Features

Proof of Concept at the University of California

A long-standing program to diversify academic faculty in California is becoming a model for inclusive hiring nationwide.
Transformative Manifesting

We invite you to listen to our newest episode where we sit down with one of the editors of the new book, Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies and Spaces, Dr. Eddy Alvarez Jr. and contributors Bamby Salcedo, José Manuel Santillana and Dr. Katherine Steelman. Our conversation centers on the significance of healing as an in-roads into the process of editing and writing such a critical intervention into the fields of Chicanx and Latinx Studies. Sending peace and love your way. Episode is now streaming.
Dossier: Jotería Studies

The Dossier section of the Spring 2014 issue of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies focuses on jotería studies. This collection of twelve articles, curated by Michael Hames-García (University of Oregon), offers a variety of perspectives on jotería studies, which Hames-García identifies as “an emergent formation” being developed by “a new generation of multigendered queer Chican@s and Latin@s, trained and nurtured by women of color feminisms and feminists ... among whom trans* and cisgendered people of color have fought and loved in coalition, inclusion, and multiplicity.”
Politics and Practice of Queer Resistance, Jotería Activism and Solidarities- Moderated by Alan Pelaez Lopez

The panel Politics and Practice of Queer Resistance, Jotería Activism and Solidarities moderated by Alan Pelaez Lopez took place at UC Davis for the "Acompañamiento y Resistencia Global: Politics and Praxis of Solidarities" symposium on April 16th, 2025, that explored the politics and practice of global solidarity.