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...]
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...]
C/LS 18(2) Spring 2019
To the Newlyweds The deaths of children in detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border have called attention to the ways the U.S. continues to uphold settler colonial borders and policies that criminalize migrants as “illegal” and dehumanize them as unworthy of basic human rights. As … [Read more...]
C/LS 18(1) Fall 2018
Building on the legacy of our ancestors and the activist genealogy of MALCS, we reinforced our commitment to continue this work with the release of this issue as well as creating “work that matters.” Chicana scholars, creative writers, and artists in this issue offer a perspective celebrating the … [Read more...]
C/LS 17(2) Spring 2018
Driven by the irrepressible need to assert our voice, our bodies, our politics, our cultural practices, and our pain into public, private, and academic spaces that often negate our presence and perspectives, the Chicana scholars and creative writers in this issue offer interventions that complicate … [Read more...]
