“Esta Locura Tiene Raices”: The Grief and Causes of Disruptive Rhetoricians

• In Event: Genealogies of Terror: Revisiting Violent Narratives and Vestiges of Disposability

Abstract

The adjectives of non-normative, Brown, and vocal critics of the University are characterized as threatening, insatiable and ravenous. Unhuman.

This paper follows the practices of The Latina Feminist Group to reveal the precariousness and traumas of graduate students. This testimonio recounts events during my first-year of graduate school that included a white-male graduate student telling me that the first time he saw me, I “scared the shit out of” him.Taking up the work of Juana Maria Rodriguez and Bernadette Calafell helps to answer what happens when we speak our truth with our bodies and language.

Presenter

• Alejandra I. Ramirez, University of Arizona