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Mulheres Negras que Movem Montanhas: Uma Resposta à Crise no Complexo do Alemão

September 26, 2022

Por ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO Read in English DURANTE MOMENTOS DE CRISE, é possível observar que grupos de pessoas se unem com o propósito de ajuda mútua. Desde os primeiros meses da pandemia de COVID-19 não foi diferente. No mundo todo surgiram exemplos de pessoas que mesmo com medo de contágio … [Read more...] about Mulheres Negras que Movem Montanhas: Uma Resposta à Crise no Complexo do Alemão

Tagged With: Ana Carolina Assumpção, Camila Santos, Coletivo Papo Reto, Complexo do Alemão, Lana de Souza, LLILAS students, Renata Trajano

Poesía: Disolución gramatical

August 30, 2021

POR ANA LÓPEZ H before there was land and lust and breathing turning into dust and killable people in god’s dull trust. there was us. there was only us. meaning water and blood and bone and stone and sun and change and we remain. outlasting everything. — Alexis Pauline Gumbs la gramática … [Read more...] about Poesía: Disolución gramatical

Tagged With: Ana López H., LLILAS Benson, LLILAS students, poesía

Poesía: En Calma / Ki’ nuk’u’x

August 29, 2021

POR NATHALIA HERNÁNDEZ OCHOA, translated to Maya Kaqchikel by the poet and Baldomero Cúma Chávez From the poet: At the moment COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in early April 2020, I was conducting research in Guatemala, living in San Pedro el Alto, traveling to Antigua, Santa María … [Read more...] about Poesía: En Calma / Ki’ nuk’u’x

Tagged With: Baldomero Cúma Chávez, Kaqchikel, LLILAS Benson, LLILAS students, Nathalia Hernández Ochoa, pandemia, poesía

“La mitad de mi corazón”: Una entrevista con Montserrat y Fátima Valdivia

April 8, 2020

BY SUSANNA SHARPE Read in English Olimpia Montserrat Valdivia y Fátima Valdivia son hermanas gemelas idénticas de León, Guanajuato, Mexico, que estudian el doctorado en el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos Teresa Lozano Long (LLILAS) de la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Fátima comenzó … [Read more...] about “La mitad de mi corazón”: Una entrevista con Montserrat y Fátima Valdivia

Tagged With: Environment, Fátima Valdivia, Human Rights, Indigenous Issues, LLILAS students, migrantes, Montserrat Valdivia, Student Research, Tarahumara, UT Austin

“Half of My Heart”: An Interview with Montserrat and Fátima Valdivia

April 8, 2020

BY SUSANNA SHARPE Leer en español Olimpia Montserrat Valdivia and Fátima Valdivia are identical twin sisters from León, Guanajuato, Mexico, who are enrolled in the doctoral program at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at The University of Texas at … [Read more...] about “Half of My Heart”: An Interview with Montserrat and Fátima Valdivia

Tagged With: Central American migration, Environment, Fátima Valdivia, Human Rights, Indigenous Issues, LLILAS, LLILAS students, migrants, Montserrat Valdivia, Student Research, Tarahumara, UT Austin

“We Will All Look Like This Someday”: Santa Muerte in Mexico City

August 5, 2016

  BY KATHRYN McDONALD Over the past decade, La Santa Muerte, an unofficial Mexican skeletal saint, has prompted the curiosity of journalists, law enforcement, and popular culture in the United States and Mexico. The dramatic cover of journalist Michael Deibert’s book, In the Shadow of … [Read more...] about “We Will All Look Like This Someday”: Santa Muerte in Mexico City

Tagged With: ILASSA student conference, Kathryn McDonald, LLILAS students, Saint Death, Santa Muerte, Santísima Muerte, Student Research

Masculinity and Gender in Kaqchikel Sololá, Guatemala

March 18, 2016

BY RIGOBERTO AJCALÓN CHOY “The law is giving many freedoms to women,” notes an interviewee with some dismay when I ask him about the current status of indigenous women in the rural Guatemalan town of Kaqchikel Sololá. This response exemplifies men’s reactions to the slow but steady pace at which … [Read more...] about Masculinity and Gender in Kaqchikel Sololá, Guatemala

Tagged With: Guatemala, Indigenous Issues, Kaqchikel Sololá, LLILAS students, masculinity, Rigoberto Ajcalón Choy, Student Research

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