la Webjefa By Angela Onwuachi-Willig Featured at The Chronicle Excerpted from Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, ed. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris, Utah State University Press, 2012). Silence as Action As an untenured professor, I learned firsthand about the power of silence by … Read more
“Gender as a category of analysis explodes as technologies remap the category to reinvent fresh ways of interpreting sexualities and social/political desire.†Emma Pérez, The Decolonial Imaginary (14) It has been more than two years that the MALCS membership has been in a challenging discussion on inclusion in our organization. As I try to draw lines from … Read more
By Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez For The Feminist Wire (10/23/12) Is it a coincidence that Disney launched the promotional campaign for its first Hispanic Princess Sofia weeks before the 2012 Presidential election? Maybe. But I can’t help but ponder the larger implications of thinking through “Hispanic†activists being “pissed†about the new Disney princess not debuting in … Read more
Diabetes is different from other diseases. Once you have it, you have it for life. There is no remission. Your pancreas will remain either completely non-working (type 1) or forever debilitated (type II). With diabetes, if you want to live a long life with a balanced glucose level, it is primarily up to you to completely change your eating and … Read more
Over the last three years there have been a spate of “reunion†and “commemoration†gatherings around major moments in the Chicano movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This past summer I attended two such gatherings in Texas, one in Austin and one in El Paso organized by raza in each place to reflect … Read more
“César Chávez gave a voice to poor and disenfranchised workers everywhere,†said President Obama. “La Paz was at the center of some of the most significant civil rights moments in our nation’s history, and by designating it a national monument, Chávez’ legacy will be preserved and shared to inspire generations to come.â€
I deliberated over the topic of my first blog for Mujeres Talk this fall 2012. I wanted to pick something big—both central to the upcoming election and to our lives as Chicanas and Latinas. After hearing and reading about rumors of a Monica Lewinsky tell-all book, I realized that a critique of Clinton at this moment in … Read more