CELESTE DE LUNA is a Chicana/Latina/Tejana artist residing in Brownsville and San Antonio, Texas. De Luna is a lecturer in the School of Art at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley and is a community artist, mother, and educator. De Luna is a cofounder of the socially engaged art collective … [Read more...] about Celeste De Luna
C/LS 19(2) Spring 2020
As has often been stated by Chicana/x, Latina/x, and Indigenous women both before and after the establishment of Chicana/Latina Studies, there is incontrovertible power in telling one’s own story, one’s own truth. Perhaps, no story is more distinctive to the Latina/o/x experience than that of … [Read more...] about C/LS 19(2) Spring 2020
C/LS 19(1) Fall 2019
As scholars of the borderlands, as teorístas of our own lives and bodies, we recognize the discourse used to denigrate, demoralize, and dehumanize our communities as reflections of Eurocentric, imperial, white supremacist, and colonial epistemologies that daily attempt to annihilate our ways of … [Read more...] about C/LS 19(1) Fall 2019
Writing Workshop and Creative Writing Workshop 2020
Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social annually sponsors a writing workshop at the Summer Institute. The MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshop is one of our formal methods of creating a feminist editorial praxis in the publication of work by and about … [Read more...] about Writing Workshop and Creative Writing Workshop 2020
Emilia Cruz
Emilia Cruz is a Chicana artist residing in Ventura County, California. Cruz is currently enrolled in Art Center College of Design working towards a BFA in illustration. She teaches art classes for children at Plaza de la Raza in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles. Cruz has recently been commissioned by … [Read more...] about Emilia Cruz
