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, Boulder, 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 Boulder (1600 Pleasant St, Boulder, CO 80302, United States)Get your free tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/384252518627
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 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
https://www.colorado.edu/lasc/undergraduate-certificate-latin-american-and-latinx-studies
- LALSC Quechua Program
https://www.colorado.edu/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!