No me pides perdón
As has often been stated by Chicana/x, Latina/x, and Indigenous women both before and after the establishment of Chicana/Latina Studies, there is incontrovertible power in telling one’s own story, one’s own truth. Perhaps, no story is more distinctive to the Latina/o/x experience than that of immigration. Over the past two decades, contributors to Chicana/Latina Studies have published scholarship and creative works that address issues of immigration, transnationalism, and citizenship. These pieces honor the subjectivities and agency of the women, children, families, and communities that withstand and prosper amidst the colonial, imperial, capitalist, neoliberal, heteropatriarchical, and white supremacist conditions that are constitutive of U.S.-Mexico relations. (Indeed, it is this capricious and inequitable relationship that triggers immigration from the southern half of the hemisphere to its northern half.) It is a rich corpus of work that theorizes from the flesh in order to understand the trauma, repercussions, and resiliency in an immigrant’s journey. Despite what might sit at the top of mainstream best seller book lists, the pages of Chicana/Latina Studies are a testament to the expertise of Chicana/Latina/Indigenous scholars to tell this particular story and truth, and we encourage all our readers to engage, cite, promote, and learn from both the lived experiences and theoretical conceptualizations that shape this important work.
ARTIST STATEMENT
From a Lone Printmaker to Socially Engaged Artist
Celeste De Luna
EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
Storytelling and Truthtelling in Chicana/Latina Studies
Sonya M. Alemán
GUEST COMMENTARY
Chingona chones y nuevas generaciones: A Reflection on Diosa y hembra
Martha P. Cotera
ESSAYS
Transgressing Gender and Sexuality Roles of Mexican Folkloric Dance:
Disidentification in Raíces de mitierra’s 2013 Performanc eof“La mújer de colores”
Marina V. Chavez
Horizontal Contact Zones: Undocumented Latina’s Coalitional Practices During Hurricane Katrina
Maria Paula Chaves Daza
Conocimientos de una maestra: A Teacher’s Path to Healing
Lisa Mendoza Knecht
CREATIVE WRITING
EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
Remixing: Sampling Memory, Experience, and Words
Patricia Marina Trujillo
South of Living
Kimberlee Pérez
She Had Brown Hands
Angel of Mercy
Tacos de sitio y lengua
Paradigm Shift
Claudia Rodriguez
Predatory Reciprocity and the Politics of Chingona Fierce
Rosanna Alvarez
Si pudiera escribir un poema: Latina fate
Just Life
Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto
IN REVIEW
Gender and Chicanidad Beyond Borders
Meagan Solomon
Memory Death: Myriam Gurba’s Mosaic of Truth and Trauma
Julianna Loera Wiggins
Building Bridges in Communication Studies: Towards a Social Justice Imperative
Mari Castañeda
La Virgen and the Mexican Catholic Imagination
Pat Zavella
