la Webjefa The inaugural Women of Color in the Academy (WCA) Conference will be held on April 3-5, 2013, hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The conference will focus on Issues of Politics and Scholarship, and will feature keynotes by Professor bell hooks; Vice President and Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise; President MarÃa Hernández Ferrier; and Professor … Read more
Many in California are disappointed at Governor Jerry Brown for his veto of two labor rights bills, including the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights (AB889) and the Trust Act. The Trust Act would have  provided the state’s undocumented immigrants some protection from the federal Secure Communities program by prohibiting local authorities from honoring federal detention requests … Read more
So a group of 24 linguistic scholars have joined the effort to remove the term “illegal” immigrant from our national vocabulary.  The progressive magazine ColorLines launched a campaign late last year to “Drop the I Word” after a series of articles showed that in recent years there has been a steady increase in language that frames … Read more
In September 2012, I and my research partners from Arizona State University hosted a Community Forum in South Phoenix to report back to this community the preliminary results of our research. The room at the community center was almost full. A few people were still serving themselves dinner from the taco bar set up by a … Read more
CALLING ALL ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS AND SCHOLARS The Association for JoterÃa Arts, Activism and Scholarship (AJAAS) Invites proposals for our 1st National Conference: “We Speak for Ourselves: Decolonizing Nuestr@s Conciencias, Cuerpos, La Tierra y El Alma†October 19-21, 2012 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Submissions: Early Bird: August 15, 2012 Last call: September 1, 2012 to: joteriamail@gmail.com Objective … Read more
We are happy to count you among our members and supporters. We are a national organization of Chicanas, Latinas (including Afro-Latinas and Asian-Latinas) and Indigenous women, trans and gender non-conforming people who are dedicated to excelling in academia. So that we can better serve our communities, MALCS has three main goals: To produce and distribute … Read more
Mónica F. Torres 2011-2012 MALCS Chair Posted July 2012 In 2010, the MALCS Executive Committee suspended the MALCS bylaws in order to engage in a major revision of the document. It became clear that the bylaws, last revised in 1991, were in need of updating. We spent approximately one year discussing and producing a draft. … Read more