In recognition of Latinx Heritage Month (September 15th - October 15th), we'd like to share with you this list of resources, collected by WGST professor Dr. Kristie Soares:
Read the work of key Latina feminists –
Read more about Latinx history –
Get involved in Latinx activism –
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—
Take a WGST class that focuses on the Latinx community –
- (WGST 3650) Gender & Politics in Latin America
- (WGST 3600) Latina/x Studies
- (WGST 2400) Women of Color and Activism
Attend "Love Across Borders: Immigration is an LGBTQ Issue" – Tuesdays at 6:30pm, Sept. 22 & 29. Online via Zoom & Facebook Live. Register at www.altheacenter.org/loveacrossborders - Zoom meeting ID: 970 7036 8185 or www.facebook.com/ColoradansforImmigrantRights (in Spanish at www.facebook.com/HEALDenver5280)
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
Book Release Reception:
Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities10/22/20 | 4 - 5:30 p.m. | Zoom link available with RSVPSpeakers: Kristie Soares, Lau Malaver, Alejandra Portillos, Nick Villanueva, Wayne Freeman, JM Rivera and Sergio Macias
Moderator: Arturo J. Aldama
Past Events:
CISC's Latinx Stories: Triumph, Joy and Success – Tuesday, September 22 at 5pm. Including a watch party followed by a live Q&A session facilitated by one of our featured storytellers.
If you have any additional links to share, or Latinx artists we should know about, please email them to us at wgst@colorado.edu!