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Finding My Chicana Soul in the Languages of My Violin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This auto-ethnographic work consists of my journey through my violin and how my instrument helped me unpack what it means to be Chicana. Learning and playing the violin helped me find my voice as a new way of expressing myself, but it also brought me ...
Garay, Kenya
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Transness is our salve: How trans identity facilitates healing from relational trauma with parental figures

open access: yesJournal of Traumatic Stress, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 616-628, August 2026.
Abstract Transgender and nonbinary (TNB) individuals experience high rates of relational trauma from parental figures, yet their pathways to healing remain underexplored. This qualitative study used constructivist grounded theory to develop a theoretical framework of how TNB adults heal from parental relational trauma.
Joonwoo Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fraying the Edges of Literacies: What Do Post‐Philosophies Produce for Early Childhood Literacies?

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.
Paper skateboard park and worms' house; is it literacy? We invite a discussion on how post‐philosophies have, and could, open up possibilities for thinking about early literacies. By fraying the edges of certainty and legitimacy around what counts as literacy and who is viewed as literate (according to humanist logics), post‐philosophical concepts ...
Abigail Hackett, Candace R. Kuby
wiley   +1 more source

Loving, Luchando, and Literacy: Bilingual Latinx Mothers and the Power of Testimonios in a Community Book Club

open access: yesThe Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 1, July/August 2026.
This study centers bilingual Latinx mothers who engaged in cuentos and testimonios alongside their children during a community book club. Their stories, rooted in love, language, and resistance, challenge deficit narratives and redefine literacy as relational, multimodal, and culturally grounded—positioning mothers as powerful pedagogues and cultural ...
Celina‐Maria Espinosa de Rosales   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performative auto-ethnographic cuadro: a Mexicana/Chicana testimonio addressing tradition and authenticity in folklórico dance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This auto-ethnographic thesis explores the journey of a Chicana in a Mexican folklórico dance troupe and discusses how Mexican folkloric archetypes are identified and performed in an original Chicano influenced dance cuadro (suite).
Padilla, Cindy
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Chicana/o/x Musical Journeys: Beyond Racialization with Re-spiriting Music and Songs in the Third Space of Harmonic Consciousness

open access: yes, 2023
This thesis includes oral histories with Chicana/o/x music makers from the late 1950s to 2023 that have long faced a racialized music industry never built with their success in mind.
Esparza, Gregory Edward
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Chicana Feminism as a Bridge: The Struggle of a White Woman Seeking an Alternative to the Eclipsing Embodiment of Whiteness

open access: yesJournal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2018
Chicana feminism helps researchers examine social issues from positionings which challenge Whitestream ways of knowing, particularly in terms of intersectionality of identities and lived experiences.
G. Sue Kasun
doaj   +1 more source

“I'm Not Here to Teach You How to Be Gay:” LGBTQ+ Client Experiences of Othering in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

open access: yesJournal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite the increasing emphasis on addressing the intersections of client and therapist identity to improve therapeutic outcomes, therapy clients holding marginalized identities continue to experience othering. Othering is a process that engenders marginalization and inequality based on preconceived group identity, involves the hegemonic ...
Caitlin Edwards   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making menudo, feeding the soul: towards a fat Chicana epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
People today have inherited historically rigid guidelines of what constitutes beauty and bodily acceptance, with multiple institutions normalizing a particular body type while simultaneously making the "other" out of those bodies that do not adhere to ...
Hernandez, Monica E
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Researching Empowerment in Chicana/o Histories

open access: yes, 2002
No abstract available.Commentator: "Researching Empowerment in Chicana/o Histories," National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies, March 27-30, 2002, Chicago ...
José M. Alamillo
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