“Politic Born of Necessity”: Latina and Latinx Feminists Remembering Genealogies, Imagining Futures

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this intergenerational session, we gather Latina and Latinx scholar-activists from education; gender and women’s studies; and anthropology to re-member our commitments to Chicana/Latina women of color feminist genealogies and Latinx trans feminisms; share our research-activism; and imagine Latina/x feminist futures for transformative curriculum studies. Our session is a “politic born out of necessity,” (Anzaldúa & Moraga, 1981), as we believe curriculum is a project of decolonial feminisms (Lugones, 2010); critical race/feminist currere (Taliaferro-Baszile, 2015); and transformative justice. We join our “theory in the flesh” (Anzaldúa & Moraga, 1981) as queer, trans, and cis scholar-activists who engage in “pedagogies of refusal” (Tuck & Yang, 2014) with trans* and queer youth of color; bilingual teachers and students; and Latina girls.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 6: De/Colonization and Transformative Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Ileana Jiménez, Stony Brook University - SUNY

Papers

• Learning Coalition, Finding Difficult Solidarities: Latinx Feminist Thought and Pedagogies of Intersectional Racial Justice - Sofia A. Villenas, Cornell University

• Faithful Witnessing and Resistance in Tight Spaces: Notes From the Field - Cindy Cruz, University of Arizona

• Remembering to Streetwalk: Nonbinary Epistemologies and Intersubjective Theorizing - Omi Salas-SantaCruz, University of Utah

• Theory in the Flesh as Digital Activism: AfroLatina Trans-Femme Resisting at School - Ileana Jiménez, Stony Brook University - SUNY

• South Texas Teachers’ Narrativas de Bilingüismo and Biliteracy: Languages “of the Flesh” - Patricia Sanchez, University of Texas - San Antonio

• Composing Teorías: Latina Girls Cultivating Their Worlds Through Art, Writing, and Storytelling - Tracey Terece Flores, University of Texas at Austin