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Mexico moves to protect migrants at border

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La Cámara de Diputados aprobó la minuta del Senado por la cual se expide la nueva Ley de Migración, con lo que se busca frenar agresiones en contra de migrantes, y obliga a las instituciones del Estado a respetar los derechos humanos de los indocumentados. Los legisladores federales también aprobaron el dictamen para crear la … Read more

CFP 2011 Writing Workshops at Summer Institute, CSULA

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social invites your participation in the Writing Workshops at the 2011 MALCS Summer Institute at Cal State LA (CSULA), August 3-7, 2011 The deadline for submission is postmark July 1, 2011. First-come, first-serve basis for 8 participants. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR … Read more

Call for Submissions: Chicana/Latina Testimonios….

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Equity and Excellence in Education Special Issue Chicana/Latina Testimonios: Methodologies, Pedagogies, and Political Urgency Guest Editors: Dolores Delgado Bernal, Rebeca Burciaga, and Judith Flores Carmona The genre of testimonios has deep roots in many oral cultures and in Latin American human rights struggles. The publication of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (2001) almost a … Read more

MALCS 2011 Los Angeles Call for Papers

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New Online Submission form available here now! (now closed)

Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social
Summer Institute
California State University, Los Angeles
August 3-6, 2011

Against Fear and Terror:  Una Nueva Conciencia Sin Fronteras

MALCS is a “national organization of Chicanas/Latinas and Native American women working in academia and in community settings with a common goal: to work toward the support, education and dissemination of Chicana/Latina and Native American women’s issues.”  The theme this year aims to foreground the academic and activist endeavors contesting the current framing of citizenship and belonging through binaries such as immigrant/non-immigrant that ignore lived relationship, histories and transformative practices in rights-based struggles.

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MUJERES TALK: L.A. Supporters of Ethnic Studies Gather

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We are pleased to offer the third post in our new series, Mujeres Talk: Mujeres & Migration. This entry is from The Los Angeles Committee to Support Ethnic Studies (LACSES) and The National Association for Chicana & Chicano Studies (NACCS): As you may know, Arizona has been passing laws that affect Chicana/os and their extended … Read more

MUJERES TALK: Y las mexicanas migrantes, ¿cuándo?

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We are pleased to offer the second post in our new series, Mujeres Talk: Mujeres & Migration. In this entry, Gloria González-López reflects on the unique social contexts and circumstances surrounding Mexican immigrant’s women  journeys. “Compañera, tenga cuidado, what you are suggesting has the risk of dividing our immigrant communities and families.” The above comment … Read more