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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read More