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Ilha do Desterro, 2008 After explaining that “Home Girls” is a term commonly used in the United States to refer to “women of color,” Alvina Quintana introduces herself as “a Chicana who thrives on the writing produced by [her] Chicana ‘Home Girls’”.
Leila Assumpção Harris
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Homegirls, Hoodrats and Hos: Co-constructing Gang Status through Discourse and Performance
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016 Despite a growing literature regarding female gang membership, little is known about the ways in which gang-affiliated women negotiate the boundaries of gang membership.
Abigail Kolb, Ted Palys
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"Be Open to All Those Ways That People Can Live Their Lives:" LGBTQ+ Client Recommendations for Adapting Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. [PDF]
J Marital Fam TherABSTRACT Emotionally focused couple therapy (EFCT) is an empirically supported treatment for relationship distress. Yet, despite EFCT's substantial evidence base, to date, there have been no studies that have integrated LGBTQ+ clients' experiences and therapeutic needs into the EFCT process.
Edwards C, Wittenborn AK, Allan R.
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Where Do Social Inequalities Come From?: Class Divides in Chicana/o-Latina/o Literature
Radical Teacher, 2015 There’s no denying that the Occupy movement, aside from everything else it has accomplished since 2011, created ample opportunities in college classrooms for teaching about the super wealthy, or the 1%, and their role in reproducing social and economic ...
Marcial González
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Altre Modernità, 2016 The representation of women in crime fiction has traditionally been a complicated one. Consistently forced into secondary characters (assistants, girlfriends, or damsels in distress) the most active role a female character could aspire to was that of the
Carmen Méndez García
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Gender Studies, 2021 The paper explores the short story “Harvest” (2010) by African American writer Danielle Evans and traces the figurations of the racialized aspects of gender in “Harvest” within the theoretical frameworks of Black and Chicana feminisms, motherhood studies,
Lénárt-Muszka Zsuzsanna
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Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.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
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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Living/leaving la vida loca: on barrios, Chicano youth and gangs.
Odisea, 2017 : Most US barrios are characterized by abundant academic failure, insufficient educational resources and high unemployment rates. In this context, the street becomes a place in which lower class Chicano kids find a space they belong to and a communal tie
Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo
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A Poetic Analysis of Youth's Critical Literacies as a Way of Being in and Beyond School
Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 69, Issue 4, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores the critical literacies of Black and Latinx high school students who participated in a youth participatory action research project focused on racial injustice in education. The author utilizes poetic analysis of data collected in research about youth's work to viscerally render youth's everyday ways of employing critical ...
Aimee Hendrix‐Soto
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