"El Retorno al Valle" Literary Landmark Unveiling, Art Exhibit, & Symposium on Gloria Anzaldúa.

EL RETORNO AL VALLE: COMMUNITY EVENTS, LITERARY LANDMARK UNVEILING, ART EXHIBITION & SYMPOSIUM ON GLORIA ANZALDÚA March 27 & 28, 2022 UTRGV Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) and partners invite the campus and community to attend “El Retorno Al Valle,” a symposium, art exhibit, and literary landmark unveiling in honor of Gloria Anzaldúa’s work. Scholars, poets, activists, and visual artists from the Rio Grande Valley and from beyond the region will gather to consider the impacts of Anzaldúa’s work with a look to the future. The day before the symposium, there are two community-based pre-symposium events in the Rio Grande Valley.

Sunday, March 27, 2022 Pre-Symposium Community Events 10:00 A.M. CST Valle de la Paz Cemetery, Hargill, TX Readings of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Work 2:00 P.M. CST Museum of South Texas History 200 N. Closner Blvd, Edinburg, TX Pre-symposium Presentation on Gloria Anzaldúa

Monday, March 28, 2022 Symposium & Art Exhibit 8:30 A.M.-3:45 P.M. CST UTRGV Edinburg Ballroom Free and open to the public Light breakfast will begin at 8:30 A.M., and lunch will be available at 11:45 A.M. Live English/Spanish interpretation will be available.

An art exhibit of work influenced and inspired by Anzaldúa will run simultaneously with the symposium.

Literary Landmark Unveiling 4:00-5:00 P.M. CST UTRGV Edinburg Library Courtyard

Closing Reception 5:00-6:00 P.M. CST UTRGV Edinburg Library Lobby

ABOUT GLORIA ANZALDÚA Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was a queer Chicana poet, writer, and scholar. She was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley and was a farmworker. She was valedictorian of Edinburg High School in 1962, graduated from UTRGV legacy institution Pan American College in 1968, and taught in the PSJA school district from 1967-1973. Anzaldúa attended graduate school at UT Austin and at UC Santa Cruz, where she obtained a PhD posthumously.

Anzaldúa

wrote

and

published

numerous

texts

including

Borderlands/La

Frontera: The New Mestiza and Luz en lo Oscuro/Light in the Dark: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality. Anzaldúa served as editor/co-editor of several anthologies, including This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation. Her work

is

Reader

also

collected

edited

children’s

by

books:

in

Interviews/Entrevistas

AnaLouise

Friends

Keating.

from

the

Anzaldúa

Other

and is

The

also

Side/Amigos

Gloria

the del

Anzaldúa

author Otro

of

two

Lado

and

Prietita and the Ghost Woman/Prietita y La Llorona.

In her book Borderlands/La Frontera (Aunt Lute Books 1987) in the essay "How to Tame a Wild Tongue," Anzaldúa writes about her university experience in the 1960's: "At Pan American University, I, and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents" (76). Her ensuing work and life are testaments to her contributions in numerous areas and fields of study. Presenters will discuss these impacts--past and present-and look into the future.

Bronco. Edinburg, Tex: Pan American University, 1966, 1967, 1968. Print.

BRIEF HISTORY OF ANZALDÚA EVENTS IN THE RGV To our knowledge, Gloria Anzaldúa did not present at her alma mater after her books were published. Public efforts to honor Anzaldúa's work began in her home region after she passed away in 2004. The grassroots and dynamic Gloria Anzaldúa Legacy (GAL) Project formed in 2007, organizing and hosting presentations in the community, making zines, and exhibits, including at Anzaldúa's alma mater campus, UTRGV legacy institution forefront

UT of

Pan this

American. labor.

Local

Charged

poets with

and

helping

activists raise

were

at

awareness

the of

Anzaldúa's work on her alma mater campus, in 2008 a poetry professor hosted a talk on Anzaldúa by the founder of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (SSGA) on campus. At that time it was suggested she make an annual campus event with different presenters. "El Retorno" has been an annual campus event since then and not possible without the dedication,

service,

and

collaboration

between

community

members,

students, faculty, and staff. Most of these events were accomplished with minimal financial support for guest presenters. When UTRGV CMAS was created about a decade ago by many of the same folks working on Anzaldúa events, El Retorno had secured annual support to host one speaker per year. At the same time of all of this, philosophy professors on campus hosted an Anzaldúa Speakers Series as well.

Needless to say, this symposium and literary landmark represent over 15years of efforts and collaborations by the RGV community, campus, and

the

SSGA.

UTRGV

CMAS

and

SSGA

applied

for

the

literary

landmark with GAL Project support. And once again, we will gather for these events, and this time with greater support across campus and with community

sponsors.

We

information

and/or

event

cmas@utrgv.edu.

look

forward

to

accommodations,

these

events.

please

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contact

more us

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BRIEF HISTORY OF ANZALDÚA EVENTS IN THE RGV: In 2007, I dr ew Gloria E. Anzaldúa to follow th e teaching She taught s of my mot me as a se her. amstress, w e dress sain ts, those di hear storie vine figures s about an d their stru we ggles reso nate with ou Drawing he r own hum r portrait w anity. as the undr essing and dressing fo and giving r the act of at the alta r. So I dres asking sed her: I pl ac ed halos of her head.

These swirl water surro s Aztec artis unding ts created to symboliz as life and e the flow speech as of water song. Acro ss her ches t, a pin of away from two snake each othe heads face r; a contra diction, a bl ack and w her at the hite set of middle in so forms with fts shades of gray. In her ears, a embracing su n and moo each othe n r in unison.

It was a la borious task representa tion of Glo of fo rm ing a ria Anzald úa and he r teaching s. I was se beyond the eking to go visual and seek the es sence of he r being in fu ll joy.

-Beatriz G uzmán Velá squez

Students have always volunteered their time in numerous ways to help carry-out El Retorno and without them, this work would not be possible. Since 2007, we have adopted Guzmán Velásquez's illustration for

promotional

materials. Today, we honor and thank her and the countless other students and community members who have generously given their time, talent & labor to honor Anzaldúa in the RGV at UTPA & UTRGV over the years.

EL RETORNO AL VALLE: LITERARY LANDMARK UNVEILING, ART EXHIBIT & SYMPOSIUM ON GLORIA ANZALDÚA Sunday March 27, 2022

PRE-SYMPOSIUM EVENTS

10am & 2pm CST

ANZALDÚA'S RESTING PLACE Valle de la Paz Cemetery Hargill, Texas

10am

Readings of Gloria Anzaldúa's Work

EL RETORNO AL VALLE – A PRE-SYMPOSIUM TALK ON GLORIA ANZALDÚA Museum of South Texas History Edinburg, TX

2pm

Featuring Anel I. Flores and Alexandra Nichole Salazar, this presentation, hosted in partnership with the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and our numerous symposium partners, will focus on the impact of borderlands poet and scholar Gloria Anzaldúa’s work, and the history of the LGBTQIA+ community in the borderlands.

The presentation will be moderated by Dr. Carolina Monsiváis (STC).

ART EXHIBIT

Monday March 28, 2022 8:30am - 3:45pm CST

NEPANTLA POP-UP EXHIBIT Curated by Ruby E. Garza, La Chicharra Studio UTRGV Edinburg Ballroom

FEATURED ARTISTS Ruby De La Fuente

Celeste De Luna

Josie Del Castillo

Anel I. Flores

Michel Flores Tavizón

Ruby E. Garza

Nansi Guevara

Beatriz Guzmán Velasquez

QueenKillahBee

Alexis Ramos

Rawmirez

Nydia Salinas

Jessica Denise Villegas

Julietta Rivera

SYMPOSIUM ON GLORIA ANZALDÚA UTRGV Edinburg Ballroom Monday, March 28, 2022

REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST

8:30am CST

INTERPRETACIÓN AL ESPAÑOL DISPONIBLE MUSIC - DJ QUEENKILLAHBEE BIENVENIDA

8:45am CST

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, Rosalva Resendiz

WELCOME, Emmy Pérez & Stephanie Alvarez

PANEL 1

9:00am - 10:15am CST

GLORIA ANZALDÚA, THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY & TEJAS Priscilla Celina "Lina" Suarez (Gloria Anzaldúa Legacy Project) Silvia Patricia Solís (UTRGV) Anel I. Flores (La Otra Taller Nepantla) Inés Hernández-Ávila (UC Davis) Moderator: Noreen Rivera (UTRGV)

SYMPOSIUM ON GLORIA ANZALDÚA UTRGV Edinburg Ballroom

PANEL 2

10:30am -11:45am CST

GLORIA ANZALDÚA’S IMPACT I Norma E. Cantú (Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa & Trinity U.) Graciela Sánchez (Esperanza Peace & Justice Center) Alicia Gaspar de Alba (UCLA) Moderator: Cynthia Paccacerqua (UTRGV)

LUNCH & POETRY PERFORMANCE

11:45am - 12:45pm CST

Host: Priscilla Celina "Lina" Suarez (Gloria Anzaldúa Legacy Project) Ari Chagoya (doula, sobadora, curandera) César L. de León (UTRGV) Daniel García Ordaz (McAllen Poet Laureate 2023 & Texas Tech U.) Erika Garza (South Texas College) Amalia Ortiz (SAY Sí) José Antonio Rodríguez (UTRGV) Veronica “Lady Mariposa” Sandoval (Washington State University) Art Statement Presentation: Beatriz Guzmán Velásquez

SYMPOSIUM ON GLORIA ANZALDÚA UTRGV Edinburg Ballroom

PANEL 3

1:00pm - 2:15pm CST

GLORIA ANZALDÚA'S IMPACT II Rebeca L. Hey-Colón (Temple University) Celeste De Luna (Northwest Vista College) Sheila Contreras (Michigan State University) Moderator: Stephanie Alvarez (UTRGV)

PANEL 4

2:30pm - 3:45pm CST

GLORIA ANZALDUA'S IMPACT & PERSPECTIVES INTO THE FUTURE Ana-Maurine Lara (University of Oregon) Sergio Gael Barrera (University of Michigan) Alexandra Nichole Salazar (Jotxs y Recuerdos & UT Austin) Moderator: Aaron Hinojosa (UTRGV)

Photo: Giard, Robert

LITERARY LANDMARK UNVEILING & RECEPTION UTRGV University Library Courtyard

LIVE Conjunto

4:00pm - 4:45pm CST

Los PoderOsos PSJA Early College High School

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Rosalva Resendiz, UTRGV

REMARKS Reading of Anzaldúa's Work by Local Poets Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa Gloria Anzaldúa Legacy Project UTRGV Center for Mexican American Studies

REMARKS Texas Center for the Book

Member of Anzaldúa’s Family UTRGV University Library Lobby

RECEPTION

5:00pm - 6:00pm CST

REFRESHMENTS LIVE CONJUNTO, LOS PODEROSOS - PSJA ECHS OFRENDA/ALTAR - ARI CHAGOYA & UTRGV COMMUNITY RECEPTION LIBRARY ARCHIVES EXHIBIT ON ANZALDÚA "El Retorno Al Valle: Celebrating Gloria Anzaldúa" Special Collections & Archives celebrates the literary contributions of Gloria Anzaldúa by displaying

her

books

and

the

works

of

those

she

inspired.

Pan

American

yearbooks will also be on display to honor her time at our legacy institution.

UNVEILING OF A GLORIA ANZALDÚA PAINTING Painting by Kathy Sosa donated by Sandra Cisneros in partnership with the South Texas Literacy Coalition

College

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS SERGIO G. BARRERA University of Michigan

PANEL 3

Sergio G. Barrera is a native of the Rio Grande Valley and alumnus of MAS at UTPA/UTRGV.

He

is

a

current

Doctoral

Candidate

in

the

Department

of

American Culture at the University of Michigan where his works finds that men of color in homosocial spaces use brotherhood and performance as methods that intervene with heteropatriarchal structures that influence men to behave in hypermasculine tendencies. In addition, Barrera values community formations, inclusive spaces, emotional well-being, and expressive freedoms in scholarship, teaching, and practice. He has published essays in Rio Bravo: Journal of the Borderlands and El Mundo Zurdo. He also is a recipient of the 2017 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Frederick A. Cervantes award for best essay by a graduate student.

NORMA E. CANTÚ Trinity University Dr. Norma E. Cantú, a daughter of the borderlands, is the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is the founder and director of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, and organized El Mundo Zurdo, a gathering of Anzalduistas from

2007–2019.

Her

most

recent

publications

include

two

anthologies:

Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Pedagogies and Practices for our Classrooms and our

Communities,

Mexicana

Fashions:

Politics,

Self-Adornment,

and

Identity

Construction, and Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art; Cabañuelas,

a

novel;

and

Meditación

Fronteriza:

Poems

of

Love,

Life,

and

Labor. She serves on the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center Conjunto de Nepantleras

and

the

boards

of

the

Macondo

Writers

Workshop

and

the

American Folklore Society as Past President. An activist scholar, poet, writer, and folklorist she has published widely in the field of Chicane Studies and Border Studies.

ARI CHAGOYA Ari Chagoya is a 21st century queer, Indigenous Curandera, Mera Nepantlera, Doula/Childbirth Compañera, Writer, Poet, Artist, and Godmother.

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS SHEILA CONTRERAS Michigan State University

PANEL 3

Sheila Contreras is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. She directed MSU’s Chicano/Latino Studies Program from 2008-2015. From 2015-2017, she served as Associate Dean of Curriculum, Diversity and Inclusion, in the College of Arts & Letters at MSU. Her research and teaching interests include Chicanx and U.S. Latinx literature, multi-ethnic literatures, comparative indigeneities, & women's studies.

Her

first

book,

Blood

Lines:

Myth,

Indigenism

and

Chicana/o

Literature

(Texas, 2008) examined the archaeology of literary indigenism in Mexican American creative

&

political

writing.

Her

current

research

moves

in

two

directions:

one

explores the relationship between Mexican-Americans and land through comparatist settler-colonialist contexts, and the other examines Latinx student success in higher education. She has essays in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity (2018), Keywords in Latina

and

Latino

Studies

(NYU

2017)

and

Teaching

Chicana

and

Mexicana

Literatures (MLA 2020). A first-generation college student, Contreras began her journey to the PhD in the community college system of South Texas.

CÉSAR L. DE LEÓN University of Texas Rio Grande Valley César

L.

de

León

is

the

author

of

speaking

with

grackles

by

soapberry

trees

(FlowerSong 2021), which received the 2022 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. He is a poet-organizer for Poets Against Walls and his poetry has been published in various anthologies and journals such as Along the River 2: More Voices From the Rio Grande and Juventud!: Growing up on the Border among other anthologies and journals. De León is a Golden Circle Award recipient from The University of Columbia Press and he holds an MFA in creative writing with a certificate in Mexican American Studies from UTRGV.

CELESTE DE LUNA Northwest Vista College, Metzli Press Celeste De Luna is an artist/printmaker from the lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.

Rooted

in

a

Chicana

feminist

perspective,

she

seeks

to

tease

out

the

intricacies of living in and along the borderlands in her art as well as a narrative world builder who envisions the past, present and futuristic frontera. De Luna is a self-taught printmaker whose work includes large-scale woodcut prints and fabric installation.

She

is

a

co-founder

of

the

socially

engaged

art

collective

Las

Imaginistas, an accomplished home cook, and cultural advocate. Her recipes appear in the book Don’t Count the Tortillas by Adan Medrano & she also appears in his film Truly

Texas

Mexican

advocating

for

traditional

food,

street

vendors

&

cultural

lifeways. Currently, she lives in San Antonio, works out of her home studio, Metzli Press and teaches Mexican American Studies and Art for Northwest Vista College.

“A

true

daughter

of

the

borderlands,

her

art

celebrates

exceptional on the border,” writes Inés Hernández-Ávila.

the

quotidian

and

the

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS ANEL I. FLORES La Otra Taller Nepantla Anel I. Flores’ craft manifests as graphic memoir, poetry, fiction, silver, and paintings,

PANEL 3as

a

continuation

movement

in

&

art

evolution

&

of

literature,

the

conversations

now

infused

started

by

by

the

latina/e/x,

Xicana/e/x

transfeminism,

intersectionality, queer politics & resistencia. Her work combines, oscillates between, and blurs these different disciplines in an ultimate goal to provide ancestral healing, present-day

joy,

&

a

re-centering

of

Womyn

of

Color,

Latina/e/x,

BIPOC

and

LGBTQIA+ Womyn, Femmes and Gender Non-Binary folx. She is founder and director of La Otra Taller Nepantla Residency and an MFA in Creative Writing. Her awards include Catalyst for Change, Best Local Poet, Women’s Advocate of the Year, the Nebrija Creadores Award, Best Of SA Author, Chingona in Literature Award, Ancinas Award at Squaw Valley, NALAC Fund for the Arts Award, Acción Women Inspiring Women & others. She is co-editor of forthcoming Jota Anthology and author of Lambda award-nominated book Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas.

DANIEL GARCÍA ORDAZ McAllen Poet Laureate 2023 & Texas Tech University TEDx Speaker and Pushcart Prize nominee Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, is a teacher at La Joya Early College and South Texas College. García appears in "ALTAR: Cruzando fronteras/Building bridges,” an homage to our Gloria.

He is a co-founder of the Gloria Anzaldúa Legacy Project as well as the Rio Grande Valley

International

Poetry

Festival.

García’s

writing

appears

in

Living

Beyond

Borders: Growing Up Mexican In America (2021), I SING: THE BODY (Poems About Body Image) (2021), Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century (2020), Poetry of Resistance: Voices For Social Justice

(2016),

and

Juventud! Growing up on the

Border: Stories and Poems (2013). His books include You Know What I'm Sayin'?

(2006) and Cenzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment (2018.) García earned an MFA in Creative Writing from UTRGV. He is a songwriter, former journalist, a Navy veteran. He will serve as 2023 McAllen Poet Laureate.

ERIKA GARZA South Texas College Erika Garza grew up in Elsa, Texas, and has been reading and performing her poetry in the Río Grande Valley since 2001. Garza received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas Pan American. A writing instructor at South Texas College, she lives in McAllen. She has served as the poetry editor for New Border Voices: An Anthology (Texas A&M University Press, 2014) and

¡Juventud!

Growing Up on the

Border (VAO Publishing, 2013). Additionally, her poetry has been featured online in La Bloga, Con Tinta, and Poets Against SB 1070. Her work has also appeared in Texas Observer

&

BorderSenses.

She

published by Flower Song Press.

is

the

author

of

the

poetry

collection

Unwoven,

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA University of California, Los Angeles

PANEL 3

A

native

of

the

El

Paso/Juárez

border,

Alicia

Gaspar

de

Alba

is

a

Chicana

writer/scholar/activist who uses prose, poetry, and theory for social change. With a

Ph.D.

in

American

Studies

from

the

University

of

New

Mexico,

Alicia

is

a

Professor of Chicana/o Studies, English, and Gender Studies at UCLA, where she has taught since 1994, when she was hired as a founding faculty member of the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. She teaches courses in Chicana lesbian/feminist literature and theory, border studies, barrio popular culture & bilingual creative writing. Her research focuses on persecuted women across time & culture, particularly those who have been labeled “bad women” because they defy the sex & gender dictates that patriarchy enforces on the female body. Alicia has published 12 books, among them, award-winning novels,

poetry

and

academic

texts.

illustrated

biography

short

With

her of

story wife,

Gloria

collections, Alma

anthologies

Lopez,

Anzaldúa.

she

For

is

more

&

single-authored

currently

working

about

Alicia

enrolled

on

on

check

an out

https://aliciagaspardealba.net.

INÉS HERNÁNDEZ-ÁVILA University of California, Davis Professor

Hernández-Avila

is

Niimiipuu/Nez

Perce,

the

Colville

Reservation, Washington, on her mother's side, and Tejana on her father's side. A scholar, poet, and visual artist, her research and teaching focus on contemporary Indigenous literature and religious traditions of the Americas. She is one of the six founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). In April 2017, she received the Frank Bonilla Public Intellectual Award from the Latino Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association. In August 2017, she received a Community Award from the Organización de Organizaciones, Chiapas, Mexico,

for

her

work

as

an

ally

to

the

cultural

and

linguistic

revitalization

movements of Mayan peoples in Chiapas. She is a member of Luk'upsíimey/The North Star Collective, a Niimiipuu/Nez Perce creative writers’ group. She was an activist in the Movimiento in Tejas--she became friends with Gloria in the mid1970s and considers her a sacred muse.

Do work that matters.

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SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS REBECA L. HEY-COLÓN Temple University

PANEL 3 Dr. Hey-Colón is Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University. She specializes in Afro-Latinx and Latinx Studies, Caribbean Studies, Border Studies, and Afro-Diasporic Spirituality. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, she earned her bachelor's degree from Haverford College and her Ph.D. in Romance

Languages

and

Literatures

project, Channeling

Knowledges:

Worlds, centers

multi-directional

the

from

Harvard

Afro-Diasporic flows

of

University.

Waters

water,

in

Her

Latinx

migration,

current

and

book

Caribbean

gender,

race,

and

spirituality in contemporary Latinx and Caribbean cultural production. Hey-Colón’s work is forthcoming in Aztlán, and can be found in Chicana/Latina Studies Journal, Latino Studies, and Small Axe, among others. In 2018, she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson

Career

Castañeda

Enhancement

Postdoctoral

Fellowship,

Fellow

at

the

and

in

2017-2018

University

of

Texas

she at

was

the

Austin’s

Carlos

Center

E. for

Mexican American Studies (CMAS).

AARON HINOJOSA University of Texas Río Grande Valley Hinojosa holds a Master of Science, College Student Affairs, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. Aaron is the Program Coordinator for the Center for Diversity & Inclusion and DREAM Resource Center and has been at UTRGV since August 2017. He has

developed

and

oversees

the

DREAM

Zone

Advocate

Training

which

aims

to

educate the UTRGV community on the realities of DACA/undocumented students and provide support. He has also developed the LEAP Diversity & Inclusion Workshop which is an interactive and educational workshop regarding identity, privilege, language, allyship, and other important social justice elements. Aaron also manages the Ally Safe

Zone

Training

which

helps

educate

the

members

of

the

community

about

LGBTQ+ realities and provides resources for support. Aaron also continues to develop programming efforts that are innovative and interactive with diversity and inclusivity in mind either through collaborations (on and off-campus) or through new projects (like the Community Connections, People Series, or Healing Circles).

ANA-MAURINE LARA University of Portland Ana-Maurine Lara is a national award-winning novelist, poet, and scholar. She is the author of Erzulie’s Skirt, Kohnjehr Woman, and When the Sun Once Again Sang to the People.

Her

academic

Streetwalking:

LGBTQ

books

Lives

include

and

Protest

Queer in

the

Freedom:

Black

Dominican

focuses on questions of Black and Indigenous freedom.

Sovereignty

Republic.

Lara’s

and work

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS CAROLINA MONSIVÁIS South Texas College

PANEL 3

Carolina Monsiváis is the author of Somewhere Between Houston and El Paso, Elisa’s Hunger, and Descent. A dedicated advocate in the field of domestic violence and sexual assault, she has worked with survivors in Texas, New Mexico and Juárez. She earned degrees from the University of Houston (B.A), New Mexico State University (M.F.A.) and the University of Texas at El Paso (Ph.D.). Monsiváis currently teaches History

at

South

Texas

College

in

McAllen,

Texas,

where

she

also

proudly

coordinates the Mexican American Studies Program.

AMALIA ORTIZ SAY Sí Amalia Ortiz was awarded the 2020 American Book Award for Oral Literature and appeared on three seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO. NBC Latino named her book of poetry, Rant. Chant. Chisme. one of “10 Great Latino Books of 2015,” It was also awarded the 2015 Writers' League of Texas Poetry Discovery Prize. She was chosen to speak at TEDx McAllen 2015. She was awarded the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Grant, a writing residency at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, and the 2018 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant to film videos for her latest book The Canción Cannibal Cabaret & Other Songs. She won a 2021 City of San Antonio Individual Artist Grant to create poetry inspired by women in punk. She is a CantoMundo Fellow and a Hedgebrook writer-in-residence alumna.

Amalia received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

CYNTHIA PACCACERQUA University of Texas Río Grande Valley Dr. Cynthia Paccacerqua is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty in MAS

at

UTRGV.

Argentina,

she

Paccacerqua

A

Baltimore

received

specializes

her in

native Ph.D

social,

who

in

spent

her

Philosophy

political,

and

formative

from

SUNY

cultural

years

in

Rosario

Stony

Brook.

Dr.

philosophy

within

the

traditions of Western, Latina-o, and Latin American/ Decolonial Philosophy, as well as in Modern Philosophy, Kant’s theoretical philosophy in particular. She earned a MA in Latin American Studies from Stanford University. She is currently working on two research projects: 1. On the underlying epistemological relationships between ideal liberal social contract theory and neoclassical economics, within a framework of critical race theory. 2. On the critical philosophy of Gloria Anzaldúa, grounded in the history of deep South and South Texas. In 2014 Dr. Paccacerqua was awarded the

University

Teaching

Excellence

Award.

She

served

as

the

Coordinator for the Anzaldúa Speaker Series in Philosophy at UTRGV.

Department’s

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS ROSALVA RESENDIZ University of Texas Río GrandeValley

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Rosalva Resendiz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice.

Her work engages Critical Chicana Feminism with a focus on “intersectionality” and identity

politics,

activism

and

considering research

colonialism,

intersect

decolonialism,

Border

and

postcolonialism.

Studies/Chicana

Her

Feminism/Social

Justice/Critical Criminology. She is researching and has published on Corridos and Soldaderas as well as indigenous resistance and injustice on the border.

NOREEN RIVERA University of Texas Río Grande Valley Noreen Rivera is associate professor of literature and cultural studies at UTRGV and coordinator of the UTRGV Voces of a Pandemic Oral History Project, a public facing digital archive, partnered with the University of Texas at Austin Voces Oral History Center,

that

preserves

stories

of

Latinx

communities

affected

by

the

Covid-19

pandemic. Her research studies nineteenth and twentieth century Mexican American cultural

producers,

via

interdisciplinary

frameworks,

across

regional,

national,

transborder and global geographies. She is currently working on a critical edition titled The Far East Journals and Other Cold War Era Writings of Américo Paredes, which recovers Américo Paredes’s life writing in the context of the global Cold War. Her

essays

appear

in

Aztlán,

the

Journal

of

South

Texas,

Recovering

the

U.S.

Hispanic Literary Heritage, Chicana/Latina Studies, and Oxford Bibliographies. Her poetry appears in Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border.

JOSÉ ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ University of Texas Río Grande Valley Jose Antonio Rodríguez’s books include the poetry collections The Shallow End of Sleep, Backlit Hour and This American Autopsy, and the memoir House Built on Ashes. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation,

Latin

American

Literature

Today,

the

anthology

Nepantla

Familias,

and

elsewhere. His awards and honors include the Bob Bush Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Discovery Award from the Writers’ League of Texas, finalist citations for the PEN America Los Angeles award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize, among others. He holds degrees in Biology and Theatre Arts and a PhD in English from Binghamton

University.

He

is

editor-in-chief

of

the

national

literary

journal

riverSedge and teaches in the MFA program at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS ALEXANDRA NICHOLE SALAZAR University of Texas Austin

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Alexandra Nichole Salazar (she/her/ella) is a PhD student in the Mexican American and Latina/o Studies program at UT Austin. Her research focuses on queer kinships and untold histories of South Texas through performance ethnography, archives, and narrative collections. She is also the host of Jotxs y Recuerdos, a podcast dedicated to archiving queer stories from the Rio Grande Valley and other borderlands. Follow Jotxs y Recuerdos @jotxsyrecuerdos_podcast

GRACIELA SÁNCHEZ Esperanza Peace and Justice Center Graciela follows in the footsteps of her mother and abuelitas, strong neighborhood women of color cultural workers and activists of San Antonio. As a Buena Gente of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, a community-based cultural arts/social justice organization, Graciela works with staff and community to develop programs that culturally ground working class and poor people of color, queer people and women, individuals who are survivors of cultural genocide. Facilitating conversations on

issues

of

colonization,

genocide,

power,

violence,

racism,

sexism,

and

homophobia among others, Graciela works with community members to develop and curate programs such as CineMujer, Uprooted: Tierra, Gente, y Cultura, Palestinians, and Other Occupied Peoples, as well as organize gente to challenge oppressive laws in San Antonio, the United States, and the world.

VERONICA SANDOVAL Washington State University Veronica Sandoval is a PhD candidate at Washington State University and graduate of UTPA/UTRGV’s MFA in creative writing program. Sandoval’s research interest includes La Chola, the Chola Vida/OG Chola Pinup Network, the Ovarian Psycos, Adelitas, Pachucas, homegirl aesthetics, chola agency, and an emphasis on Chicana feminist epistemology that centers Chicana legacies of resistance. Her frameworks include Chicana feminism, Global Feminism, Chicana Materialism, Motherworks, and Queer of Color Critique. Her research covers a wide array of subjects and political practices such as immigration, the prison industrial complex, cholas, chola agency, Adelitas, Pachucas, lowriders, lowrider arte, and Chola cultural productions such as photography,

art,

barrio

print

magazines,

social

media,

podcasts,

blogs,

and

youtube channels. She is also the spoken word artist Lady Mariposa, a sCHOLAr and poet who has been performing for over 20 years. Her writing has appeared in several anthologies and a spoken word CD.

SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS SILVIA PATRICIA SOLÍS University of Texas Río Grande Valley

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Silvia Patricia Solís is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies and Environmental Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement.

She is the Art Editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Utah in 2020. Her research expands on land and placebased epistemologies, pedagogies, and methodologies by tracing saberes curativos, curative knowing, and practices people hold in relation to taking care and curing within family and community. It centers intergenerational learning, remembering, and everyday practices in the home and gardens of Indigenous, Black, and Afrodescendant

peoples

in

the

diaspora

living

along

the

U.S.

Mexico

border.

U.S.

Feminist of color, Indigenous Feminists, and decolonial feminist theory are at the center of her theoretical foundations.

PRISCILLA CELINA SUÁREZ Gloria Anzaldúa Legacy Project Priscillla Celina “Lina” Suárez is a Mexican American author who was the 2015-17 McAllen Poet Laureate. She is co-founder of the Gloria Anzaldúa Legacy Project (GAL) which was formed to honor the legacy of Anzaldúa and share her work with a broader public. During her childhood, she lived surrounded by the farmlands of the then small colonia of Las Milpas, TX, where she first heard many of the cuentos she shares in Cuentos Wela Told Me. Her poetry collection, La La Landia: A Journey Through my Frontera CD Shuffle, is forthcoming this Spring from FlowerSong Press.

STEPHANIE ALVAREZ University of Texas Río Grande Valley Stephanie Alvarez is an Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies and the Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She has been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching as the U.S. Professor of the Year, the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education

with

the

Outstanding

Latino/a

Faculty

in

Higher

Ed

award,

and

the

University of Texas System Board of Regents with the Outstanding Teaching Award.

She is the first-ever Director of Mexican American Studies and founding Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at UTRGV legacy institution, the University of Texas Pan-American. She is co-editor of AmeRícan: Essays on the Work of Tato Laviera. She has authored numerous essays on the intersection of Latinx education, gender, language, identity, and culture. You can find her most recent co-authored essay in the Harvard Educational Review. Her work is motivated by and grounded in her lived experiences as a Latina student, educator, and mother of three.

VISUAL ARTISTS RUBY DE LA FUENTE

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Texas-based interdisciplinary artist Ruby De La Fuente, has been honing her skills in 2-Dimensional art since, 2011. Originally, Ruby’s practice began in printmaking, oil and

encaustic

paintings.

It

has

evolved

from

creating

evocative

paintings

of

domestic violence to prints on motherhood. As her life transforms, she’s found herself going back to her roots in printmaking. Currently, she’s exploring the challenges of motherhood, through race and personal narratives.

CELESTE DE LUNA Celeste De Luna is an artist/printmaker from the lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.

Rooted

in

a

Chicana

feminist

perspective,

she

seeks

to

tease

out

the

intricacies of living in and along the borderlands in her art as well as a narrative world builder who envisions the past, present, and futuristic frontera. De Luna is a self-taught printmaker whose work includes large-scale woodcut prints and fabric installation.

She

is

a

co-founder

of

the

socially

engaged

art

collective

Las

Imaginistas, an accomplished home cook, and cultural advocate. Her recipes appear in the book Don’t Count the Tortillas by Adan Medrano and she also appears in his film Truly Texas Mexican advocating for traditional food, street vendors, and cultural lifeways. Currently, she lives in San Antonio, works out of her home studio, Metzli Press, and teaches Mexican-American Studies and Art for Northwest Vista College.

“A true daughter of the borderlands, her art celebrates the quotidian and the exceptional

on

the

border,”

writes

Inés

Hernández-Ávila.

You

may

find

more

information about her work at www.celestedeluna.com

JOSIE DEL CASTILLO Josie Del Castillo is an artist born and raised in Brownsville, Texas. In 2020, she earned her MFA from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Best known for her vivid portraits, Del Castillo focuses on the empowerment of the female form, personal growth, and reflections of her Mexican American upbringing on La Frontera. Like most borderland cities, Del Castillo’s hometown of Brownsville is culturally and politically complex. Yet, Del Castillo ignores negative representations and perpetuated stereotypes of the region and its border communities by politicians and news media.

Instead, she focuses on representing the region with warmth and positivity through colorful depictions as vibrant as its people. Her work combines self-portraiture, portraits of community members, and the scenic landscapes of the Rio Grande Valley. Most recently, she’s incorporated her fondness for plants, which she sees as a symbol of growth. She explains, “We all grow under different conditions and have specific needs to remember to nurture.”

VISUAL ARTISTS ANEL I. FLORES Anel I. Flores’ craft manifests as graphic memoir, poetry, fiction, silver, and paintings,

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as a continuation and evolution of the conversations started by the Xicana/e/x movement

in

art

intersectionality,

and

queer

between,

and

ancestral

healing,

blurs

literature, politics

these

present

now

and

different day

joy,

infused

resistencia. disciplines and

a

by

latina/e/x,

Her in

work

an

combines,

ultimate

re-centering

transfeminism,

of

goal

oscillates

to

Womyn

provide

of

Color,

Latina/e/x, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Womyn, Femmes and Gender Non-Binary folx. She is founder and director of La Otra Taller Nepantla Residency and an MFA in Creative Writing.

Her

awards

include

Catalyst

for

Change,

Best

Local

Poet,

Women’s

Advocate of the Year, the Nebrija Creadores Award, Best Of SA Author, Chingona in Literature Award, Ancinas Award at Squaw Valley, NALAC Fund for the Arts Award, Accion Women Inspiring Women & others.

MICHEL FLORES TAVIZÓN Michel Flores Tavizón is an artist, printmaker and graphic designer born and raised in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Her work focuses on topics like women’s issues, Mexican culture, identity and immigration. She received her BFA in Art with concentration on graphic design from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2021. “Ni de aquí ni de allá” is a woodcut print reflecting the duality of cultures in border towns. This is a self-portrait inspired by Frida Kahlo’s “Las dos Fridas” painting, portraying my two identities. The Mexican side, which represents my roots, and the American side that represents where I stand now. Standing in between two countries, makes you feel like you belong to neither, and to both at the same time. Gloria Anzaldúa has written about a similar feeling in her books, “Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an 'alien' element.”

RUBY E. GARZA Ruby E. Garza is a multidisciplinary Chicana artist from Brownsville, TX who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (2019). Garza’s work deals with childhood memories, machismo, and immigrationrelated issues. She has had solo exhibitions at AreVivo Art Studio, Brownsville (2018) and the Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Center, Brownsville (2018). She has also been included in exhibitions throughout Texas including the Brownsville Fine Art Museum (2018); PlatForm 204, Harlingen (2018); Mi Vida Loca Gallery, Corpus Christi (2019); La Peña and the Visual Arts Center, Austin (2020). Garza has volunteered as an art instructor and gallery assistant at the Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Center for students from low-income homes and is currently a small business owner and gallery director of

La

Chicharra

Studio

which

functions

as

a

community

workshops, and other public events in Brownsville, Texas.

space

for

exhibitions,

VISUAL ARTISTS NANSI GUEVARA Guevara is a designer, artist, & teacher based in Brownsville, Texas. Originally PANEL 3 Nansi from Laredo, Texas, she holds a bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Design from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s in Education from Harvard University. She is currently focused on design, education, and community public art to create spaces of resistance and affirmation, and economies of community cultural wealth and support. She is a graphic designer, an illustrator, and a textile/rasquache based public artist. She runs her own freelance design & education practice, Corazón Contento, based out of Brownsville, Texas. She is an adjunct lecturer at the School of

Art

at

the

University

of

Texas

Rio

Grande

Valley.

Nansi

has

been

awarded

residencies, fellowships, & grants from the NEA, Artplace America, a Blade of Grass, NALAC, and most recently the Santa Fe Art Institute Artist Residency.

BEATRIZ GUZMÁN VELÁSQUEZ Beatriz Guzmán Velásquez is a visual artist and educator living and working in the Texas-U.S. Southwest/Mexican border region. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is an alumna from the New York Studio School and

the

University

participating

in

of

DocX

Texas-Pan Archive

Studies at Duke University.

Lab

American.

Fellowship

For with

the the

year

2021-2022,

Center

for

she

is

Documentary

Recently, she formed part of the National Association of

Latinos Arts and Culture Fellowship and completed her residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

In

2019,

she

joined

the

New

York

Foundation

for

the

Arts

Immigrant Artist Program and was awarded Artist-In-Residence at Lazuli Residency in Vermont.

She is the founder of Juana Simona, a space dedicated to creativity and

the stewardship of the land.

QUEENKILLAHBEE aka Beatriz Montejano Cultivated on both sides of the South Texas/ Tamaulipas frontera, QueenKillahBee fuses past and present sounds and juxtaposes seemingly unrelated genres to stir up both body and soul, keeping music selection as diverse as the Rio Grande Valley cultura.

She sees art, music, and dancing as a form of connection and expression

and her own way of decolonizing and rebelling against the machismo that has been so deeply ingrained. From her beginnings with Perreo Peligroso, a series of parties by women, for women and lgbtq+folx, she aimed to create an environment so they could feel safe and completely comfortable dancing and feeling themselves al 100 and to have a space free of machismo and enjoy the night out without getting harassed at every turn. As a woman who has unceasingly worked to uplift others, QueenKillahbBee definitely puts great effort into reminding women+ trans, nongender, & LGBTQs that they are strong, powerful, and deserving.

VISUAL ARTISTS ALEXIS RAMOS

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Texas

Born

&

Valley-raised

artist

Alexis

Marie

Ramos,

originally

from

Weslaco,

currently attends the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, College of Fine Arts pursuing her MFA. Her art is centralized around La Cocina, and the many roles women play

and

the

intricate

roles

of

food,

religion,

folk

medicine,

folk

healing,

and

curanderismo play with the cities along the Rio Grande Valle/Mexico border. Drawing inspiration

from

installations,

growing

paintings,

up

In

illustrate

the the

Rio

Grande

remedies

Valle

used

to

many treat

of

her

these

sculptures,

culture-bound

syndromes. Ramos who completed her BFA at UTRGV with a focus on ceramics was one of the few students who learned the art of Lost wax bronze casting having collaborated on several monumental sculptures in the Rio Grande Valley. Focusing on the process and practice using vignettes from childhood, Ramos is creating an archive of

how

local

Latino/as

of

the

region

heal

the

home,

the

family,

and

even

how

commercial objects are imbued with folk magic. Ramos explores the borders where foods, ingredients, and folk medicine customs blur. View more of her work at IG: @ms.alexisramos/ or https://alexismramos.wixsite.com/alexismramos

RAWMIREZ aka Josue Ramírez Rawmirez is a cultural worker and community advocate in the Rio Grande Valley along the US-Mexico Border. He is a multi-disciplinary artist working through visual art, installation, crafts, and performance. Rawmirez is the Director of Raw Creativity for Trucha, a multimedia collective and online platform focused on the arts, culture and social movements of the region.

JULIETTA RIVERA Born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, Julietta Rivera is a lifelong artist, maker, and storyteller. She is currently a graduate student in the Creative Writing Department at UTRGV and is working on a graphic memoir titled Torcida. She brings her authentic and unique voice to bring stories to life both with her artwork and written word. She credits Gloria Anzaldua for allowing her to be her bona fide self both in her writing, art, and personal expression."There is a rebel inside of me-the Shadow Beast. It is part of me that refuses to take orders from outside authorities. It refuses to take orders from my conscious will, it threatens the sovereignty of my rulership. It is the part of me that

hates

constraints

of

any

kind,

even

those

self-imposed.

At

the

least

hint

of

limitations on my time or space by others, it kicks out with both feet.-Bolts." -Gloria Anzaldúa

VISUAL ARTISTS JESSICA DENISE VILLEGAS

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Jessica Denise Villegas is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. She received her Bachelors of Fine Art at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley

with

dedicated

a

her

minor

concentration

artistic

career

to

in

Mexican

cultivating

a

American

new

Studies.

historical

Villegas

narrative,

has

which

is

inclusive of the Latinx/Chicanx community. Focusing on border culture, politics, and social injustice. She utilizes clay as a tool to create vessels that produce a physical presence

and

acknowledgment

of

the

long

history

of

oppression

and

misrepresentation of the Latinx/Chicanx community in U.S. history. Her works have been recently featured at the Lufrano Gallery of Art, The University of North Florida (2021); Art Space Gallery, Richmond, VA (2020); Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY (2021). View more of her works at jdenisevillegas.com.

NYDIA SALINAS Nydia Salinas, she/her (b.1998) is a visual artist who grew up in between Progreso, Texas and Nvo. Progreso, Mexico. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degreewith a concentration in ceramics- from the University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley in 2020. Salinas recently participated in an International Artist Residency: Arquetopia (2021) on Pre-Columbian Ceramics in Puebla, Mexico thanks to the support of the Center for Latin American Arts at UTRGV. Salinas explores the dialect of the Rio Grande Valley, and bases the conversation around her work on linguistic theories from text. Her ceramic vessels invite the viewer into a headspace where they can embrace their tongue and reject the idea of a “standard language”. The dynamic of her

upbringing-

and

the

community

she

has

encountered-

is

what

inspired

her

journey in sharing the lived experiences of the people living on forced borderlands.

Connect on website the nydiaspace.com or Instagram @_nydias

A WOMAN THAT WRITES HAS POWER,

and a woman with power is feared.

-gloria anzaldúa

MUSICIANS CONJUNTO LOS PODEROSOS PANEL 3

PSJA Early College High School Director, Minerva Villescas Principal, Alejandro Elías

ANZALDÚA & PSJA ISD Anzaldúa

taught

for

six

years

in

Pharr

San

Juan

Alamo ISD. She taught pre-school at Vida Clover Elementary (1968-1969), Elementary (1970-1973).

Anzaldúa, PSJA HS Yearbook 1973

(1967-1968) Special

&

Henry

Education

(1969-1970),

and

Ford at

Elementary

John

English

at

Doedyns PSJA

HS

LITERARY LANDMARK ABOUT

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Literary Landmark Program in Texas is made possible by: United for Libraries Texas State Library and Archives Commission Texas Center for the Book Summerlee Foundation Texas Library and Archives Foundation

Literary

Landmark

application

for

submitted

Gloria by

Anzaldúa

Emmy

Pérez,

is

made UTRGV

possible

by

Center

for

Mexican American Studies (CMAS) & Norma E. Cantú, Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (SSGA) to the Literary Landmark Program.

Support for the Literary Landmark application & its maintenance, along with CMAS & the SSGA, is provided by Gloria Anzaldúa Legacy Project – (GAL) Project, UTRGV Center for Diversity and Inclusion and DREAM Resource Center, and UTRGV Library.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS UTRGV CMAS wishes to thanks the following individuals & organizations for their support & encouragement

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CMAS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Emmy Pérez

Stephanie Alvarez

Samantha López

Ashley Cantú

José "Pepe" García-Gilling

Ruby E. Garza

Paola Hernández

PLANNING COMMITTEE Marianna Alessandri

Jo-Reyes Boitel

Norma E. Cantú

Karen Dorado

María García

Christen García-Sperry

Aaron Hinojosa

Katherine Moore McAllen

Priscilla "Lina" Suarez

Shannon Pensa

Verónica Sandoval

Paul Sharpe

ART WORK Nansi Guevara

NEPANTLA POP-UP EXHIBITION Ruby E. Garza

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO María Carmona Alonso

Rene Ballesteros

John De La Garza

Miranda Garza

Francisco Guajardo

Juan Carlos Ortiz

Noemí Martínez

Alexandra Nichole Salazar

Raul Sáenz

Iván Torres

Amanda Tovar

Javier Zambrano

PSJA ISD

Tesoros Fine Cuisine

UTRGV BESO

UTRGV CBS

Museum of South Texas History

UTRGV TiO

All who helped make more possible and to our participants, students, friends, community members, and families for their time, energy & love.

¡GRACIAS!

EVENT SPONSORS Center for Mexican American Studies International Programs School of Art and Design Center for Bilingual Studies University Library Creative Writing Program Department of Writing and Language Studies Center for Latin American Arts Department of Curriculum & Instruction College of Education & P-16 Initiatives College of Liberal Arts Center for Diversity & Inclusion DREAM Resource Center Graduate College FESTIBA B3 Institute Department of Literature & Cultural Studies Department of Bilingual & Literacy Studies Department of Philosophy School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Community Engagement Mexican American Studies Program Gender and Women’s Studies Program

Mexican American Studies / History

EVENT DONORS: NORMA E. CANTÚ VERONICA GONZALES

www.utrgv.edu/cmas