C/LS 16(2) Spring 2017

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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. We thank Alejandra Elenes and Gloria H. Cuádraz for all their work and dedication to see this issue come to fruition.

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Memorial, 2014, by Annie López

Memorial, 2014, by Annie López

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. We thank Alejandra Elenes and Gloria H. Cuádraz for all their work and dedication to see this issue come to fruition.


ARTIST STATEMENT

An Altered Point of View
Annie López

EDITORS’ COMMENTARY

Speaking to the Times 
Alejandra Elenes and Gloria H. Cuádraz

ESSAYS

“Our Labor Is Our Prayer, Our Mother Is Our Offering”: A Chicana M(other)work Framework for Collective Resistance 
Chicana M(other)work Collective: Michelle Téllez, Cecilia Caballero, Judith C. Pérez-Torres, Christina Vega, Yvette Martínez-Vu

Contestaciones: The Music Genre of Cyber Hociconas 
Esther Díaz Martín

La identidad femenina en la narrativa de Irene Vilar: Impossible Motherhood: A Testimony of an Abortion Addict
Margarita Pignataro

Trans Chol@s, the Coloniality of Gender, and Sexual Violence in Helena Maria Viramontes’ Their Dogs Came with Them
Araceli Esparza

Voicing for Space in Academe: Testimonios of Chicana Communication Professors 
Mari Castañeda, Claudia A. Anguiano, Sonya Alemán

CREATIVE WRITING

Editor’s Commentary 

Making Poems 
Patricia Trujillo

Poetry 

Mother, Father, Child of the Americas 
Yarubo Americano 
Meeting Chicago in Spain 
Grisel Y. Acosta

El Arbol 
Amor Desengañado 
Rita Cano Alcalá

Más allá de acá 
No sólo por cruzar cruzar 
El más acá 
Apariciones 
Samiri Hernández Hiraldo

Prayer for Healing 
Sandibel Borges

IN REVIEW

Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella 
Justine Hernandez

A Life on Hold: Living with Schizophrenia 
Norma L. Cárdenas

Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment 
Vanessa Fonseca

Growing Critically Conscious Teachers: A Social Justice Curriculum for Educators of Latina/o Youth 
Silvia Patricia Solis