Please join us for the third talk in the SHESC colloquia series: Beyond the Wall: Fronteriz@ Imaginaries
Thinking beyond geopolitical demarcations at the U.S./Mexico border, this talk asks how can we imagine the borderlands as a space of resistance, conviviality, agency and creative community building?
October 29, 2020| 5:30 p.m.
Michelle Téllez
Actress, educator, and activist Yalitza Aparicio has broken many barriers, including being the first Indigenous woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Roma. She is also the new UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous Peoples. In a wide-ranging interview, Michelle Téllez, assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies, will talk to the actress about her childhood, her experiences with discrimination, her role as Cleo in the movie Roma, the importance of representation, and her activism for domestic workers and Indigenous Peoples
Register here.
October 28, 2020
October 20 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Mexican weaving and embroidery are integral traditional art forms in Mexico and the Americas, closely tied to indigenous knowledge and resiliency. Join artists, activists, and scholars for a conversations that braids knowledge and experience to explore textiles as a form of cultural resistance, economic autonomy, and women’s collective empowerment.
Facilitator: DR. MICHELLE TELLEZ, University of Arizona Mexican American Studies
LORENA ANDRADE, Director, La Mujer Obrera, El Paso, Texas
NANSI GUEVARA, Textile artist, Brownsville, Texas
MARIA DEL CARMEN PARRA CANO, Owner of Indigena, a small business focusing on reaffirming the ancestral use of the rebozo during pregnancy, birthing & postpartum
More info. here!
Dr. Michelle Tellez is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in Community Studies, Sociology, Chicana/o Studies and education. She has been committed to mapping projects of resistance, exploring shared human experiences and advancing social justice for the last 25 years. Moderated by Dr. Tever Holland and Dr. Cesar Fuentes.
More information here.
Join the Chicana M(other)work collective for our first ever live plática on Saturday, October 3, 2020 11AM-12:30PM PST! Please RSVP by October 1 (limited capacity).
In this plática, we will share lessons we learned from the CMW social justice summer curriculum and how we are currently navigating the challenges of distance learning with our children. Participants will have a space to share their own challenges and ask questions.
Register here.
Virtual panel discussion about art, performance, gender, and borders. We feature five artists who have participated in the Binational Arts Residency to hear their perspectives on the possibilities for intersectional feminist futures in the borderlands.
September 15th marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, in reality; Hispanic, Latinx, and Chicano/a history are much more than a simple month. W and Young Latino Professionals of Wichita (YLPW) are working together to have an engaging conversation about Latinx history with Dr. Michelle Tellez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican-American Studies at the University of Arizona.
More info here: https://wyoungpros.com/event/more-than-a-month
Click here to watch the livestream.
Tucson friends - we are hoping to get your participation in this survey. I am the Tucson PI for the Arizona Youth Identity Project led by Dr. Nilda Flores-Gonzalez up at ASU - we need Tucson area folks to respond to this 15-minute survey. Please check it out and share widely, link here: http://bit.ly/3bFKDaq
In the summer of 2020, Sunhouse Arts (formerly Youth Collaboration of the Arts) created the largest living archive of today's Southwest, titled Work Project (ourworkproject.org).
In Work Project, over 200 individuals, including Presidential Medal of Honor recipient and Chicana activist Dolores Huerta, the Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye, former presidential candidate and Congressman Beto O'Rourke, and Food Network Emmy-nominated chef Aarón Sánchez have participated on this project.
Listen to my interview here.
To read more please visit Somos Escritoras.
Watch the informal conversation between Dr. HInojsa and Dr. Téllez where they discus cooking, history, music and Chicanx research!
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, CSRC Press is making available to the public three essays from the Spring 2020 issue.
Essays in the issue explore the impact of affirmative action on the Chicano movement, the reinscription of La Llorona in works by Gloria Anzaldúa and Sandra Cisneros, symbolic networking among sonidos in Chicago's baile economy, and political opposition in the poetry of Javier Huerta.
In the dossier section, curated by Michelle Téllez, writers, poets, and artists reflect on fifty years of Chicana feminism.
This fiftieth anniversary issue also celebrates the work of LA-based artist Judithe Hernández, who created the covers and illustrations for the earliest issues of Aztlán. In the editor's commentary, Charlene Villaseñor Black looks at these works and discusses Hernández's vital role in shaping the journal. The cover and the artist's communiqué feature some of Hernández's recent works.
Learn more here.
Dr. Téllez was an invited Speaker to the “Gender, Labor, and Migration” Symposium hosted by the Center for Work and Democracy, School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.
