“Torture Tradition” by Barbara Carrasco
The contributors in this issue speak through the lens of looking back and taking stock with frankness more so than nostalgia. The pieces brought together in this issue show that the path of breaking silence involves fortifying oneself against negative talk, downfalls, plateaus, secrets, and other moments that masquerade as failure but are actually periods of wood-shedding in which we are working to transform struggle into fuel for our future interventions.
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Tiffany Ana López and Karen Mary Davalos
Mid-Career Survey
ESSAYS
Carmelita “Rosie” Castañeda
Ni De Aquí, Ni de Allá
Marivel Danielson
The Birdy and the Bees: Queer Chicana Girlhood in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings
Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache/Jumano Apache)
Space, Position, and Imperialism in South Texas (Dr. Eloisa García Tamez v. U.S. Secretary Michael Chertoff, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
POETRY
Natalia Crespo
Romper El Silencio (Para Joyce Tolliver)
Lorena Duarte
Flint Tongue
Lorena Duarte
My M
CREATIVE WRITING
Reid Gómez
Introducing California Wasn’t Good For Us: A Novel
IN REVIEW
Angharad N. Valdivia
T¿Qué Onda?
Aída Hurtado and Janelle M. Silva
The Road Less Traveled: The Erotic Journeys of Mexican Immigrants
