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

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: 

Read the work of key Latina feminists–

Read more about Latinx history–

Get involved in Latinx activism –

Learn about pressing Latinx Issues–

• 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

/lasc/undergraduate-certificate-latin-american-and-latinx-studies

• LALSC Quechua Program

/lasc/quechua

 

Read more from WGST Faculty–

Books & Book Chapters:

• (Cambridge University Press. 2018.) / Lorraine Bayard de Volo
• (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
• . (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
• (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!

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Fall 2020 has been like no other! Check out this issue of our WGST newsletter for updates on our faculty, staff and students.

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WGST Abolition Read

Monday, November 16th, 6 PM MST

What would a society without prisons look like??

Dr. Kwame Holmes led us in a discussion of Akwaeke Emezi’s young adult novel , which seeks alternate visions for justice in a utopian world without prisons. 

Kwame Holmes is Director of the Kingston Housing Lab, a Scholar-In-Residence in the Human Rights Project at Bard College, and Cohort Mentor for the Bard Baccalaureate program. He is a critical geographer, historian and cultural critic with a particular interest in the emotional politics of urban development and inequality.

For more information on the book Pet, please visit the author’s website at 

To order the book, visit your local bookseller or library, or order online at:  |  | |

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What is Abolition and why is it a feminist, queer and trans issue?

•  A very short overview by the organization Critical Resistance, co-founded by Black feminist scholar activists Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Angela Davis, among other activists.
• Mariame Kaba, . NYT, June 12 2020. 
• Victoria Law, . Jacobin Magazine, 2014.
• . Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

Activism on the CU Boulder campus

• . 12 June 2020.
• "We Condemn Racist Police Violence". Statement by the Departments of Women and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at CU Boulder, following the police killing of Mr. George Floyd.
• . Video on CU BIPOC students' activism. 

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A Counterpoints Lecture with Kristie Soares, Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies
, Zoom meeting ID: 940 2532 5981

Free and Open to Everyone

Professor Soares will deliver the inaugural AMRC Counterpoints Lecture (featuring interdisciplinary distinguished music scholars) with her talk, "Dancing With Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival." This presentation explores the evolution of Celia Cruz’s signature catchphrase ����ú������&�Բ�����;[sugar] from her early career with Fania Records, to her later music with Sony Music, and finally to its posthumous adoption by queer fans of color both at her funeral and in the aftermath of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre. In doing so the talk argues that ����ú������&�Բ�����;represented an embodied way to negotiate the patriarchal norms of the artist’s records labels, a mode of pushing back against the aspirational whiteness and heteronormativity of the Cuban community, and a model for queer of color survival in a murderous world.

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The faculty and staff of the Department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) support the  for racial justice on September 8th and 9th, 2020. The national strike has been called by Anthea Butler (Religious Studies, Africana Studies, Univ of Pennsylvania) and Kevin Gannon (History, Grand View University) in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI, and the many other police murders of African Americans of all genders in recent months and across history. As a department, we stand in solidarity with BIPOC students and community members to take a collective stand against police violence against Black communities and other communities of color. We encourage our faculty, staff, and affiliates to support the strike in any way possible. We encourage supervisors of staff and graduate instructors to support their supervisees who are engaging in the work of racial justice, either by taking time aside from work, or in other ways. Some ways of supporting the strike are listed here: . We also refer back to our joint statement with WGST/Ethnic Studies from this summer: WGST Condemns Racist Police Violence

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Links:

#CUScholarStrike, from diversifyCUnow: https://www.diversifycunow.com/cuscholarstrike

Scholar Strike, by Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon: https://academeblog.org/2020/09/02/scholar-strike/

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The Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder condemn the police killing of Mr. George Floyd. This killing adds to a long list of  killed by police since 2005, not taking into account acts of police brutality resulting in grievous bodily harm and deaths while in police or sheriff's custody.

Mr. Floyd’s public murder adds to a spate of police killings of Black people in the past few months of the COVID 19 pandemic. Breonna Taylor was shot in her own bed at home in Louisville Kentucky. Ahmaud Arbery was hunted and killed while jogging in Georgia. Tony McDade, a Black transgender man, was killed by officers in Florida. These police killings come at a time where the COVID 19 pandemic is causing much higher rates of death in Black, Latinx and tribal communities, especially the Navajo Nation. We urge our campus community to take note of  for Black, Latinx, Native and other communities of color. We also urge public attention to how these acts of violence are racialized and gendered, with Black people in every gender group being disproportionately vulnerable to police violence.

As departments whose work is informed by intersectional antiracist, feminist, queer, and transgender scholarship and activism, we condemn the ongoing criminalization of black people and the glorification of police violence against black people. We demand justice for the family of Mr. George Floyd and all families who have lost loved ones to racist police violence. We denounce the ongoing onslaught of violence against peaceful protesters in Colorado and across the United States and the world in the wake of this horrific murder. We call for an end to the increased militarization and funding of police forces and the prison industrial complex, and for states and counties to invest in better schools, job training and empowerment for marginalized communities.

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