CFP: Malcs Summer Institute 2013, ¡Aquí Estamos!

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Aquí Estamos!/We Are Here!: Movements, Migrations, Pilgrimage and Belonging

The 2013 MALCS Summer Institute Program Committee invites submissions for its annual Summer Institute to be held this year at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. This is only the third time in its 30-year history that MALCS has been located in the U.S. Midwest. We take seriously the location where we find ourselves—the geographical, historical, contemporary, intellectual, cultural and political place where we are—for the 2013 Summer Institute.

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Good Silences, Bad Silences, Unforgivable Silences

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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

Mujeres Talk: TransGenderInter

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“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

Princess Sofia and Barack Obama: Why I Must Choose Accordingly

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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

Tiffany Ana López named to Endowed Chair @UCR

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Today, October 25, Dr. Tiffany Ana López was appointed to the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Riverside campus of the University of California. This is a great distinction not only within the UC system but throughout the United States as Dr. López is the third … Read more

Mujeres Talk: Understanding Diabetes to Help Yourself, Your Family Members, Your Friends . . .

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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