Zine-ing Latinidad: Zinemaking, Latinidades, and the Muxerista Pedagogical Possibilities with/ in the Graduate Classroom.

• In Event: Navigating graduate education and opportunities

Abstract

The graduate classroom is a fraught place, often instilled with the undercurrents of colonial logics and neoliberal desires. Within this understanding, how can we make the graduate classroom a space for communally situated and collaborative educational praxis? This paper brings forth the experiences of 5 graduate students and one professor through a plática methodology to discuss their final projects – a zine. During Spring 2025, each graduate student took a class called Critical Latinx Educational Studies, where the focal assignment was designed to be a semester-long zine project. Guided by the theoretical frameworks of muxerista-joteria pedagogies and nepantla, we argue that zine-making is a site of educational liberation, and a place where individual, communal, and reflexive commitments are realized.

Authors

• Pablo Montes, Texas Christian University

• Jose Omar Serna, Texas Christian University

• Garrison Daly, Texas Christian University

• Maria O'Connor, Texas Christian University

• Katherine Crowe, Texas Christian University

• Anna Block, Texas Christian University