The new book Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of
Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives, edited by Kathy Sosa,
Ellen Riojas Clark and Jennifer Speed, with a Foreword by Dolores Huerta, and
an Afterword by Norma Elia Cantú, is a compilation of “moving portraits of
eighteen women from Texas and Mexico who revolutionized their worlds.”
Part 1 (12:30 to 1:15pm) focuses on the book. Panelists include the
following contributors:
- Jennifer Speed, Ph.D., Research Development
Strategist, Office of the Dean for Research, Princeton University
- Kathy Sosa, artist, educator, and documentary
producer
- Elaine Ayala, Metro columnist for the San
Antonio Express-News
- Cristina Devereaux Ramírez, Ph.D., Program
Director for the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE)
graduate program in the Department of English, University of Arizona
Part 2 (1:15 to 2:00pm) Emerging Research on Revolutionary Women
- 30 minutes on "Revolutionary Women"
from the research of StMU grad students
- Gwyn Hartung on Emma Tenayuca (mapping project
based on brand-new findings heretofore untold-ex. She attended StMU for one
year!, she was a basketball and volleyball star, etc.)
- Edgar Velazquez on Transgressive Women in
borderlands literature
- Cristal Mendez on Latina teens in 1980-90s Los
Angeles who organized pop culture alternatives to public education wasteland
- 15 minutes shout-out to other local "Revolutionary Women"
research
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