New site for Natl Latina Inst for Reproductive Health

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Check out the newly revised website for the DC-based National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. The mission of NLIRH is “to ensure the fundamental human right to reproductive health for Latinas, their families and their communities through public education, policy advocacy, and community mobilization.” Current sites includes info on the Roe v. Wade anniversary, updates … Read more

Iraqi Higher Ed on ‘brink of collapse’…

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Faced with the lingering war and unrelenting sectarian violence, [Iraqi] students by the thousands have been leaving campuses to return home or enroll at universities in other countries. Enrollment fell by more than half at some colleges in the past year alone, education officials said. Meanwhile, Iraqi professors continue to be targeted for assassination and … Read more

Iraqi Higher Ed on 'brink of collapse'…

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Faced with the lingering war and unrelenting sectarian violence, [Iraqi] students by the thousands have been leaving campuses to return home or enroll at universities in other countries. Enrollment fell by more than half at some colleges in the past year alone, education officials said. Meanwhile, Iraqi professors continue to be targeted for assassination and … Read more

New pub: The Color of Violence

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Estimad@s Colegas, Please take a look and consider using this in your courses, etc.  Renee Saucedo’s piece on immigration enforcement violence against migrant women, Sylvanna Falcon’s piece on border violence against women (she introduces the term “militarized border rape,”) and Rosa Linda Fregoso’s piece on Juarez would add substantially to the discussion of gender, patriarchy … Read more

MALCS journal seeks focused issues

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[Apologies for this late post; members should have received this note last year on the email list –webjefa]  Dear MALCS Members and Allies: Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS is now accepting proposals for focused issues. In the future, proposals for focused issues are accepted at any time, but for the first open call, proposals … Read more

Local news bits

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Rethinking Racial Classifications – An Education Department plan to change the way colleges collect and report data on their students’ racial and ethnic backgrounds is attracting growing criticism. MALDEF and the ACLU are challenging legislation passed in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, Texas, that prohibits landlords from renting to undocumented immigrants. Oaxacan women and … Read more