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Harmonizing Latina Visions and Voices: Cultural Explorations ofEntornos discursively challenges the erasures, stigma, and silences imposed on women by functioning as a harmonizing choir, a collection of voices to testify on mujerismo, its vision, and its promise for (our) future. This collection puts “on the record” a pathway toward liberation that pushes back against white supremacist projects unleashed by academia, our families, official narratives of the State, and immigration. This book does not seek to equate the experiences of all Latinas or envision a one-size-fits-all response. We harmonize these diverse voices, understanding that these stories, poems, and essays are invoking different spaces, times, and experiences. We offer them as an intergenerational, intellectual, and spiritual dialogue. As a practice, this work centers and contextualizes how women’s resistance is articulated and expressed. The stories reflected in the chapters that follow are often matricentric, transnational, and queer. Some recurring themes center on the policing, policies, and legislations that govern Latina’s bodies and the entornos (social/environmental worlds) in which they move, are detained, or embodied.

Table of Contents

Table Of Contents

List of Figures

Foreword by Rachel Afi Quinn

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Melissa Alvarez-Maldonado & Amarilys Estrella

Part 1: Who is a Latina?

1. A Letter to Black Womxn of Abya Yala and Turtle Island by Meryleen Mena

2. The Formula for Visible Latin(a)dad: Latina Pop Icons and their U.S.-based Personas by Nikole Meyers

3. Cultivating a Pleasure Practice by Raquel Corona

4. Beauty in Isolation by Monserrat Pavia-Bravo

5. La Cosas Pequeñas: A Study of How the Little Things Add Up by Brianna Ortiz

6. A Poetics of Relajo: Josefina Baez (Cyber) Stages Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork by Margarita M. Castromán Soto

7. Ser Latina & Do you Touch Yourself? by Alba Quintero-Retis

Part 2: Mothering

8. Grandmother by Saira Coye-Huhn

9. Gendered Intergenerational Trauma: Reflections and Explorations on Embodied Mami Issues by Melissa Alvarez-Maldonado

10. My Mother, Myth, and Monster by Alba Quintero-Retis

11. Magaly Pineda, Dominican Feminist Leader by Amaury Rodriguez

12. Not my Mother’s Eyes by Juliana Nociari

13. Verde by Sofia Lara Carbone

14. Abuela Elsa: La Matriarca by Sydney Fontalvo

15. Dolores by Andres Leon

Part 3: Entornos and the Body

16. You’ll Still be Fine and Rerooting by Alba Quinteiros-Retis (Poem)

17. Interrogating Intimacies: Challenging Gender-Based Violence within an Anti-Racist
Movement Against Statelessness by Amarilys Estrella

18. Children’s Laughter / Risas de Niños by Dayana Alejandro Campoverde

19. Crafting Social Justice: Seeking Protection and Redistributing Unequal Power through Brujería by Vanessa Aguilar

20. The Narrative of the Body: Reframing Identity and Violence in Selena: The Series and Mariposa de Barrio by Kaltra Marku

21. Conquering the Freshman 15 by Angelica Burac

22. Wielders of Ancestral Magic: Imaginative Representations of Queerness in Fantasy Latinx YA Graphic Novels by Jose Guillermo

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Published Apr 05 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 310
ISBN 9781666900316
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 14 BW Illustrations
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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