Camino Real: estudios de las hispanidades norteamericanasCAMREALhttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/79032024-03-29T08:11:56Z2024-03-29T08:11:56ZA Chicana butch manifesto: reflections of my ornery spiritGaspar de Alba, Aliciahttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/601092024-01-31T01:16:19Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZA Chicana butch manifesto: reflections of my ornery spirit
Gaspar de Alba, Alicia
A personal reflection on my identity as a Chicana butch lesbian from the El Paso-Juárez border with guest appearances by Jean Cordova, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, Emma Pérez, Radclyffe Hall, Monique Wittig, Jack Halberstam, Sor Juana, Barbie, and Juan Gabriel.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZMujeres y madness: deconstructing Chicana teoria on locura, queerness, and loveLara, Brendahttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/600982024-01-31T01:16:11Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZMujeres y madness: deconstructing Chicana teoria on locura, queerness, and love
Lara, Brenda
In “Mujeres y Madness: Deconstructing Chicana Teoria on Locura, Queerness, and Love,” I explore the intersections of Chicanidad, queerness, and mental health as I navigate “locura” as a "typology in Borderlands." Drawing from queer Chicana feminist theorists, including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba, I explicate “locura teoría” within Chicana scholarship. Embracing my “locura”, my obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and the journey through madness and sanity, this essay traces my Coactlicue State. Utilizing Anzaldúa’s literature and archives as a backdrop to my mental health, I analyze “locura”, sanity, and love within Anzaldúa’s writing and my journal entries during the 2020-2021 phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through my mental destruction and reconstruction, I accept OCD as the “locura” and neurodivergent Shadow-Beast inside my mind.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZFrom auto-flagellation to communal love: the sex(y) corazón of John Rechy and hom(e)oeroticsGonzález, Omarhttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/598122024-01-24T01:16:30Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZFrom auto-flagellation to communal love: the sex(y) corazón of John Rechy and hom(e)oerotics
González, Omar
John Rechy, the eternal literary outsider or “outlaw,” as he prefers, has provided
nearly sixty years of sharp, critical analysis through several written media—
journalistic articles, short stories, essays, plays, memoir, and the novel. Throughout
his corpus of novels, he writes of the protagonist’s “search for a substitute for
salvation,” as Rechy decolonizes himself from the false promises of the Catholic
Church. I take themes from several of Rechy’s novels to expand my theory of
hom(e)oerotics, a process for queer Xicanx men to decolonize ourselves from the
auto-flagellation of internalized misogyny and homophobia, systems we observe
and absorb from institutions like the Church, the State, the Family. Rechy’s six
decades of writing is alternately a history lesson and a grim portent, particularly
as we document over four decades of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, an issue that few
people consider to be a problem of any significance, particularly in the field of
Chicana and Chicano Studies.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAd feminam: Martine Gutierrez and the language of advertisingAmador, Ezequielhttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/598112024-01-24T01:16:28Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAd feminam: Martine Gutierrez and the language of advertising
Amador, Ezequiel
Martine Gutierrez (b. Apr. 16, 1989, Berkeley, CA) is a Guatemalan American artist,
a trans woman of Indigenous Maya descent, and the cover girl of artworks that pass
as advertisements. At the age of thirty- four, her billboards, bus shelter ads, and
fashion magazine spreads have caught the attention of major media outlets. Often
branded as a “Latinx artist,” it is striking that the media never discusses Gutierrez
in relation to other Latina/x artists. In this paper, I situate Gutierrez within a
lineage of Latina/x and Chicana/x artist-activists, such as Ester Hernández (b.
1944, Dinuba, CA) and Patssi Valdez (b. 1951, East Los Angeles, CA). I draw on
cultural theorists, such as Chela Sandoval, to consider how Gutierrez’s glamorous
adaptations of mass media form part of an ongoing liberatory practice, one that
uses art to combat the idealization of whiteness, critique gender norms, and call
out systemic racism.
2023-01-01T00:00:00Z