Table Of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword by Rachel Afi Quinn
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Melissa Alvarez-Maldonado & Amarilys Estrella
Part 1: Who is a Latina?
1. A Letter to Black Womxn of Abya Yala and Turtle Island by Meryleen Mena
2. The Formula for Visible Latin(a)dad: Latina Pop Icons and their U.S.-based Personas by Nikole Meyers
3. Cultivating a Pleasure Practice by Raquel Corona
4. Beauty in Isolation by Monserrat Pavia-Bravo
5. La Cosas Pequeñas: A Study of How the Little Things Add Up by Brianna Ortiz
6. A Poetics of Relajo: Josefina Baez (Cyber) Stages Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork by Margarita M. Castromán Soto
7. Ser Latina & Do you Touch Yourself? by Alba Quintero-Retis
Part 2: Mothering
8. Grandmother by Saira Coye-Huhn
9. Gendered Intergenerational Trauma: Reflections and Explorations on Embodied Mami Issues by Melissa Alvarez-Maldonado
10. My Mother, Myth, and Monster by Alba Quintero-Retis
11. Magaly Pineda, Dominican Feminist Leader by Amaury Rodriguez
12. Not my Mother’s Eyes by Juliana Nociari
13. Verde by Sofia Lara Carbone
14. Abuela Elsa: La Matriarca by Sydney Fontalvo
15. Dolores by Andres Leon
Part 3: Entornos and the Body
16. You’ll Still be Fine and Rerooting by Alba Quinteiros-Retis (Poem)
17. Interrogating Intimacies: Challenging Gender-Based Violence within an Anti-Racist
Movement Against Statelessness by Amarilys Estrella
18. Children’s Laughter / Risas de Niños by Dayana Alejandro Campoverde
19. Crafting Social Justice: Seeking Protection and Redistributing Unequal Power through Brujería by Vanessa Aguilar
20. The Narrative of the Body: Reframing Identity and Violence in Selena: The Series and Mariposa de Barrio by Kaltra Marku
21. Conquering the Freshman 15 by Angelica Burac
22. Wielders of Ancestral Magic: Imaginative Representations of Queerness in Fantasy Latinx YA Graphic Novels by Jose Guillermo
About the Authors