We Speak for Ourselves: “Decolonizing Nuestr@s Conciencias, Cuerpos, La Tierra y el Alma”

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CALLING ALL ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS AND SCHOLARS The Association for Jotería 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

Mujeres Talk: Welcome to MALCS and Mujeres Talk!

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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

CFP: Keeping our Faculty of Color Symposium

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From Rusty Barcelo:

Transforming Our Institutions: Advancing Inclusive Excellence Among Faculty in Higher Education

Keeping Our Faculty of Color VI
April 14-16, 2013

The University of Minnesota is pleased to announce the sixth biennial Keeping Our Faculty of Color Symposium. We invite you to join us as we gather to engage cross-disciplinary theories, rigorous scholarship, and innovative practices to advance conceptual, empirical, and practical work to develop, recruit, and retain faculty of color.

Submit a proposal online now. The deadline for submission is November 16, 2012.
View a PDF copy of the Call for Proposals.

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News from the Exec: Understanding the Past and Shaping the Future of MALCS: the 2012 Bylaws Proposal

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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

Filipina nurses win language discrimination suit (CA)

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From an article by Anh Do in the Los Angeles Times

A group of Filipino nurses who claimed they were mocked for their accents and ordered to speak “English only” won a nearly $1-million settlement against a Central California hospital where bosses and co-workers were allegedly urged to eavesdrop on the immigrant workers.

“They were always telling us, ‘Ssshhh. English only. English only. I felt embarrassed, ashamed,” said Elnora Cayme

The $975,000 settlement, announced Monday by lawyers from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is believed to be the largest language discrimination settlement in the U.S. healthcare industry, according to the Asian Pacific American Legal Center.

Officials at Delano Regional Medical Center insisted they did nothing wrong and settled the lawsuit only because it made financial sense. Under the terms of the settlement, however, the hospital must conduct anti-discrimination training and hire a monitor to track workplace conduct.

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‘The Baseline Is, You Suck’: Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women

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From Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, an interview with Junot Diaz  from Atlantic Magazine: The stories in Junot Diaz’s new collection, This Is How You Lose Her, tread some familiar territory. Unfolding in Bergen County barrios and on Santo Domingo beaches, they feature fast-talking Dominicans (from there, from here) struggling against the pinions of racial prejudice, … Read more