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Mujeres Talk: Remembering the Power and Satisfaction of Mentorship

January 23, 2012 by la Webjefa

Mentorship, both the act of mentoring and being mentored, is a well-known practice amongst Chicana and Latina scholars, educators and activists. We know firsthand of its efficiency, and the deep sense of satisfaction that comes with offering and taking advice, … Read More

News from Executive Committee (July 2011)

December 29, 2011 by la Webjefa

Dear MALCistas, In the coming weeks before our 2011 Institute, our website will feature a new section “News from the Exec.” The MALCS Special Gathering launched an assessment of our organization that would address how we, as a national body, … Read More

Call for Nominations, Lead Editor, Chicana/Latina Studies

November 24, 2011 by la Webjefa

MALCS invites nominations and self-nominations for lead editor to serve five-year term, and provide institutional home for same five-year term for its flagship, interdisciplinary journal, Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social beginning May 15, 2014â€“June 15, 2019.

Scope of Chicana/Latina Studies:The flagship journal of MALCS is published twice yearly in fall and spring of the academic calendar. Chicana/Latina Studies is the only interdisciplinary Latino studies journal of a national organization. Originally housed at the Chicana/Latina Research Center, University of California, Davis, MALCS published Voces between 1996 and 2001. Adaljiza Sosa Ridell managed the journal and coordinated the collective editorial board.

Call for Nominations, Lead Editor, Chicana/Latina Studies

January 23, 2012November 24, 2011 by Theresa Delgadillo

Call for Nominations: Editors for creative Writing, Book Reviews, Chicana/Latina Studies

November 24, 2011 by la Webjefa

MALCS invites nominations and self-nominations for creative writing editor and book review editor to serve five-year term for its flagship, interdisciplinary journal, Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social.

Creative Writing Co-Editor
MALCS invites nominations and self-nominations for one individual to serve as Creative Writing Co-Editor of Chicana/Latina Studies for a five-year term: May 15, 2012â€”June 15, 2017.

Call for Nominations: Editors for creative Writing, Book Reviews, Chicana/Latina Studies

March 4, 2012November 24, 2011 by Theresa Delgadillo

Cherrie: Whew! We did it! Deep thanks!

January 23, 2012November 3, 2011 by la Webjefa

From Cherrie L. Moraga:

Estimado/as Supporters,
True, we were not going door to door with donation cans, but the vigilance it took by so many of you, to encourage your friends and colegas to pledge, to keep sending out the word, posting and posting, felt as demanding as that. And I thank you. I thank all of you here who have supported this campaign. Some of you, I know, really pledged beyond your budgets. It meant a great deal to me, to us.

In our *52-*day campaign (the NEW FIRE number), we raised over $27,000! And, in the process, you have helped to fund actual jobs for people of color artists — musicians, visual artists, designers, and choreographer — in a Xicana/Indigenous/Queer project. (There is a kind of timely and connected importance to this, I think: this show of an alternative approach to capital-raising in solidarity with young people in Oakland hell-raising in opposition to capital greed.)

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