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CHORDS OF ESPERANZA
Queering Biliteracy, Centering Justicia
Presented by A Queer Endeavor & the BUENO Center
A two-day summit of creating sinfonías of solidarity & educational equity.
A two-day summit of creating sinfonías of solidarity & educational equity.
Across the country, educators, students, and communities are enduring attacks on bilingual education, inclusive curriculum, restrictions on queer and trans visibility, and policies that criminalize trans, genderqueer, immigrant and newcomer students and families. Yet schools remain powerful sites where, everyday, educators cultivate esperanza, build solidarities, center cariño, craft futures, and honor all students for who they are. We know these efforts are currently under threat, but we don’t have to endure them alone. Together, we can rally to orchestrate melodies for solidarity, strength, and perseverance.
Chords of Esperanza: Queering Biliteracy & Centering Justicia is a gathering for educators, scholars, community leaders, and youth-serving adults. When different movements and traditions come together, we create something stronger, more resonant, and more durable than any single note can strike. Together, we will bridge bilingual education, immigrant and newcomer justice, and queer pedagogy to ask and answer the questions, “How can we orchestrate sinfonías nuevas of solidarity in education? What new chords can we create by coming together?”
Why Chords?
Why Chords?
We know that, more than ever, we need each other.
We know that, more than ever, we need each other.
Our goal is come together to create coalitions across lines of difference that cultivate meaningful change in education. Moving beyond equity rhetoric, and we will co-design and -co-create opportunities to foster transformative educational justice for those who need it most.
Our goal is come together to create coalitions across lines of difference that cultivate meaningful change in education. Moving beyond equity rhetoric, and we will co-design and -co-create opportunities to foster transformative educational justice for those who need it most.
We will gather educators from all levels and places to forge solidarity across roles, content areas, and school lines, ensuring that every educator is equipped to challenge oppression and advocate for a future of hope (esperanza).
We will gather educators from all levels and places to forge solidarity across roles, content areas, and school lines, ensuring that every educator is equipped to challenge oppression and advocate for a future of hope (esperanza).
Who is Chords for?
Who is Chords for?
Teachers and educators at all levels
School staff and support
School leaders
Community organizers and justice-oriented education advocates
University students
Researchers
What will I take with me?
What will I take with me?
Classroom tools and resources from hands-on workshops on biliteracy, translanguaging, and culturally sustaining teaching
Insights and frameworks from interactive sessions on queer justice, identity, and community in education
Artifacts from creative spaces for storytelling, healing, and artistic expression
Testimonios and to-dos from youth-led panels and conversations centering student voice and leadership
Practical tools for advocacy, policy navigation, and educator agency
Wisdom from community-rooted sessions uplifting immigrant, multilingual, and intersectional experiences
Together, we'll explore questions like:
How might queering biliteracy help us challenge rigid binaries (of language, identity, belonging, or family) that marginalize our students and ourselves?
In what ways can schools become spaces that honor the fluidity of language, culture, and gender/sexuality, resisting pressures to conform to monolingual, cisnormative, and heteronormative norms?
How can immigrant, newcomer, and queer students’ and educators’ stories, literacies, and leadership inform coalition-building practices that sustain intersectional movements for justice in education?
What possibilities open up when educators connect transformative pedagogies and critical, queer, bilingual, and/or immigrant-affirming practices to create spaces where our identities and full selves are celebrated as sources of collective strength?
How can educators, families, and communities collectively resist policies that attempt to silence languages, restrict queer/trans visibility, or criminalize immigrant students?
How can we remix existing ideas and strengths to find more powerful melodies together? What might that remixing look like in the curriculum?
What does coming together across communities, identities, and issues require of you, me, and us?
Join us!
Join us!
July 15th & 16th, 2026
CEC Early College
CEC Early College
2650 Eliot St, Denver, CO 80211
2650 Eliot St, Denver, CO 80211
Let us know if you'll be attending!
Let us know if you'll be attending!
CONTACT US: chordsofesperanza@gmail.com
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