Strength of Harvest, by Nivia Gonzalez
The articles, creative writing, artistic production, and book reviews in this issue bring to fore new insight on subjectivity, voice and space for the many roles women play as mother, activists, musicians, writers and more. The contributions in this issue resist the impact of neoliberalism, interrogate restrictive axes of identity, and validate generational knowledge and trauma. The need to heal ourselves, critique oppressive structures, and validate the familial and communal wisdom are especially relevant during these relentlessly trying political times.
Contents
ARTIST STATEMENT
La Semilla Sembrada: Life Lessons through the Art and Times of Nivia Gonzalez
Regina Antelo and Selena Watson
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Returning to the Tejas borderlands: New conocimientos for social change
Sonya M. Alemán and Lilliana P. Saldaña
ESSAYS
Border Arte As Medicine: Healing Beyond The Confines Of Our Skin
Amanda Ellis
The Muxerista Portraitist: Engaging Portraiture And Chicana Feminist Theories In Qualitative Research
Alma Itzé Flores
Re-Mapping Queer Desire(s) on Greater Los Angeles: The Decolonial Topographies of Aurora Guerrero and Dalila Paola Méndez
Micaela Jamaica Diaz-Sanchez
CREATIVE WRITING
EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
Writing for our Lives: Genres of Resistance
Patricia Marina Trujillo
Hands
El Rebozo
Alexandra Hernandez
New Mexico Needs to Tap into the Spirit of Matanza
Adriann Barboa
LAHDRA Introduction
CMRR—Chemical Metallurgy Research and Replacement (Nuclear Facility)
Beata Tsosie-Peña
Our Education Will Not Save Us: A Testimoniolista’s Tale of the Violence of Value
Shantel Martinez
Mothering While Brown in White Spaces, Or, When I Took My Son to Octavia Butler’s Exhibit
Cecilia Caballero
Chi Chis Out!
Dolores Moreno-Valles
IN REVIEW
Indigeneity and Criminality in the Américas: Multiple Injustices: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America
Floridalma Boj Lopez
New Ways to Research Nahua Culture-making: The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832
Rebeca Figueroa
This Is the New Chicano Man: Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities
Maria C. González
