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 … 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
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
Over the last three years there have been a spate of “reunion†and “commemoration†gatherings around major moments in the Chicano movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This past summer I attended two such gatherings in Texas, one … Read More