Mujeres Talk Editorial Collective 
This is an excerpt from a plenary talk delivered at the 2011 MALCS Summer Institute at Cal State Los Angeles. Trans* is used here as a more inclusive and encompassing term for those who would be included under the umbrella term “transgender†but do not necessarily fully identify with the term. This term is being … Read more
In 1980-81, a group of women, mostly Chicana, some Native/indigenous, mostly graduate students, some undergraduates and at least 2 faculty, founded an organization still in existence today, called Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). Initially, it received funding from many sources, small amounts from student funds, research monies, and UC Davis’s Chicana/o Studies … Read more
From: Â Â Â Educators for Immigrant Rights Subject:Â Petition to Governor to Sign CA Dream Act October 2, 2011 Dear Colleague: We are writing you to ask you to join this petition to urge Governor Brown to sign AB 131, The California Dream Act Part II. AB 131 would make undocumented/AB 540 students eligible for … Read more
“I’m not a writer,†I whined. “You’ve been writing a blog for years,†my husband said. “But I’m not a REAL writer. I can’t describe people and places in flowery detail.†My husband gave me a pained look. That settles that, I thought to myself as I walked over to my latest craft project ready to … Read more
We have renovated the page for Mujeres Talk, the new MALCS web project featuring blog essays by members and allies on current issues and research. I am an anthropologist who studies the labor of Mexicana elder care providers. Every year I spend time in the field, in my long-standing research site of Santa Barbara, and … Read more
By C. Alejandra Elenes There should be no doubt that patriarchy, white supremacy, and privilege are the ideological underpinnings of anti-immigrant legislation and policy in Arizona. The anti-immigrant climate in Arizona is not new, it is an intrinsic part of its history. Indeed at this historical juncture in the continuum of anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070 […]