2020 has not had a shortage of trauma, hardship, loss, and injustice. From a cataclysmic protean and inexorable virus that has—and will continue—to devastate Brown/Black/Indigenous communities, to repeated televised murders of Black and Brown men and women sanctioned by a white supremacist police … [Read more...] about C/LS 20(1) Fall 2020
Issues
Celeste De Luna
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
C/LS 18(2) Spring 2019
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 Chicana/Latina feminist … [Read more...] about C/LS 18(2) Spring 2019
