2018 MALCS Summer Institute Convivencia y Resistencia: Fronterizas for Social Justice The assaults to Latinx and Chicanx communities have mounted over the past few years, and nowhere are they more apparent than along the U.S. – Mexico border. National and state administrations have taken anti-womanist and anti-immigrant stances that threaten the peace, security, and existence … Read more
2017 CFP – MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshop Two sessions focusing on academic articles will take place on  Wednesday, July 19, and Friday, July 21, 2017. The MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshop is one of our formal methods of creating a feminist editorial praxis in the publication of work by and about Chicanas/Latinas. The workshop … Read more
Last year around this time, I blogged some tips for how to make the most of the MALCS Summer Institute. The Institute is a special time for students, junior colleagues and senior scholars in our fields because we come together to support each other, make new friends, and hear new critical engagements within our scholarly … Read more
I have been thinking a lot about time and its processes lately. When I took and passed the Candidacy Exam in my graduate program, time was paramount. As in most universities, departmental guidelines dictate that students in the program make timely progress to the degree. There are, however, minimal guidelines for writing the requisite three … Read more
“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
I felt like I was in the Chicana Feminist’s Hollywood at my first MALCS Summer Institute. Everywhere I looked there were scholars whose books I had tirelessly taken notes on only weeks and days before arriving. At the beginning of the summer, my advisor had decided that we should focus our independent study on Chicana … Read more
For the past twelve years, I’ve lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, an iconic New England college town that has a high-income and predominantly white population that often boasts about a family lineage that dates back to the first pilgrim settlers. Luckily for my son Miguel Angel, who is now a seventeen-year-old and about to enter is senior … Read more