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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
