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Latinx Heritage Month Resources

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:11:28 +0000

Latinx Heritage Month Resources Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 09/19/2022 - 14:11

In recognition of Latinx Heritage Month (September 15th - October 15th),

we'd like to share with you this list of resources, collected by WGST professors Dr. Kristie Soares and Dr. Leila Gomez:

Attend an Event–
Bocadillos y Chisme
Attention Latinx community! The Center for Inclusion and Social Change invites you to a Bocadillos & Chisme appetizer hour. Let’s welcome the new semester with community and tasty snacks and catch up on chisme!
Co-hosted by the Office of Precollege Outreach & Engagement and the Latin American & Latinx Studies Center.
Wednesday, September 28 at 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Center for Community, Abrams Lounge
2249 Williard Drive, ��«��Ƶ, CO 80309
"The Trouble with My Name" with Javier Ávila- Hispanic Heritage Month Event
When: Thursday, October 6, 2022 5:00 PM-6:30 PM.
Where: Old Main Chapel CU ��«��Ƶ (1600 Pleasant St, ��«��Ƶ, CO 80302, United States)
Get your free tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/384252518627
Read the work of key Latina feminists–
Gloria Anzaldúa
María Lugones
tatiana de la tierra
Read more about Latinx history–
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Get involved in Latinx activism –
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights
Voto Latino
Learn about pressing Latinx Issues–
Migrant detention centers have a long history of medical neglect and abuse
Combatting Anti-Black Racism in Latinx Communities
Listen to music created by Latinx feminist artists–
Rita Indiana
Lila Downs
Mon Laferte
Take a WGST class that focuses on the Latinx community –
(WGST 3711) Gender and Indigeneity in Literature and Film of the Americas
(WGST 3650) Gender & Politics in Latin America
(WGST 3600) Latina/x Studies
(WGST 2400) Women of Color and Activism
Explore Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALSC) Programs –
LALSC Certificate Program in Latin American and Latinx Studies
/lasc/undergraduate-certificate-latin-american-and-latinx-studies
LALSC Quechua Program
/lasc/quechua

Read more from WGST Faculty–
Books & Book Chapters:
Women and the Cuban Insurrection (Cambridge University Press. 2018.) / Lorraine Bayard de Volo
A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910. (Duke University Press, 2015.) / Robert Buffington
Latin Lovers, Chimosas, and Gendered Discourses of Power: The Role of the Subjective Narrator in Jane the Virgin (from Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities. University of Arizona Press. 2020)/ Kristie Soares
The Cuban Missle Crisis of White Masculinity: Tito Bonito and the burlesque butt (from The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture. Routledge. 2018.) / Kristie Soares
José Guadalupe Posada and Visual Culture in Porfirian Mexico. (from Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, 2018. Co-written with Jesus Osciel Salazar) / Robert Buffington
Recently Published Articles:
Tactical Negrificación and White Femininity: Race, Gender, and Internationalism in Cuba’s Angolan Mission (Radical History Review. 2020) / Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Guerreras y Puentes: the theory and praxis of Latina(x) activism (Politics, Groups and Identities. 2020)/ Celeste Montoya & Mariana Galvez Seminario
Incomodando: On the Role of Bothering in Rita Indiana’s Speculative Work (ASAP Journal. 2019) / Kristie Soares
Coming Soon: “Popular Sinophobia in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City.” (The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, Forthcoming 2020.) / Robert Buffington

If you have any additional links to share, or Latinx artists we should know about, please email them to us at wgst@colorado.edu!

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Bolder Voices Fall 2020

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:00:27 +0000

Bolder Voices Fall 2020 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/19/2020 - 15:00

Fall 2020 has been like no other! Check out this issue of our WGST newsletter for updates on our faculty, staff and students.

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Imagining Abolition: Dr. Kwame Holmes discusses Akwaeke Emezi's novel 'Pet'

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:17:28 +0000

Imagining Abolition: Dr. Kwame Holmes discusses Akwaeke Emezi's novel 'Pet' Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/05/2020 - 12:17

[video:https://youtu.be/U9mrq6oxdXM]

WGST Abolition Read

Monday, November 16th, 6 PM MST

What would a society without prisons look like??

Dr. Kwame Holmes led us in a discussion of Akwaeke Emezi’s young adult novel Pet, which seeks alternate visions for justice in a utopian world without prisons.

Kwame Holmes is Director of the Kingston Housing Lab, a Scholar-In-Residence in the Human Rights Project at Bard College, and Cohort Mentor for the Bard Baccalaureate program. He is a critical geographer, historian and cultural critic with a particular interest in the emotional politics of urban development and inequality.

For more information on the book Pet, please visit the author’s website at https://www.akwaeke.com/pet

To order the book, visit your local bookseller or library, or order online at: Bookshop | Indiebound |Powell’s | ��«��Ƶ Bookstore

More Resources:

In addition to the video replay above, we welcome colleagues teaching about abolition to use this talk and the resources below in their classrooms:

What is Abolition and why is it a feminist, queer and trans issue?

What is the Prison Industrial Complex? What is abolition? A very short overview by the organization Critical Resistance, co-founded by Black feminist scholar activists Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Angela Davis, among other activists.
Mariame Kaba, "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police". NYT, June 12 2020.
Victoria Law, "Against Carceral Feminism". Jacobin Magazine, 2014.
Flow Chart: Disproportionate incarceration of low-income, trans and gender non-conforming people. Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

Activism on the CU ��«��Ƶ campus

Petition by Black women students calling for CU to divest from CUPD. 12 June 2020.
"We Condemn Racist Police Violence". Statement by the Departments of Women and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at CU ��«��Ƶ, following the police killing of Mr. George Floyd.
#ScholarStrike: Divest to Invest in CU BIPOC. Video on CU BIPOC students' activism.

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Dancing With Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:57:26 +0000

Dancing With Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/22/2020 - 10:57

[video:https://youtu.be/NaeGF9YDDJY]

Monday, November 2, 5:30 pm on Zoom (MST)

A Counterpoints Lecture with Kristie Soares, Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies
Presentation link here, Zoom meeting ID: 940 2532 5981

Free and Open to Everyone

Professor Soares will deliver the inaugural AMRC Counterpoints Lecture (featuring interdisciplinary distinguished music scholars) with her talk, "Dancing With Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival." This presentation explores the evolution of Celia Cruz’s signature catchphrase azúcar [sugar] from her early career with Fania Records, to her later music with Sony Music, and finally to its posthumous adoption by queer fans of color both at her funeral and in the aftermath of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre. In doing so the talk argues that azúcar represented an embodied way to negotiate the patriarchal norms of the artist’s records labels, a mode of pushing back against the aspirational whiteness and heteronormativity of the Cuban community, and a model for queer of color survival in a murderous world.

Professor Kristie Soares will deliver the inaugural AMRC Counterpoints Lecture, exploring the evolution of Celia Cruz’s signature catchphrase azúcar [sugar] from her early career with Fania Records, to her later music with Sony Music, and finally to its posthumous adoption by queer fans of color both at her funeral and in the aftermath of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre.

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WGST supports #ScholarStrike for racial justice

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:25:26 +0000

WGST supports #ScholarStrike for racial justice Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 09/07/2020 - 18:25

The faculty and staff of the Department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) support the Scholar Strike for racial justice on September 8th and 9th, 2020. The national strike has been called by Anthea Butler (Religious Studies, Africana Studies, Univ of Pennsylvania) and Kevin Gannon (History, Grand View University) in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI, and the many other police murders of African Americans of all genders in recent months and across history. As a department, we stand in solidarity with BIPOC students and community members to take a collective stand against police violence against Black communities and other communities of color. We encourage our faculty, staff, and affiliates to support the strike in any way possible. We encourage supervisors of staff and graduate instructors to support their supervisees who are engaging in the work of racial justice, either by taking time aside from work, or in other ways. Some ways of supporting the strike are listed here: #CUScholarStrike. We also refer back to our joint statement with WGST/Ethnic Studies from this summer: WGST Condemns Racist Police Violence

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Links:

#CUScholarStrike, from diversifyCUnow: https://www.diversifycunow.com/cuscholarstrike

Scholar Strike, by Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon: https://academeblog.org/2020/09/02/scholar-strike/

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Resources for Confronting Anti-Black Racism in POC, Indigenous, and Marginalized Communities

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:19:20 +0000

Resources for Confronting Anti-Black Racism in POC, Indigenous, and Marginalized Communities Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/06/2020 - 09:19

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We Condemn Racist Police Violence

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:24:09 +0000

We Condemn Racist Police Violence Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/01/2020 - 13:24

The Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the ��«��Ƶ condemn the police killing of Mr. George Floyd. This killing adds to a long list of over 1250 folks of African descent killed by police since 2005, not taking into account acts of police brutality resulting in grievous bodily harm and deaths while in police or sheriff's custody.

Mr. Floyd’s public murder adds to a spate of police killings of Black people in the past few months of the COVID 19 pandemic. Breonna Taylor was shot in her own bed at home in Louisville Kentucky. Ahmaud Arbery was hunted and killed while jogging in Georgia. Tony McDade, a Black transgender man, was killed by officers in Florida. These police killings come at a time where the COVID 19 pandemic is causing much higher rates of death in Black, Latinx and tribal communities, especially the Navajo Nation. We urge our campus community to take note of racism as another public health emergency for Black, Latinx, Native and other communities of color. We also urge public attention to how these acts of violence are racialized and gendered, with Black people in every gender group being disproportionately vulnerable to police violence.

As departments whose work is informed by intersectional antiracist, feminist, queer, and transgender scholarship and activism, we condemn the ongoing criminalization of black people and the glorification of police violence against black people. We demand justice for the family of Mr. George Floyd and all families who have lost loved ones to racist police violence. We denounce the ongoing onslaught of violence against peaceful protesters in Colorado and across the United States and the world in the wake of this horrific murder. We call for an end to the increased militarization and funding of police forces and the prison industrial complex, and for states and counties to invest in better schools, job training and empowerment for marginalized communities.

We call on our students, faculty, and administration at the university to take a stand against the systemic violence and murders that have wrecked black people’s lives in this country since the colonizers first arrived. We also demand that our campus leaders call for the ��«��Ƶ police department to account for the many instances of racial harassment by the ��«��Ƶ police. Finally, we stand in full support of the student public petition co-authored by Ruth Woldemichael and Olivia Gardner.

Please also see: 9news interview with Dr. Hillary Potter, associate professor of ethnic studies and associate dean for inclusive practice, College of Arts & Sciences, CU ��«��Ƶ, discussing the history of violent demonstrations in Denver amid the George Floyd protests.

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Latinx Heritage Month Resources

In recognition of Latinx Heritage Month (September 15th - October 15th),

we'd like to share with you this list of resources, collected by WGST professors Dr. Kristie Soares and Dr. Leila Gomez:

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Bolder Voices Fall 2020

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Imagining Abolition: Dr. Kwame Holmes discusses Akwaeke Emezi's novel 'Pet'

WGST Abolition Read

More Resources:

What is Abolition and why is it a feminist, queer and trans issue?

Activism on the CU ��«����Ƶ campus

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Dancing With Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival

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WGST supports #ScholarStrike for racial justice

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Resources for Confronting Anti-Black Racism in POC, Indigenous, and Marginalized Communities

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We Condemn Racist Police Violence

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Activism on the CU ��«��Ƶ campus