“Jackie Chavez” by Delilah Montoya
The scholarly essays, creative writing, art, interviews, and reviews in this issue show how productive transformational projects and the voices and images imbued within them serve to shape the field of Chicana/Latina studies.
ARTISTS’ STATEMENTS
Malcriada Aesthetics/Bad Girl Realities
Delilah Montoya
Veme Queering Phoenix: Queer Identity in Metropolitan Phoenix
Elsa Bea Velasquez
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Voices in Dialogue and the Power of Collectivity
C. Alejandra Elenes and Gloria Cuádraz
ESSAYS
Revitalizing Poetics: Latin@s Reshape South Minneapolis
Jessica Lopez Lyman
Queering La Familia: A Redefinition of Mothering, Immigration, and Education
Norma A. Marrun
Vamos a Platicar: The Contours of Platicas as Chicana Latina Feminist Methodology
Cindy O. Fierros and Dolores Delgado Bernal
Latina Faculty/Staff Testimonios on Scholarship Production
Aurora Chang, Vanessa Fonseca, Lilia Soto, and Dolores Saucedo Cardona
IN DIALOGUE
Recreating the Yardstick: An Interview with Delilah Montoya
Monica Montelongo Flores
CREATIVE WRITING
Editor’s Commentary
Saying and Doing, Editing and Writing
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
Prose
A Serenade for Chago
Marcela Fuentes
El Puente
Angie Chabram
IN REVIEW
War Echoes: Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
Micaela J. Díaz-Sánchez
Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Youth
Marcela García-Castañón
Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles
Yessica García Hernández
