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Papers by Veronica Sandoval

Research paper thumbnail of Playing Chola or The "You Can't Spell Scholar Without Chola" Paper

Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity, 2019

Playing Chola: The Discourse of Subjects and Subject-Selves, or the "You Can’t Spell Scholar with... more Playing Chola: The Discourse of Subjects and Subject-Selves, or the "You Can’t Spell Scholar without Chola" Paper._______When members of the grassroots Chola Pinup organization objected to the use of their creative material, specifically the use of “You can’t spell scholar without chola and sCHOLAr,” in reference to an academic scholar and featured comic book artist on Latina.Com; they found their concerns met with classist commentary and dismissed by Latina.com readers. Where the Pachuca of the 1940s was reprimanded for claiming the public space of the street, the Chola as predecessor of La Pachuca, in this particular situation, was chastised for transgressing the street and interjecting herself in the privileged space of online visible discourse. When commenting on a mainstream Latina publication, like Latina.Com, a chola is seen as outside the epistemic privilege sphere of barrio, and is instead entering the public arena of Latinidad discourse. This discursive space is privileged because of the visibility offered to it through the large circulation of readership in the more marketable form of monolithic ethnicity that is Latinada, vs the overtly political, raced, and classed embodiment of non-conforming ethnicity such as Chicana and Chola._______As academics who produce knowledge on cultural subjects in our communities, this paper also asks that we consider how we, as subject-selves write about subjects from within academia, specifically when the subject is connected to our own identity. What becomes the subject-selves’ responsibility to the subject when claiming and defining community practices in mainstream forums like Latina.com, which tends to validate the voice of the subject-self over the subject?

Research paper thumbnail of New Border Voices: An Anthology  (How to be La Llorona...)

NewBorder: Contemporary Voices from the Texas/Mexico Border, 2014

My Poem: “How to be La Llorona for the City of Sullivan that has no Sidewalks," (For Domino Renee... more My Poem: “How to be La Llorona for the City of Sullivan that has no Sidewalks," (For Domino Renee Perez). Published in the 2014 New Border: Contemporary Voices from the Texas/Mexico Border, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX

Edited by Brandon D. Shuler, Robert Johnson and Erika-Garza Johnson

Research paper thumbnail of Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley (3 Published Poems)

Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley, 2011

3 of my published poems in Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley, Pu... more 3 of my published poems in Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley, Published by VAO Publishing 2011. Edited by David Bowles.
"W-E, the River,"
"Mexico Who," &
"No, Trovador."

Research paper thumbnail of Houston Poetry Fest: 2010 Anthology (Be it if I Could)

Houston Poety Fest: 2010 Anthology, 2010

My Poem "Be it if I Could" Edited Version. Published in the 25th Anniversary, Houston Poetry Fest... more My Poem "Be it if I Could" Edited Version. Published in the 25th Anniversary, Houston Poetry Fest 2010 Anthology

Research paper thumbnail of El Mundo Zurdo 3: My Published Poems

El Mundo Zurdo 3: Selected Works from the 2012 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, 2013

3 of my published poems in El Mundo Zurdo 3, Aunt Lute Press, San Francisco, California. “After... more 3 of my published poems in El Mundo Zurdo 3, Aunt Lute Press, San Francisco, California.
“After Cervicide: Postcard to La Gloria, April 6, 2012,”
“Palming Limestone: Postcard to La Gloria, April 20, 2012” &
“I will be your bridge: A Literary Reflection (For Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating: The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader)

Edited by Larissa Mercado-López, Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Antonia Castañeda.

Research paper thumbnail of Volutions: 2014 Savant Poetry Anthology (5 Published Poems)

Volutions: 2014 Savant Poetry Anthology, 2014

5 of my published poems in the 2014 Savant Poetry Anthology. Savant Books and Publications, Honol... more 5 of my published poems in the 2014 Savant Poetry Anthology. Savant Books and Publications, Honolulu, HI 2014.

"She Was: The Impotent Sun Rose."
"Choir: Othello, WA"
"Once,"
"Ama: A Poetic Reflection," and
"Mexico: You are my Motherland,"

Edited by Suzanne Langford.

Research paper thumbnail of There are Cholas (Poetry and Spoken Word)

Blood Orange Review, 2018

Poetry published in the Blood Orange Review Issue 10.2 at Washington State University. Publicatio... more Poetry published in the Blood Orange Review Issue 10.2 at Washington State University. Publication includes link to a reading of There are Cholas.

Research paper thumbnail of Immigration, Surveillance, and Unaccompanied Minors in the Rio Grande Valley: Nepantla Praxis in the Works of Borderland Artist Celeste De Luna

El Mundo Zurdo 6: Selected Works from the 2016 Meeting of the Society For the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, 2018

El Munduo Zurdo 6, Edited by Sara A. Ramírez, Larissa M. Mercado-López, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull ... more El Munduo Zurdo 6, Edited by Sara A. Ramírez, Larissa M. Mercado-López, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull

Gloria Anzaldúa asserts, “Border art is an art that supersedes the pictorial. It depicts both the soul of the artist and the soul of the Pueblo. It deals with who tells the stories and what stories and histories are told” (“Border Arte” 62). Anzaldúa calls this form of visual narrative “autohistoria,” a form that goes beyond the traditional self-portrait or autobiography to tell the artist’s personal story and includes their cultural history (62). By analyzing the work of nepantleros and nepantleras currently living, working, and creating in the borderlands, I highlight Anzaldúa’s theory in praxis, where artists live in “the locus of resistance, of rupture, of implosion and explosion,” where through their work, borderland artists “[put] together fragments and [create new assemblages]” of the realties they live in (49). At the center of this essay is borderland nepantlera Celeste De Luna, whose haunting images of anchor babies, detention centers, check points, and Aztec deities speak directly to Anzaldúa’s nepantla theory as a threshold of transformation. The border as a “historical and metaphorical site” is an occupied site where border artists strive to decolonize space through their art (63), and thus, De Luna’s work is a prime example of the ways in which nepantleras decolonize narratives, stirring political consciousness. Through her recognition of the systems at play that change the trajectory of her work and her family’s life, De Luna’s work is an autohistoria that demonstrates a refusal to remain silent about a shifting social political landscape that implicates all of those living in and trapped within the borderlands.

Research paper thumbnail of La Chismosa Issue 1: A Xicana Publication for Activist Cholas

La Chismosa Issue 1, 2016

As a managing editor La Chismosa, I helped to produced this publication through the contributions... more As a managing editor La Chismosa, I helped to produced this publication through the contributions of the women of Chola Pinup. La Chismosa is a magazine meant to highlight the work of the women of OG Chola Pinup now Chola Vida. In it you learn about chola political praxis and are introduced to the cholas of CP. They are working class women, mothers, academics, teachers, artist, photographers, chefs, entrepreneurs, Phd's, sCHOLArs, activist, and so much more.

Research paper thumbnail of La Chismosa Issue 2: A Xicana Publication for Activist Cholas "Dia de Los Muertos Issue"

La Chismosa, 2017

As a managing editor La Chismosa, I helped to produced this publication through the contributions... more As a managing editor La Chismosa, I helped to produced this publication through the contributions of the women of Chola Pinup. La Chismosa is a magazine meant to highlight the work of the women of OG Chola Pinup now Chola Vida. In it you learn about chola political praxis and are introduced to the cholas of CP. They are working class women, mothers, academics, teachers, artist, photographers, chefs, entrepreneurs, Phd's, sCHOLArs, activist, and so much more.

Book Reviews by Veronica Sandoval

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Sueño: New Poems by Lorna Dee Cervantes

Sueño: New Poems

Unpublished Book Review entitled "Con mucha gracia Chicana Feminist Praxis in Lorna Dee Cervantes... more Unpublished Book Review entitled "Con mucha gracia Chicana Feminist Praxis in Lorna Dee Cervantes Sueño"

When swept up in the cyclone of a dream, you will push past "Coyote trees," past the "thrilling of crickets educating into the night," past "lost loves and beaten paths poured into rivers of rain" (86, 27, 8). These are poetic dreamscapes melted into a universe of brilliance, strands of stanzas drenched in the fragmentations of memory. Sueño, by Lorna Dee Cervantes is a masterful collection of poems that permeates, a seduction of stanzas that devour. Although Cervantes separates her collection into five sections with the subheadings of "Thirty-something of the Cruelest" and "A Bit of Grace" or "una poca de gracia," her work is not linear or traditionally grouped in simplified sections. It is cyclical and repeating, bleeding through pages, and pulling the reader from the comfortable spaces of the analytical. In this collection you will find love, pain, history, sensuousness, loss, mother, grandmother, father, past and passed loves, rivers and rivers twice, trees birthed and on spines, children, cholas, cholos, Colorado splendor, lowriders, Mayans and braiding. Cervantes is always braiding, a familiar caressing image that
Cervantes gifts her readers, following us from her collection Emplumada, a braiding which has endeared me to her work.

Research paper thumbnail of The Un/making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics Book Review

Book Review of the In/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics and Aesthetics. Edited by... more Book Review of the In/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics and Aesthetics. Edited by Ellie D. Hernández and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson (New York: Palgrave MaCMillan, 2014).

Research paper thumbnail of Unwoven: Poems by Erika Garza-Johnson Book Review

My Book Review for Erika Garza- Johnson's poetry collection entitled Unwoven.

Conference Presentations by Veronica Sandoval

Research paper thumbnail of 2024 NACCS Pacific Northwest Foco Regional Conference (Program)

PNW Foco Regional Conference , 2024

As a Co-Rep for the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Pacific Northwest Foco,... more As a Co-Rep for the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Pacific Northwest Foco, I helped to design and compile the program for our PNW Foco Conference that will be held on Saturday, November 9th, at Yakima Valley College in Yakima, Washington. The last regional conference in the Pacific Northwest was in 2017 at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA. Co-Rep L Heidenreich and the PNW Foco conference planning committee members are excited about welcoming students, community members, scholars, activists, artists, and more to this free conference.

Research paper thumbnail of 2024 La Chola Conference Program

2024 La Chola Conference Program, 2024

This is the program for the 2024 La Chola Conference. Program Design and Compilation By Dra. Vero... more This is the program for the 2024 La Chola Conference. Program Design and Compilation By Dra. Veronica Sandoval and Serina Payan Hazelwood (Members of the Homegirl Association and the 2024 La Chola Conference Planning Committee) Updated 10/2/2024 with the final conference edits.

Research paper thumbnail of 2024 La Chola Conference Flyer with Registration Link

Flyer with Registration Link for the La Chola Conference

Research paper thumbnail of 2024 La Chola Conference Schedule

La Chola Conference, 2024

This is a copy of the 2024 La Chola Conference Schedule. It features the times and names of the v... more This is a copy of the 2024 La Chola Conference Schedule. It features the times and names of the various panels and participants. It also includes the QR Code and Link for online registration and flyers for the Saturday Art Show and Sunday: Lowrider Homegirl Hangout. The official La Chola Conference 2024 Program will be available soon.

Program Compilation and layout by: Dr. Veronica Sandoval and Serina Payan Hazelwood with The Homegirl Association. All conference flyers and artwork were created by Madeline Alvizo Ramirez "Nena"

Research paper thumbnail of 2023 La Chola Conference Program

La Chola Conference 3 Program, 2023

This is the program for the 2023 La Chola Conference happening at Yakima Valley College in Yakima... more This is the program for the 2023 La Chola Conference happening at Yakima Valley College in Yakima, Washington on October 13 - October 15. Program compellation and layout by Dr. Veronica Sandoval, Portland Community College and Dr. Gabriela Raquel Rìos, University of Colorado Boulder

Research paper thumbnail of 2023 La Chola Conference Registration Flyer

La Chola Conference, 2023

Registration is now open for the 2023 La Chola Conference. This years theme is as follows_______C... more Registration is now open for the 2023 La Chola Conference. This years theme is as follows_______Cholas have long understood their identities as political praxis. The 2021 and 2022 La Chola Conference has shown us that Chola political subjectivity occurs through kinship and social networks, community and cultural practices, through political proclamation in oppressive and institutional spaces, through art, through political teachings in classrooms, through Chola community activism and community making. Much of the refinement of La Chola’s political understandings has happened through the teachings produced via the legacies of Chicano movement history, the Chicana feminist movement, and multiple critical explorations by older and contemporary scholars complicating cultural histories and understandings of self and community practices. Within these dynamic sites of Chola political praxis is also the Chola’s indigenous understandings of self._______Many older and contemporary Cholas work toward decolonizing indigenous concepts of self via acknowledging and embracing indigenous identities and practices as a form of resistance. There are Chola brujas, Chola danzantes, Chola artists, and activists that weave indigenous narratives, teachings, images, and practices into their work as Cholas. We invite you to submit panels, workshops, and individual presentations that unpack how La Chola establishes political praxis through indigenous concepts as a form of reclamation and resistance. How does La Chola work toward creating sacred spaces via homegirl community? What is Chola ceremonia? How are Chola spiritualities embracing, claiming/reclaiming Brujeria and curanderismo practices to heal communities through art, music, and more?

Research paper thumbnail of 2023 La Chola Conference CFP Flyer

The Homegirl Association, 2023

This is the 2023 La Chola Conference Call for Proposals for the 2023 La Chola Conference October ... more This is the 2023 La Chola Conference Call for Proposals for the 2023 La Chola Conference October 13-15, 2023 at Yakima Valley College, Washington State. Conference Logo and conference flyer designed by Madeline Alvizo Ramirez AKA Nena de Chola Vida.

Research paper thumbnail of Playing Chola or The "You Can't Spell Scholar Without Chola" Paper

Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity, 2019

Playing Chola: The Discourse of Subjects and Subject-Selves, or the "You Can’t Spell Scholar with... more Playing Chola: The Discourse of Subjects and Subject-Selves, or the "You Can’t Spell Scholar without Chola" Paper._______When members of the grassroots Chola Pinup organization objected to the use of their creative material, specifically the use of “You can’t spell scholar without chola and sCHOLAr,” in reference to an academic scholar and featured comic book artist on Latina.Com; they found their concerns met with classist commentary and dismissed by Latina.com readers. Where the Pachuca of the 1940s was reprimanded for claiming the public space of the street, the Chola as predecessor of La Pachuca, in this particular situation, was chastised for transgressing the street and interjecting herself in the privileged space of online visible discourse. When commenting on a mainstream Latina publication, like Latina.Com, a chola is seen as outside the epistemic privilege sphere of barrio, and is instead entering the public arena of Latinidad discourse. This discursive space is privileged because of the visibility offered to it through the large circulation of readership in the more marketable form of monolithic ethnicity that is Latinada, vs the overtly political, raced, and classed embodiment of non-conforming ethnicity such as Chicana and Chola._______As academics who produce knowledge on cultural subjects in our communities, this paper also asks that we consider how we, as subject-selves write about subjects from within academia, specifically when the subject is connected to our own identity. What becomes the subject-selves’ responsibility to the subject when claiming and defining community practices in mainstream forums like Latina.com, which tends to validate the voice of the subject-self over the subject?

Research paper thumbnail of New Border Voices: An Anthology  (How to be La Llorona...)

NewBorder: Contemporary Voices from the Texas/Mexico Border, 2014

My Poem: “How to be La Llorona for the City of Sullivan that has no Sidewalks," (For Domino Renee... more My Poem: “How to be La Llorona for the City of Sullivan that has no Sidewalks," (For Domino Renee Perez). Published in the 2014 New Border: Contemporary Voices from the Texas/Mexico Border, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX

Edited by Brandon D. Shuler, Robert Johnson and Erika-Garza Johnson

Research paper thumbnail of Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley (3 Published Poems)

Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley, 2011

3 of my published poems in Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley, Pu... more 3 of my published poems in Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley, Published by VAO Publishing 2011. Edited by David Bowles.
"W-E, the River,"
"Mexico Who," &
"No, Trovador."

Research paper thumbnail of Houston Poetry Fest: 2010 Anthology (Be it if I Could)

Houston Poety Fest: 2010 Anthology, 2010

My Poem "Be it if I Could" Edited Version. Published in the 25th Anniversary, Houston Poetry Fest... more My Poem "Be it if I Could" Edited Version. Published in the 25th Anniversary, Houston Poetry Fest 2010 Anthology

Research paper thumbnail of El Mundo Zurdo 3: My Published Poems

El Mundo Zurdo 3: Selected Works from the 2012 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, 2013

3 of my published poems in El Mundo Zurdo 3, Aunt Lute Press, San Francisco, California. “After... more 3 of my published poems in El Mundo Zurdo 3, Aunt Lute Press, San Francisco, California.
“After Cervicide: Postcard to La Gloria, April 6, 2012,”
“Palming Limestone: Postcard to La Gloria, April 20, 2012” &
“I will be your bridge: A Literary Reflection (For Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating: The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader)

Edited by Larissa Mercado-López, Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Antonia Castañeda.

Research paper thumbnail of Volutions: 2014 Savant Poetry Anthology (5 Published Poems)

Volutions: 2014 Savant Poetry Anthology, 2014

5 of my published poems in the 2014 Savant Poetry Anthology. Savant Books and Publications, Honol... more 5 of my published poems in the 2014 Savant Poetry Anthology. Savant Books and Publications, Honolulu, HI 2014.

"She Was: The Impotent Sun Rose."
"Choir: Othello, WA"
"Once,"
"Ama: A Poetic Reflection," and
"Mexico: You are my Motherland,"

Edited by Suzanne Langford.

Research paper thumbnail of There are Cholas (Poetry and Spoken Word)

Blood Orange Review, 2018

Poetry published in the Blood Orange Review Issue 10.2 at Washington State University. Publicatio... more Poetry published in the Blood Orange Review Issue 10.2 at Washington State University. Publication includes link to a reading of There are Cholas.

Research paper thumbnail of Immigration, Surveillance, and Unaccompanied Minors in the Rio Grande Valley: Nepantla Praxis in the Works of Borderland Artist Celeste De Luna

El Mundo Zurdo 6: Selected Works from the 2016 Meeting of the Society For the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, 2018

El Munduo Zurdo 6, Edited by Sara A. Ramírez, Larissa M. Mercado-López, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull ... more El Munduo Zurdo 6, Edited by Sara A. Ramírez, Larissa M. Mercado-López, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull

Gloria Anzaldúa asserts, “Border art is an art that supersedes the pictorial. It depicts both the soul of the artist and the soul of the Pueblo. It deals with who tells the stories and what stories and histories are told” (“Border Arte” 62). Anzaldúa calls this form of visual narrative “autohistoria,” a form that goes beyond the traditional self-portrait or autobiography to tell the artist’s personal story and includes their cultural history (62). By analyzing the work of nepantleros and nepantleras currently living, working, and creating in the borderlands, I highlight Anzaldúa’s theory in praxis, where artists live in “the locus of resistance, of rupture, of implosion and explosion,” where through their work, borderland artists “[put] together fragments and [create new assemblages]” of the realties they live in (49). At the center of this essay is borderland nepantlera Celeste De Luna, whose haunting images of anchor babies, detention centers, check points, and Aztec deities speak directly to Anzaldúa’s nepantla theory as a threshold of transformation. The border as a “historical and metaphorical site” is an occupied site where border artists strive to decolonize space through their art (63), and thus, De Luna’s work is a prime example of the ways in which nepantleras decolonize narratives, stirring political consciousness. Through her recognition of the systems at play that change the trajectory of her work and her family’s life, De Luna’s work is an autohistoria that demonstrates a refusal to remain silent about a shifting social political landscape that implicates all of those living in and trapped within the borderlands.

Research paper thumbnail of La Chismosa Issue 1: A Xicana Publication for Activist Cholas

La Chismosa Issue 1, 2016

As a managing editor La Chismosa, I helped to produced this publication through the contributions... more As a managing editor La Chismosa, I helped to produced this publication through the contributions of the women of Chola Pinup. La Chismosa is a magazine meant to highlight the work of the women of OG Chola Pinup now Chola Vida. In it you learn about chola political praxis and are introduced to the cholas of CP. They are working class women, mothers, academics, teachers, artist, photographers, chefs, entrepreneurs, Phd's, sCHOLArs, activist, and so much more.

Research paper thumbnail of La Chismosa Issue 2: A Xicana Publication for Activist Cholas "Dia de Los Muertos Issue"

La Chismosa, 2017

As a managing editor La Chismosa, I helped to produced this publication through the contributions... more As a managing editor La Chismosa, I helped to produced this publication through the contributions of the women of Chola Pinup. La Chismosa is a magazine meant to highlight the work of the women of OG Chola Pinup now Chola Vida. In it you learn about chola political praxis and are introduced to the cholas of CP. They are working class women, mothers, academics, teachers, artist, photographers, chefs, entrepreneurs, Phd's, sCHOLArs, activist, and so much more.

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Sueño: New Poems by Lorna Dee Cervantes

Sueño: New Poems

Unpublished Book Review entitled "Con mucha gracia Chicana Feminist Praxis in Lorna Dee Cervantes... more Unpublished Book Review entitled "Con mucha gracia Chicana Feminist Praxis in Lorna Dee Cervantes Sueño"

When swept up in the cyclone of a dream, you will push past "Coyote trees," past the "thrilling of crickets educating into the night," past "lost loves and beaten paths poured into rivers of rain" (86, 27, 8). These are poetic dreamscapes melted into a universe of brilliance, strands of stanzas drenched in the fragmentations of memory. Sueño, by Lorna Dee Cervantes is a masterful collection of poems that permeates, a seduction of stanzas that devour. Although Cervantes separates her collection into five sections with the subheadings of "Thirty-something of the Cruelest" and "A Bit of Grace" or "una poca de gracia," her work is not linear or traditionally grouped in simplified sections. It is cyclical and repeating, bleeding through pages, and pulling the reader from the comfortable spaces of the analytical. In this collection you will find love, pain, history, sensuousness, loss, mother, grandmother, father, past and passed loves, rivers and rivers twice, trees birthed and on spines, children, cholas, cholos, Colorado splendor, lowriders, Mayans and braiding. Cervantes is always braiding, a familiar caressing image that
Cervantes gifts her readers, following us from her collection Emplumada, a braiding which has endeared me to her work.

Research paper thumbnail of The Un/making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics Book Review

Book Review of the In/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics and Aesthetics. Edited by... more Book Review of the In/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics and Aesthetics. Edited by Ellie D. Hernández and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson (New York: Palgrave MaCMillan, 2014).

Research paper thumbnail of Unwoven: Poems by Erika Garza-Johnson Book Review

My Book Review for Erika Garza- Johnson's poetry collection entitled Unwoven.

Research paper thumbnail of 2024 NACCS Pacific Northwest Foco Regional Conference (Program)

PNW Foco Regional Conference , 2024

As a Co-Rep for the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Pacific Northwest Foco,... more As a Co-Rep for the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Pacific Northwest Foco, I helped to design and compile the program for our PNW Foco Conference that will be held on Saturday, November 9th, at Yakima Valley College in Yakima, Washington. The last regional conference in the Pacific Northwest was in 2017 at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA. Co-Rep L Heidenreich and the PNW Foco conference planning committee members are excited about welcoming students, community members, scholars, activists, artists, and more to this free conference.

Research paper thumbnail of 2024 La Chola Conference Program

2024 La Chola Conference Program, 2024

This is the program for the 2024 La Chola Conference. Program Design and Compilation By Dra. Vero... more This is the program for the 2024 La Chola Conference. Program Design and Compilation By Dra. Veronica Sandoval and Serina Payan Hazelwood (Members of the Homegirl Association and the 2024 La Chola Conference Planning Committee) Updated 10/2/2024 with the final conference edits.

Research paper thumbnail of 2024 La Chola Conference Flyer with Registration Link

Flyer with Registration Link for the La Chola Conference

Research paper thumbnail of 2024 La Chola Conference Schedule

La Chola Conference, 2024

This is a copy of the 2024 La Chola Conference Schedule. It features the times and names of the v... more This is a copy of the 2024 La Chola Conference Schedule. It features the times and names of the various panels and participants. It also includes the QR Code and Link for online registration and flyers for the Saturday Art Show and Sunday: Lowrider Homegirl Hangout. The official La Chola Conference 2024 Program will be available soon.

Program Compilation and layout by: Dr. Veronica Sandoval and Serina Payan Hazelwood with The Homegirl Association. All conference flyers and artwork were created by Madeline Alvizo Ramirez "Nena"

Research paper thumbnail of 2023 La Chola Conference Program

La Chola Conference 3 Program, 2023

This is the program for the 2023 La Chola Conference happening at Yakima Valley College in Yakima... more This is the program for the 2023 La Chola Conference happening at Yakima Valley College in Yakima, Washington on October 13 - October 15. Program compellation and layout by Dr. Veronica Sandoval, Portland Community College and Dr. Gabriela Raquel Rìos, University of Colorado Boulder

Research paper thumbnail of 2023 La Chola Conference Registration Flyer

La Chola Conference, 2023

Registration is now open for the 2023 La Chola Conference. This years theme is as follows_______C... more Registration is now open for the 2023 La Chola Conference. This years theme is as follows_______Cholas have long understood their identities as political praxis. The 2021 and 2022 La Chola Conference has shown us that Chola political subjectivity occurs through kinship and social networks, community and cultural practices, through political proclamation in oppressive and institutional spaces, through art, through political teachings in classrooms, through Chola community activism and community making. Much of the refinement of La Chola’s political understandings has happened through the teachings produced via the legacies of Chicano movement history, the Chicana feminist movement, and multiple critical explorations by older and contemporary scholars complicating cultural histories and understandings of self and community practices. Within these dynamic sites of Chola political praxis is also the Chola’s indigenous understandings of self._______Many older and contemporary Cholas work toward decolonizing indigenous concepts of self via acknowledging and embracing indigenous identities and practices as a form of resistance. There are Chola brujas, Chola danzantes, Chola artists, and activists that weave indigenous narratives, teachings, images, and practices into their work as Cholas. We invite you to submit panels, workshops, and individual presentations that unpack how La Chola establishes political praxis through indigenous concepts as a form of reclamation and resistance. How does La Chola work toward creating sacred spaces via homegirl community? What is Chola ceremonia? How are Chola spiritualities embracing, claiming/reclaiming Brujeria and curanderismo practices to heal communities through art, music, and more?

Research paper thumbnail of 2023 La Chola Conference CFP Flyer

The Homegirl Association, 2023

This is the 2023 La Chola Conference Call for Proposals for the 2023 La Chola Conference October ... more This is the 2023 La Chola Conference Call for Proposals for the 2023 La Chola Conference October 13-15, 2023 at Yakima Valley College, Washington State. Conference Logo and conference flyer designed by Madeline Alvizo Ramirez AKA Nena de Chola Vida.

Research paper thumbnail of 2022 La Chola Conference Program: High Visibility Hynas

La Chola Conference Program, 2022

As a member of the planning committee of the La Chola Conference... This is the conference Progra... more As a member of the planning committee of the La Chola Conference... This is the conference Program for the 2022 La Chola Conference entitled "High Visibility Hynas: La Chola in Pop Culture." The conference was held October 21 - 23, 2022 at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Program design by Dr. Gabriela Rios at the University of Colorado Boulder. Conference organized by The Homegirl Association of Chola Vida.

Research paper thumbnail of CFP Extension for the 2022 La Chola Conference

La Chola Conference Planning Committee , 2022

Proposal extension! Submissions now due August 12, 2022! Submit your proposal for the 2022 La Cho... more Proposal extension! Submissions now due August 12, 2022! Submit your proposal for the 2022 La Chola Conference to be held at the University of Boulder Colorado Friday October 21st through Sunday October 23rd...

In 2021 our first-ever La Chola Conference entitled “sCHOLAr: The Study and Work of Homegirls” featured presenters representing colleges and universities throughout the country. During the two-day virtual conference, the zoom audience averaged around 100 viewers at all times, with almost 200 viewers at the peak of the conference zoom traffic. Considering the high volume of conference attendees and the thousands of visitors to the Que Chola Exhibit, it is evident that Chicanas/os/xs are eager to share and learn about la Chola.

Yet who is La Chola, who speaks for La Chola? What kinds of narratives are being created of La Chola? Although Cholas are highly visible mujeres, what is and is not being included in the narratives that are being drawn of her for the world to see? Tell us.

We are calling for presenters on Chola Visibility, Chola Subjectivity, and Cholas in and outside of academia. Tell us about Chola subjectivity in film, literature, poetry, art, social media, podcasts, blogs, beauty brands, and social movements. How is La Chola celebrated and also appropriated, watered down, distorted, and criminalized? How is La Chola Visible? Aesthetics? Fashion? Attitude? Where is La Chola in Chicanx Cultural Production? Latinx Production? Chongas? Tell us about Chola Visibility in Social Movements, Social and Political Organizations. Tell us about Cholas in a academia through sCHOLAr proclamations. Tell us about Chola visibility through activism and more!

We are calling for presenters on Chola Visibility, Chola Subjectivity, and Cholas in and outside of academia. Tell us about Chola subjectivity in film, literature, poetry, art, social media, podcasts, blogs, beauty brands, and social movements. How is La Chola celebrated and also appropriated, watered down, distorted, and criminalized? How is La Chola Visible? Aesthetics? Fashion? Attitude? Where is La Chola in Chicanx Cultural Production? Latinx Production? Chongas? Tell us about Chola Visibility in Social Movements, Social and Political Organizations. Tell us about Cholas in a academia through sCHOLAr proclamations. Tell us about Chola visibility through activism, music, Chola-themed merchandise, and services. What is Chola parody? Chola Face? How are Cholas portrayed in contemporary and historical cultural productions? Why is Chola visibility important? Why is La Chola Pop?

This conference is meant to help unpack the many different facets of the chola through research, education, political praxis, literature, art, etc. It is also committed to building a space for Homegirl community. We invite you to submit full panels or individual submissions for workshops, papers, creative writing, round tables, and platicas.

Research paper thumbnail of La Chola Conference 2022 CFP

La Chola Conference Planning Committee, 2022

Call for Proposal for the 2022 La Chola Conference happening at the University of Colorado, Bould... more Call for Proposal for the 2022 La Chola Conference happening at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The theme for the 2022 conference is "High Visibility Hynas, La Chola in Pop Culture" Deadline for submission is July 15, 2022.

Research paper thumbnail of La Chola Conference: Conference Recording Links (2021)

Facebook Live Links, 2021

The First Annual La Chola Conference: sCHOLAr: The Study and Work of Homegirls Online Virtual Pr... more The First Annual La Chola Conference: sCHOLAr: The Study and Work of Homegirls
Online Virtual Presentation 2021

The IxChel Scholarship Foundation, Chola Vida, OG Chola Pinup

Facebook Live Links of the La Chola Conference in order of recording for both days. Thank you to Alexis Chapman of www.toobusygals.com for recordings.

Research paper thumbnail of La Chola Conference: sCHOLAr: The Study and Work of Homegirls (Program)

The Conference Program I designed for the First Annual La Chola Conference sCHOLAr: The Study and... more The Conference Program I designed for the First Annual La Chola Conference sCHOLAr: The Study and Work of Homegirls Online Virtual Presentation Brought to you by The IxChel Scholarship Foundation Chola Vida, OG Chola Pinup 2021 #LACHOLACONFERENCE #LACHOLACON2021

Research paper thumbnail of La Chola Conference: sCHOLAr: The Study and Work of Homegirls. (Schedule)

The First Annual La Chola Conference sCHOLAr: The Study and Work of Homegirls Online Virtual Pres... more The First Annual La Chola Conference
sCHOLAr: The Study and Work of Homegirls
Online Virtual Presentation
Brought to you by The IxChel Scholarship Foundation
Chola Vida, OG Chola Pinup
2021

#LACHOLACONFERENCE #LACHOLACON2021

For registration log on to: http://cholacon.ogcholavida.com/

Research paper thumbnail of La Chola Conference 2021 Flyer with Registration Link

Register for the 2021 La Chola Conference, Virtual Presentation April 23 -24, 2021.

Research paper thumbnail of Flyer for the La Chola Conference April 2020

Invite to submit to the La Chola Conference. Formal paper presentations, round table discussions,... more Invite to submit to the La Chola Conference. Formal paper presentations, round table discussions, creative writing & art panels. Full panel or individual submissions welcomed! This conference is meant to help unpack the many different facets of the chola through research, education, political praxis, literature and art centered on one or any of the combinations listed.