar! “Latinx Studies in the Classroom: Critical Issues in Pedagogy.” It will take place November 10, 2023
5 pm EST on Zoom 🧵 1/5
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Thank you to everyone who contributed to
#LSA22ND
to make it a success. Members, attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, and volunteers: THANK YOU! See you in 2 years! (Date & Location TBA soon)
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Celebrating 10 Years of LSA: Rafael Pérez-Torres introduces today's plenary on celebrating our growth while acknowledging the limitations of our field 🧵
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🚨Call for Abstracts—"Oral History and Literary Criticism: Approaches to Researching and Teaching about Latinos/as/x in the U.S."
The US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal invites abstracts for a special volume, edited by Judith Sierra-Rivera...1/12 🧵
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The Executive Council of the Latinx Studies Association shares our profound concern over the war and destructive violence that is taking place against the peoples in Gaza, including Palestinians, and against Jews in Israel. 1/4
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Wonderful panel at
#LSA22ND
on publishing books in Latinx Studies with
@ericzinner
@NYUpress
Kerry Webb
@UTexasPress
Nicole Solano
@RutgersUPress
@_andreinafern
@UNC_Press
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CFP from our colleagues Natalia Deeb-Sossa and Yvette G. Flores at UC Davis
‘Maldito (Damned) Cancer!: Chicanx and Latinx Testimonios of Resilience, Illness and Dealing with Mortality’ | Call for Abstracts of Testimonios | Deadline: March 29, 2024 at 5 pm 🧵
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🚨New call for chapters from our colleagues Trent Masiki and José I. González for 'Post-Soul Afro-Latinidad: A Critical Reader'
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The official 2024 Conference Program is now available online! Please share widely
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GRADUATE STUDENTS: looking to connect with your peers in Latinx Studies from across the nation? Be sure to stop by LSA's first ever Graduate Student Networking event organized by the inaugural Graduate Student Committee. Friday at the Graduate Hotel in Tempe at 6pm!
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Exciting event on Zoom at UNC next week with our very own Dr. Aparicio!
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You have until May 11 to pre-register for LSA 2022 at Notre Dame! Register and become a member here:
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New Directions in Latino Studies: IUPLR Mellon Dissertation Fellows share their emerging research on the racial politics of Latinx media, memories of dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, and Central American placemaking in Houston!
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Good morning LSA conference attendees! Feel free to tweet out insights from the panels you learn from using these hashtags
#LSA2024
#LSAJusticeandJoy
.
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Dr. Marisol Negrón of UMass Boston responds to Aparicio's questions by advocating for a "place-based ethnic studies pedagogy" in Latinx Studies toward the co-creation of "living archives" with students. 1/5
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LSA 2024 (Program Updates): We are pleased to make the revised LSA 2024 Program available for you all on the conference page of our website. PDF link in thread 🧵
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Some important notes from our site committee led by Sujey Vega and Anita Huízar-Hernández, who have been working very hard to ensure that this year's meeting is a success 📝 1/12
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Thank you
@larrylafountain
for helping make
#LSA22ND
a fun and enlightening space!
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@DrYoFiggy
closes with a crucial note: The moment you see the possibility of "you," of your past and future, it enables you to feel joy and imagine the possibility of liberation and "livingness."
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LSA president Dr. Frances Aparicio opens our webinar with a series of important questions: How can we frame knowledge as an alternative life experience rather than neoliberal cultural capital? How can we revive the original values of student movements in the 1960s and 70s... 1/2
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Friendly reminder that early registration ends next Wednesday, February 14, 2024 for the 2024 LSA Conference, Placing Justice and Joy in Latinx Studies.
Conference Registration – Latina/o Studies Association ().
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Yes! Thank you
@_AEChavez_
and
@DosSantosChi
for being a part of
#LSA22ND
and making the fiesta an amazing one.
The Chicago-based Latinx band
@DosSantosChi
with lead singer
@_AEChavez_
performing at the
@Latinx_Studies
Association fiesta at Notre Dame in Indiana. Amazing! Had the whole house dancing! Great sound! Check them out!
#LSA22ND
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Blackwell acknowledges that latinidad can be a powerful tool of solidarity, but we have to do the work rather than simply deploy the term. Citing
@DrYoFiggy
, she reiterates that the house of latinidad can reinscribe inequities if it doesn’t center indigeneity and blackness.
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Exciting postdoc opportunity for humanities scholars with DePaul’s Social Transformation Research Collaborative!
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Blackwell leaves us with the following questions: How can we share, reconfigure, and transform power in Latino Studies? How can Latino Studies become a field that attends to our intersectional oppressions and identities? This is a necessary precursor to interdisciplinary work.
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Rodríguez speaks against revisionist work, historical amnesia, and binary thinking, calling on scholars to "read everything" and "build upon work that has been done," to "be in conversation": "We don't have time to reinvent the wheel."
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As director of
@CentroPR
, Figueroa-Vásquez aim for a horizontal, feminist, and decolonial center organized around key thematics rather than disciplinarity. She insists that latinidad cannot exist without Blackness and Indigeneity: "Without them, Latinidad is something else."
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Allison Sáenz of the UofH moves beyond "unbelonging" when considering 1980s migration to Houston. With the backdrop of the Sanctuary movement, this history of settlement and adaption resulted in "little Central Americas" which Sáenz argues are sanctuaries in their own right.
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Starting in under an hour! Link in bio
🚨 We are excited to announce our Fall Webinar! “Latinx Studies in the Classroom: Critical Issues in Pedagogy.” It will take place November 10, 2023
5 pm EST on Zoom 🧵 1/5
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Finally, Rodríguez speaks to a need to reach out beyond academia and into our communities to "make our wealth communal wealth."
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Need to shop a book proposal? Want some hot new
#Latinx
books? Go to the
@UTexasPress
booth at the
#LSA2022
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Looking forward to attending the 2022
@Latinx_Studies
conference at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana this week, where I will be speaking on
@kevinfret
and about my book
#Translocas
as well as on Latinxs in the Midwest!
#LSA2022
#LSA22
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Rodríguez argues that Central American Studies was born on an invisibility, including in Latinx Studies. Why don't hiring committees include us? As a field, we must remain open to one another and rip open the boundaries of the field.
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We'll miss seeing you at
#LSA2022
! But you can still see our new & recent
#LatinxStudies
titles in our virtual booth & save 30% with code LATX22 through August 14, 2022
Working on a project? Our editor
@RColesworthy
would love to hear about it!
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The link to the recording from last Fall is now live! Like, subscribe, and share if you find our last pedagogical webinar insightful for educators in Latinx Studies
🚨 We are excited to announce our Fall Webinar! “Latinx Studies in the Classroom: Critical Issues in Pedagogy.” It will take place November 10, 2023
5 pm EST on Zoom 🧵 1/5
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If your presenting at
#LSA22ND
and using visual aids, don’t forget your laptop/tablet or phone. We have the dongles!
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A reminder for folks coming via Chicago to
#lsa2022
: Keep in mind South Bend is on Eastern Daylight Time.
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The
@Latinx_studies
conference starts today! Please browse some of our titles at the link below and take advantage of our 30% discount offer, good on all titles on our website (use discount code RLSA22.)
#LatinxStudies
#LSA22
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Relatedly, one of our limitations as a field is that we are housed in post-Enlightenment institutions. Why do we want to be included in a corrupt project that co-opts our liberatory language?
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🚨 Conference update from LSA secretary Monika Gosin: The LSA wants to inform its members that the Conference Program has been updated and that we have accommodated all requests for changes. If you did not request changes, your schedule and information remains the same. 🧵1/3
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Negrón argues that music maintains a privileged space in the constitution of identity, which works to the benefit of students in the classroom with respect to engagement. 5/5
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See this call for chapter contributions! 'Inequality and its Solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean,' Editors: Dr Kevin Williams, Dr Warren Benfield, and Dr Dacia Leslie 🧵This edited collection aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the complex issue of inequality...
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In her teaching, Negrón points students to community leaders such as Felita Oyola and José Massó, along with the civic infrastructure (e.g., record stores, performance spaces) of salsa, reggaeton, and bachata in Boston. 4/5
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Yes!Yes!Yes!
It absolutely does not get better than these site committee divas. Thanks
@marisel_moreno
and
@spalomagl
for making ND look so good for
#LSA22ND
. I’m proud to be your colleague!
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Thank you
@ontiverosphd
for being part of making this a successful conference!
Grateful to have learned from so many and danced and had good food in South Bend for
#LSA2022
. Enhorabuena to all the leaders of
@Latinx_Studies
and hopefully see everyone in two years
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Thank you to everyone who contributed to
#LSA22ND
to make it a success. Members, attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, and volunteers: THANK YOU! See you in 2 years! (Date & Location TBA soon)
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Ana Patricia Rodríguez of UMD closes with the origins of our field and the need for Central American pessimism. "Dolor" is a call to action," and Central Americans are seeped in it. Pessimism affords the possibility of demanding change while experiencing joy.
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@DrYoFiggy
insists on relationality and a collective commitment to collaboration, and highlights a need to marry narratives with hard data: "stories can betray us, and the numbers always betray us."
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A living archive is one that enables students to come into a sense of embodied knowledge-making for the collection of ephemera, documentation of oral histories, and practice of reciprocity with local communities which, in many cases, face systemic erasure. 3/5
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Velázquez Estrada closes with a note on the early emergence of Latinx Studies from political movements, and the need to be brave and confront settler colonialism from Central American to Palestine. We need to hold space for our students who are experiencing these tensions. 7/7
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A place-based ethnic studies pedagogy relates the broad concerns and questions of Latinx Studies to the local concerns of students. The goal is to create a reciprocal relationship between the politics of the public/private sphere and the work we do in the classroom. 2/5
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Michelle Vasquez Ruiz (Zapotec) of USC shares a powerful story of her father’s joy upon meeting Dr. Felipe López which inspired her to pursue a PhD. She insists that increasing representation at the level of faculty is necessary to serve our Latinx indigenous students.
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Dr. John Ribó of Florida State University discusses the censorship and banning of Ethnic Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies field in the US. The repetition of this historical dynamic marks a unique opportunity to cement the importance of our work and resist. 1/3
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As an Association that represents the interests of a rich diversity of Latinx people in the United States and globally, we honor and acknowledge our Jewish and Arab/Muslim heritages, of which we stand proud. 2/4
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Thanks to Marisel and all the other organizers for making this happen! It’s going to be fun!
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We exhort all involved to work toward a ceasefire and eventual peace. Our world deserves nothing less. 4/4
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We denounce antisemitism, racism, and settler colonial violence of all kinds. The devastating violence in this region of the world that has taken the lives of thousands of innocent civilians, including children, is an egregious atrocity against human rights. 3/4
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Narcisa Nuñez of UAlbany meditates on the challenges of joy given years of ongoing state violence on the island. In light of violent histories that engender instability, Nuñez argues that diasporic art offers spaces of memory for reimagining justice.
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@GCristinaMora
of UC-Berkeley presents a study with Nicholas Varvas and Dominic Cedillo with startling findings: less than 4% of academic institutions offer degrees in Latinx Studies despite consistent growth in the student body...
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We're excited to announce our first publicity collaboration in the form of a podcast episode on 'Latinos Who Thrive' with Victor Escalante, featuring LSA member Astrid N. Sambolín Morales! The episode touches on language acquisition, race, and education
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...most programs and tenure-track faculty were implemented and hired in the 1960s due to West Coast student-activism on public campuses. We have not seen nearly that amount of growth since. Departments established 2000+ have 0-1 tenure-track faculty.
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Special thanks to LSA vice-president María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo for organizing this necessary round table!
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Final pedagogical notes for difficult times: Dr. Ribó recommends seeking out therapy, Negrón surrounding ourselves with loved ones, Velázquez Estrada modeling the critical change we want to see for our students, and Aparicio keeping the decolonial project of Latinx Studies alive.
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Making presentations accessible is essential for inclusive communication, ensuring that all audience members, including those with disabilities, can fully engage with and benefit from the content. Please consider the following list to make small but meaningful accommodations:
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Tor Negrete of UCLA asks, what's in a name? Drawing on theories of racial liminality, Negrete shines light on industry practices that create opportunities for actors to play character roles of ambiguous backgrounds, which can advance careers but also promote erasure.
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Book-plug! "In 'The Manufacturing of Job Displacement,' Laura López-Sanders argues that the walls of American businesses hide a system of illegal practices and behaviors that lead to racial inequality in the labor market...
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To address these political realities, Ribó organizes a classroom with his students that is centered on a critical question: Why have foundational texts in our fields been banned over and over again? 3/3
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Updates from the EC! ADA accommodations, instructions for moderators/chairs, and an invitation to the LSA business meeting on April 19th 🧵
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❤️
President of the
@Latinx_Studies
Association Rafael Perez-Torres offering insightful critical observations and consejos during his official address at the 2022 biennial conference at Notre Dame in Indiana. ¡Muchas gracias Rafael! We appreciate your service & leadership.
#LSA22ND
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@katymaldonado97
, one of the contributing authors of “We Are Not Dreamers” spotted at
#LSA2022
🤓Shoutout to Scholar’s Choice for getting our
@DukePress
books here 📚
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Ribó cites the ban on Mexican American Studies in Tuscon, Arizona, the denial of Dr. Lorgia García Peña's tenure case at Harvard, and the present situation in Florida where the tenure system is under attack and small colleges face political pressure to transform themselves. 2/3
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Thanks for being a part of
#LSA22ND
!
Finished out the
#LSA22ND
conference today attending a panel on complicating Latinidad & the Black/White binary in Latinx lit, graphic novels, & video games, like damn these panels have been so thoughtful & engaging. Now I just have to wait for my midnight 🚊 to NYC…
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...in terms of critical pedagogy? What major challenges do we face as educators in Latinx Studies today, from the war in Gaza to censorship in the US? 2/2
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Dr. Velásquez Estrada reflects on the importance of helping students understand the connections between experiences of violence in Central America and the dynamic waves of migration to the US that have generated new forms of political solidarity. 1/7
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Read, think, organize
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A good reminder of the people and spaces that have been supportive throughout the years.
#LSA22
@Latinx_Studies
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The hyper-individualistic model of producing and owning knowledge in neoliberal universities elides the communal and relational methods by which knowledge is shared in Indigenous Latinx pueblos. The success of one person is the success of all, including in diaspora.
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David Martinez (O'odham/Mexican) of ASU vows to remind the public that the borderlands are Indigenous. To call these lands ancestral and sacred is to be in an ethical relationship to it, no matter how little political power you possess. This is why we must combat invisibility.
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The program PDF 🔗:
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Join us through this Zoom link on the 10th:
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If there are any errors related to your panel, titles, and presenters, please alert us (Frances at frances-aparicio
@northwestern
.edu and Alicia at alicia.nunez
@northwestern
.edu) by 5 pm Central/6 pm EST/3 pm PST on Monday March 11 so we can make last-minute revisions if needed.
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🚨Call for New Titles in Latinx Studies: Participation in author panel at 2024 LSA conference 🚨
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This webinar proposes to engage questions related to pedagogical practices in the classroom. How do we critically engage our students so that knowledge is embraced as an alternative life experience and not just as academic capital? 2/5
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@Prof_galarte
UNM shared a powerful and personal story illuminating the possibility of making life better for our gente, such as our trans* kin in the Imperial Valley. He poses the concept of dolor as an affective state of particularity that binds queer and trans studies with...
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