2024 marks the 30th anniversary of Zapatismo, the indigenous Mexican movement for dignity against colonialism. Conversationalists will discuss examples of the distinctively disruptive language of Zapatista antiracist activism and identify its resonances and differences with the terminology of spiritual activism introduced by Gloria Anzaldúa, whose passing twenty years ago is remembered on May 15.
Rosa Garza-Mourino MA, Media and Cultural Studies, Mexico City, serves the Undergraduate Studies program in LA as a transdisciplinary educator, scholar and academic administrator driven by curiosity and difference. Uses a social justice lens to teach cultural analysis methods and immersive learning pedagogies applicable to the fields of film, media, arts-based activism, and cities, especially Los Angeles as a learning context. As Director of External Academic Partnerships is in charge of the Internship Program, community engagement initiatives, and articulation liaison with 2 year local colleges. Volunteers as co-chair of the AULA Diversity Inclusion committee, and as a member of the Messy Conversations planning team.
Tanjerine Vei received their Ph.D. and M.Ed. in Education, Culture, and Society. Their research focuses on developing pedagogies that promote critical consciousness and healing, spiritual activism, and community building. Their dissertation, “Queer Spiritual Activism: Nepantlera Performativity and Transformative Pedagogies,” is a critical, decolonial participatory action research (C/DPAR) project. C/DPAR is research conducted for communities by communities using a decolonial ethical framework. In this project, a team of activist educators traced the presence of underlying oppressive forces that can manifest in activist approaches to teaching and learning. They used spiritual activist and decolonial ideologies to guide undoing and (re)creating their educational practices in an ongoing process of studied change. Tanjerine is also a visual artist and gardener.
This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga
ISBN: 9781438488295
Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, "the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, and sexuality--systemic to women of color oppression and liberation."Reissued here, forty years after its inception, this anniversary edition contains a new preface by Moraga reflecting on Bridge's "living legacy" and the broader community of women of color activists, writers, and artists whose enduring contributions dovetail with its radical vision. Further features help set the volume's historical context, including an extended introduction by Moraga from the 2015 edition, a statement written by Gloria Anzaldúa in 1983, and visual art produced during the same period by Betye Saar, Ana Mendieta, Yolanda López, and others, curated by their contemporary, artist Celia Herrera Rodríguez. Bridge continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism, one that can effectively adapt to and help inform an understanding of the changing economic and social conditions of women of color in the United States and throughout the world.
Borderlands = La frontera : the new mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
ISBN: 9781951874025
"This is the fifth edition of Borderlands/ La Frontera. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us"-- Provided by publisher.
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader by Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating, Walter D Mignolo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, & Irene Silverblatt
ISBN: 9780822391272
Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer theories and identities. As an editor of three anthologies, including the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, she played an equally vital role in developing an inclusionary, multicultural feminist movement. A versatile author, Anzaldúa published poetry, theoretical essays, short stories, autobiographical narratives, interviews, and children's books. Her work, which has been included in more than 100 anthologies to date, has helped to transform academic fields including American, Chicano/a, composition, ethnic, literary, and women's studies.This reader-which provides a representative sample of the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing that Anzaldúa produced during her thirty-year career-demonstrates the breadth and philosophical depth of her work. While the reader contains much of Anzaldúa's published writing (including several pieces now out of print), more than half the material has never before been published. This newly available work offers fresh insights into crucial aspects of Anzaldúa's life and career, including her upbringing, education, teaching experiences, writing practice and aesthetics, lifelong health struggles, and interest in visual art, as well as her theories of disability, multiculturalism, pedagogy, and spiritual activism. The pieces are arranged chronologically; each one is preceded by a brief introduction. The collection includes a glossary of Anzaldúa's key terms and concepts, a timeline of her life, primary and secondary bibliographies, and a detailed index.
The Anzaldúan theory handbook by AnaLouise Keating
ISBN: 9781478023555
"In The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook AnaLouise Keating provides a comprehensive investigation of the foundational theories, methods, and philosophies of Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Through archival research and close readings of Anzaldúa's unpublished and published writings, Keating offers a biographical-intellectual sketch of Anzaldúa's, investigates her writing process and theory-making methods, and excavates her archival manuscripts. Keating focuses on the breadth of Anzaldúa's theoretical oeuvre, including Anzaldúa's lesser-known concepts of autohistoria y autohistoria-teoría, nos/otras, geographies of selves, and El Mundo Zurdo. By investigating those dimensions of Anzaldúa's theories, writings, and methods that have received less critical attention and by exploring the interconnections between these overlooked concepts and her better-known theories, Keating opens additional areas of investigation into Anzaldúa's work and models new ways to "do" Anzaldúan theory. This book also includes extensive definitions, genealogies, and explorations of eighteen key Anzaldúan theories as well as an annotated bibliography of hundreds of Anzaldúa's unpublished manuscripts."-- Provided by publisher.