“Detail from Becoming the Spectacle: The Virgen de Guadalupe, Aztec Goddess, the Mariachi, and the Donkey Lady, 2011” by Más Rudas
The pieces in this issue aim to document and record Chicana/Latina contributions to the creation of knowledge, making visible our expressive, narrative, and cultural practices bringing to life our ways of knowing and creating.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Ruth Leonela Buentello, Sarah Castillo, Kristin Gamez, and Mari Hernandez
Más Rudas: To Be Tough, to Be Defiant, and Without Apology
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Josie Méndez-Negrete
Making Our Journeys Visible and the Poetics of Social Justice
Tifffany Ana López
Conclusion of Service: Reflecting on Seven Years of Collaborative Work in Chicana/Latina Feminist Editorial Practice
ESSAYS
Renee Beeton, Loretta L Jones and Genevieve Canales
A Case Study: Science Identity Formation of Mexican American Females in High School Chemistry
Patrisia Gonzales
Ant Medicine: A Narrative Ecology
María Antonietta Berriozábal
Book Excerpt From: María: Daughter of Immigrants
CREATIVE WRITING
Cristina Nava, Sara Guerrero and Elizabeth Isela Szekeresh
Slip of the Tongue—A Latina Performance Project About Personal and Cultural Healing, with an Introduction by Tiffany Ana López
POETRY
Viktoria Valenzuela
Monterrey Street
Viktoria Valenzuela
The Milk of Arizona
Viktoria Valenzuela
Mic Check!
Viktoria Valenzuela
Ice Falls
Esmeralda Bernal
Marginalia
Esmeralda Bernal
A Man Can Love
IN REVIEW
Larissa M Mercado-López
Cherríe Moraga’s Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010
Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
Racializing Queerness, Queering Nationalism
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