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Chicana/Latina Studies
volume 25 number 1 (Fall 2025)
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Author: Citlali Delgado
Title: ARTIST STATEMENT
Extended Truths
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Pages: 10 - 15 | Authors: Judith Flores Carmona and Katia McEvoy-Holguín
Title: EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
From Esoteric to Collective Resistencia: Punks, Malandrinas, Testimonio Pedagogues and Critical Ethnographers
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Pages: 18 - 27 | Authors: Sharim Hannegan-Martinez, Stephanie Vega Gallardo and Alexandria Rodriguez
Title: La Malandrina as Maestra: The Pedagogical Contributions of Mujeres Malas
Abstract: Utilizing autohistoría-teoría, I explore the historicity of badwoman
archetypes which have been used to label Latinas who do not perform or adhere
to race, class, or gendered forms of respectability politics which demand women
be silent and deferential. This paper argues the myriad ways in which these
sensibilities that are often critiqued and misunderstood are in fact worthy of
pedagogical examination. I turn specifically to the malandr ina archetype because
it offers important contemporary implications for educators who seek examples
of what it looks like to be more culturally responsive to the needs of urban youth
in schools and disruptive to the institutions that harm them. Drawing on my time
as a high-school teacher, I engaged in pláticas with two former students who selfidentify
as “malas”—to conceptualize what I am referring to as a malandrina
pedagogy. Ultimately, I, alongside my students, argue that these sensibilities,
which have been deemed “bad,” are not only worthy of examination but lend
themselves to culturally sustaining and liberatory teaching.
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Pages: 30 - 59 | Author: Melissa “Mel” Espinoza
Title: Punks y Otros Atravesados : Punk Borderlands Consciousness and Ethos
Abstract: This article analyzes, critiques, and uncovers how punk has survived as
an ideology of oppressed peoples, and sought to connect how punk has thrived in
the borderlands of the United States, focusing on a uniquely Chicane experience.
I found it difficult to translate a punk consciousness through literary means until
I was introduced to the work of Kathy Acker. With Acker, I felt I had found a style
of writing that resonated with me. Acker writes with a sense of wit, anger, sarcasm,
confidence, sheer sexuality, and resilience that foregrounds punk. However, one
of the main issues with a punk ethos is the lack of representat ion of people of
color, specifically of a Mexican and Chicane presence. This is despite the fact that
we make a large subculture along the border lands, including El Paso, Texas and
Los Angeles, California as major hubs. I sought to identify how punk functions as
a means of expression in a borderlands space, a space that can and does utiliz e
punk as a language of oppressed peoples. I also wanted to celebrate the aesthetic
choices of punk and investigate the core ethics behind these choices and how they
transform among fronterizos to create a unique resistance.
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Pages: 60 - 85 | Authors: Bianca N Haro and Patricia A Martín
Title: The Guiding Principles of a Chicana/Latina Feminista Critical Ethnography: A Collective Enseñanza from Nepantleras
Abstract: As two Chicana/Latina nepantleras who use critical ethnography to work with
Chicana/Latina high school students, we have wrestled with the following questions: Can
we engage in research beyond the colonial project of extraction, rigor, and objectivity? Does
critical ethnography embrace our Chicana/Latina feminist sensibilities? While a growing
number of Chicana/Latina scholars employ critical ethnography to better understand
the lived realities of people and disrupt power dynamics between the researcher and
participants, many simultaneously use a Chicana/Latina feminist methodology (e.g., pláticas,
testimonio), thus creating a distinction between critical ethnography and a Chicana/
Latina informed ethnographic methodology. For this reason, the article tracks the use of
critical ethnography among Chicana/Latina researchers and considers a Chicana feminist
epistemology to bring forth what we conceptualize as Chicana/Latina Feminista Critical
Ethnography (CLFCE) with six guiding principles. We consider a CLFCE an opportunity to
bring forth a methodology that extends our ways of knowing and being as Chicana/Latina
researchers rooted in humanizing research practices with and for research collaborators.
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Pages: 86 - 115 | Authors: Alejandra Elenes, Rebecca Burciaga and Judith Flores Carmona
Title: Testimonio Pedagogies: Reflexiones and Ethical Challenges
Abstract: ADDITIONAL AUTHOR: Dolores Delgado Bernal
Addressing Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s (1990; 2002) call to weave together
intellectual, political, and spiritual work, this article includes four reflexiones of scholars
who have engaged in and with testimonio as signature pedagogies (Benmayor
2012), each for well over a decade. While their reflexiones demonstrate pedagogical
opportunities, they also center ethical challenges of using testimonio in undergraduate
and graduate classrooms. In an effort to prevent reproducing oppressive forces in the
classroom, the authors highlight tensions related to issues of vulnerability, reciprocity,
narrative authority, trauma, and neoliberal conditions within the university. Rather than
offer prescribed solutions, the authors offer consejos that spring from our reflexiones
on how to prepare for and mitigate these challenges.
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Pages: 116 - 141 | Authors: Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Nellie Graham and Rosa D Manzo
Title: “We Have Always Been Resilient, We Resist:” Using YPAR to Critically Explore Resilience in Farmworking Communities in California
Abstract: ADDITIONAL AUTHORS: Patrice Hill, Denisha Coco Blossom, Felipe Perez,
Nestor Perez, Melissa Comstock, Tyson Mallinson,
Pablo Martinez, Esmeralda Mandujano,
Maria Dod, and Jacklyn Skye Kelty
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Pages: 142 - 176 | Author: Veronica Menaldi
Title: Esotericism for Empowerment: From Andalusi Occult Theories to Latinx Brujería
Abstract: Interest in esoteric and magical practices has become more visible in
mainstream society in recent years. At the core of so many contemporary practices is
the importance of love and healing as a form of self-declaration and social revolution.
These ideas mirror those in premodern sources that gained popularity in medieval Spain
like the Picatrix. In teasing out these often overlooked connections, in allowing the past
to coexist with the present, we can further nuance the rich esoteric interconnectivity at
the core of spiritual activism and positive brujería that Latinx practitioners in particular
are currently embodying. Drawing from literary examples both past and present, I
explore the unifying esoteric theory regarding the power of love and micro/macrocosm
interconnectivity in premodern sources as well as contemporary manuals.
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Pages: 178 - 207 | Author: Mariela Nuñez-Janes
Title: I Am Not Anyone's Citizen
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Pages: 212 - 231 | Author: Lizbette Ocasio-Russe
Title: The Elixir
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Pages: 232 - 252 | Author: Jessica Lopez Lyman
Title: REVIEW: Uplifting Joy
Abstract: REVIEW OF:
Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media by Kristie Soares.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2023. Pp. 275. $28.00 (paper).
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