“The Wall, 2008” by Linda Arreola
There are two patterns we see characterizing the works that comprise this double issue: vivencias and critical witnessing. It also provides a powerful structuring thread for the works gathered together in the first section, which also collectively engage with caring as both a political and politicized practice. The works in the second section of this volume all engage in the practice of critical witnessing as they concentrate on the performative forces of lived experience in the making of social change. They explore how our relationships—as they run the spectrum from fiscal and emotional to political and intellectual exchanges—provide the grounding point for our making, feeling, and doing of theory and politics.
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Tiffany Ana López and Karen Mary Davalos
Knowing, Feeling, Doing: The Epistemology of Chicana/Latina Studies
Magdalena Maiz-Peña, guest editor
Editorial Poetics: Nopalito words and MALCS feminist editorial practice
ESSAYS
Rosa Furumoto
Nuestras Vivencias: Chicana Parental Caring in Schools
Rosana Blanco-Cano
Geografias Alternativas: Una Mujer Desesperada (1991) de Petrona de la Cruz Cruz y El Grupo Teatral FOOMA
M. Bianet Castellanos
Building Communities of Sentiment: Remittances and Emotions among Maya Migrants
Barbara Carrasco
Walking Through the Inaugural Mural
Joelle Guzman
Beyond Rhetoric and Theory: A Graduate Student Activist on Witnessing the Inauguration
CREATIVE WRITING
Carla Trujillo
The Saints of Santa Fe
Monica Palacios
The Oh! Show: Old and Horny
Thelma Reyna
The Heavens Weep For Us
Raquel Gutierrez
Malathion: Low Human Toxicity
POETRY
Rusty Barceló
I Can Fly
Rusty Barceló
I Like Women
Rusty Barceló
Sister, Sister
IN REVIEW
Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
Tomboy
Leticia Oseguera
Education in Everyday Life
Karma R. Chávez
Homegirls
Mary Pardo
Making Democracy: New Generations of Activism in Los Angeles
