“Amor Alien” by Laura Molina
This issue is about space. The authors record and analyze the ways women of color create a homeplace out of virtually nothing—to record memories, to acknowledge, and to celebrate their racialized and gendered bodies. Chicanas/Latinas create our own spaces, produce knowledge, and invent new modes of human dignity.
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Karen Mary Davalos and Alicia Partnoy
Editors’ Commentary
ESSAYS
Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
The Cyberborderlands: Surfing the Web for Xicanidad
Juana Suárez
Prácticas de Solidaridad: Los Documentales de Marta Rodríguez
Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler
“She’s the Dreamwork Inside Someone Else’s Skull”: La Malinche and the Battles Waged for Her Autonomy
Rose Rodriguez
Tortillas y Cuentos: Grabbing My Two Worlds with My Own Two Hands
Florentina Alegre/Mujeres Creando
Solamente Somos un Tumulto de Defensa para Facilitar el Paro
Lara Medina
Chicanas/Latinas and Catholicism under Pope Benedict XVI
CREATIVE WRITING
Nora Strejilevich
A Luis Se Lo Llevaron Para Que No Suceda Más
POETRY
Rosalía Solórzano Torres
Ausencia
Norma Alarcón
Death Awakens Us
