“Artist Sarah Ortegon and Buffalo Heart” (2016) by Sarah Ortegon
The articles, creative writing, artistic production, and book reviews in this issue bring to the fore the voices and ways of being of Indigenous women, immigrant mothers/activists, and lesbian immigrant street vendors. In doing so, the authors actively engage in an in-depth critique of colonization and genocide, inhumane immigration policy, and economic exploitation.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Four Directions
Sarah Ortegon
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
We are all ‘Under one Moon’
Gloria H. Cuádraz and C. Alejandra Elenes
ESSAYS
Uneven Exchanges: Borderlands Violence and the Search for Peace at Sand Creek
Marisa Elena Duarte
Voicing Citizenship: Undocumented Women and Social Media
Jillian Baez
Heterosexualization and the State: The Poetry of Gloria Anzaldúa
Ariana Vigil
Bar Tasco: Latina Immigrant Vendors’ Mestiza Consciousness
Lorena Muñoz
CREATIVE WRITING
Editor’s Commentary
Words to Heal
Patricia Trujillo
Poetry
Handkerchief de Algodón
Yolanda Nieves
Sojourner
Yolanda Nieves
Sueño is Reality
Yolanda Nieves
Where the metal meets my hand
Isabel Kathryn Ball
The Last Story
Anita Rodriguez
Mi Tía: Stories of a Murdered Scholar in Guatemala
Lydia A. Saravia
IN REVIEW
Barrio Dreams: Selected Plays by Silviana Wood
Cordelia E. Barrera
Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship
Elisa Facio
