Testimonios as Resistance? Coyolxauhqui Imperative: Diffracting Identities to Center Our Voices From the Margins

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Intersectional Feminist Ways of Knowing (Table 37)

Abstract

We are Latina special education teachers, doctoral candidates, and future teacher educators with ties to various Latin American countries. We came together within a doctoral cohort in South Florida that began simultaneously with the commencement of the pandemic, when marginalized groups, K–12, and higher education institutions experienced more exclusionary practices with the onslaught of legislation in Florida. The authors navigate and negotiate different theoretical frameworks and the post-theoretical concept of diffraction to explore testimonio and interrogate how their intersectional identities fit into academic research, what constitutes theory, and what can be data and research. What decisions are made, and how are they negotiated before a study begins? How does one resist and persist in spaces not made for them?

Authors

• Alejandra Amaris Fernández Morgado, Florida International University

• Iggy V. Monsalve, Florida International University

• Maria A. Silva, Florida International University

• Martha Lorena Hernández Flores, Florida International University

• Ana Paula Fabian Freire, Florida International University

• Arianna C. Barroso, Florida International University

• Norma P. Urquiza, Florida International University