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Chicana/Latina Studies
volume 24 number 2 (Spring/Summer 2025)
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Author: Kimberly Arellano
Title: ARTIST STATEMENT
Resilience and Resistance: The Art of Kimberly Arellano
Abstract: none available
Pages: 10 - 15 | Authors: Judith Flores Carmona and Katia McEvoy-Holguín
Title: EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Resisting Toxicity Against All Odds: A “Coyolxauhqui Imperative”
Abstract: none available
Pages: 18 - 24 | Authors: Sophia Sangwanthong, Río López and Lore Falls
Title: Toxic Familismo: Experiences of Machismo from Students at an HSI
Abstract: ADDITIONAL AUTHOR: Emily Turley
Through a mixed methods approach, this research illustrates how
LGBT+, Latinx, and other minoritized college students who use the LGBT+
Programs and Latin American Programs (formerly Chicano Programs) at New
Mexico State University (NMSU) experience machismo, toxic masculinity,
racism, homophobia and other forms of discrimination both on and off campus
at a Hispanic Serving Institution in the U.S. Southwest Borderlands. These
experiences are closely linked to campus climate, which, according to student
accounts, often reflects and perpetuates the same systems of oppression, such as
cisheteronormativity, machismo. This student-centered research project illustrates
the importance of intersectionally-minded practices and policymaking that
tend to students’ needs, intersecting identities and lived experiences. For some
students, our research findings illustrated a clear shared experience of the family
as a barrier to student success and personal wellbeing across race, gender, and
sexuality, we will propose the need for Equity, Inclusion and Diversity (EID) work
at universities to develop a focus, strategies, and resources to address the family
as an institution of social and cultural inequity.
Pages: 28 - 59 | Author: Sara A Ramirez
Title: Integrating Fractured Subjects in Virginia Grise’s blu
Abstract: This article draws attention to Virginia Grise’s blu as a unique queer Chicana
feminist cultural production that uniquely upholds Coyolxauhqui consciousness as
recognition of the subjection of Chicanxs to oppressive material conditions and a
state of brokenness and longing/desire. Compared to other texts that incorporate
the Coyolxauhqui myth, blu achieves a more holistic interpretation of Coyolxauhqui’s
symbolism by inviting us to think about the brokenness of not only Chicanas and
Chicanxs but also Chicanos. It does so by inciting us to imagine experiences that
constitute what I am preliminarily conceptualizing as “fractured subjects,” or people
who have inherited intergenerational racial, gender-based, and neoliberal violence as a
result of the effects of coloniality. I offer this concept in order to enter a conversation
about the fractured sense experienced by such people and to identify these groups
and their very real confrontation with poverty, discrimination, and devaluation. I
argue that fractured subjects emerge in Grise’s dramatization of different registers
of war that have the potential to “break” them, which include gang violence in the
barrio, domestic violence within the home, the Iraq war being played out in the
background of the play, and the memory of the celestial war between Coyolxauhqui
and Huitzilopochtli. Grise encourages a parallel between fractured subjects and
Coyolxauhqui, the moon god who represents the trauma of fragmentation by
oppressive conditions such as violence and patriarchy. In this way, Grise offers political
commentary on the “healing” of these broken figures by illuminating their respective
longings for wholeness through a process that Gloria Anzaldúa terms the Coyolxauhqui
imperative. Ultimately, Grise heeds Anzaldúa’s (or Coyolxauhqui’s) call to craft new
narratives and thus reminds us of the possibilities of an integrative Chicana feminist
approach to the relationship between the sexes vis-à-vis neoliberalism.
Pages: 60 - 84 | Authors: Stephanie Hernandez Rivera and Adrianna González Ybarra
Title: Moving Towards Wholeness: Latina Doctoral Students Platicando to Heal Body-Mind-Spirit-Heart
Abstract: During our time as Latina doctoral students, we were often reminded of the
ways we were relegated to the outskirts of “academic” ways of knowing and doing.
As a cultural practice akin to our communities, we engaged one another in plática
to explore and reflect upon these realities. We came to understand how we were
transformed and changed through platicando, as plática allowed us to uncover how
we had contributed to and resisted against academic experiences and encounters
that were racist and Eurocentric. Within this project, we provide insights on the roots
of our epistemological perspectives and engage in a wholistic understanding of
ways of knowing, being, doing, and feeling (body-mind-spirit-heart). We also describe
how we sought to engage in research processes to develop and build supportive
communities. As we endeavored the aforementioned , we also came to understand the
use of plática as a liberatory tool and methodology, specifically as it relates to healing,
reciprocity, coalition-building, and the ability to engage in border-crossing theorizing.
Pages: 86 - 118 | Author: Grisel Y Acosta
Title: EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Transcending through Ritual
Abstract: none available
Pages: 122 - 123 | Author: Ana Arellano
Title: La Octava
Abstract: none available
Pages: 124 - 137 | Author: Eloisa Arenas
Title: Noni
Abstract: none available
Pages: 138 - 140 | Author: Julia C Gaytan
Title: CREATIVE WRITING
Imported Sands and Suitcase
Abstract: none available
Pages: 142 - 147 | Authors: Angélica G Villagrana Casillas and Amanda Palacios
Title: REVIEW
Borderland Mothers’ Narratives of Perseverance: A Compilation of Autoethnographies and Testimonios on Mothering in Oppressive and Violent Borderland Spaces
Abstract: Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Oppression and
Transborder Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border edited by Cynthia Bejarano
and Maria Cristina Morales, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press,
2024. Pp. 368. $30.00 (Paperback), $30.00 (e-book).
Pages: 150 - 152 |
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