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On Epidemics and Quarantines: Lessons from Latinx History
WEBMy first book, Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942, explored how interconnected Mexican, Black and Anglo communities negotiated sixty years of a nearly unbroken series of federal quarantines and emergency measures. Women, in particular, demanded a fuller accounting of their …
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Language Justice, Indigenous Resistance, and NYC …
WEBThe oral translation of the NYC Workers Bill of Rights into K’iche , Mixteco , Kichwa , Garifuna, and Nahuatl represents a huge step for the recognition of Latin American indigenous populations in New York City. However, these five languages are among the many indigenous languages spoken in New York City by communities from South, …
Somos Poderosas: The Movement for Reproductive Justice
WEBWe can follow the strategies of the movement for reproductive justice and begin by asserting: we all value a great deal in this place! The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism By Patricia Zavella 320 pp. New York University Press. $32.00.
¡PRESENTE! The National Coalition for Latinxs with …
WEBAccording to a 2016 national telephone survey conducted by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 61 million adults identified as having some type of disability, which means that 1 out of 4 people have a disability in the U.S.When we look at the 2010 census, 1 out of 6 people are Latina/o. Looking at the BRFSS data from 2016 …
BLOOM Welcomes Viewers Into the Vaginal Imaginary
WEBA particular corner of the gallery is reserved for the Vagnasium installation, which consists of another video on a monitor, but this one on an angle from above onto a three-person slightly-slanted couch that is intended for one spectator at a time as the wall text instructs to “lay down” to participate in a series of breathing and Kegel-like exercises …
Visualizing Chicanx Presence in the Rural Midwest
WEBThe majority of the state’s Black and Latinx populations, however, reside in cities within the inferred “south” of the state. As the state was established during the 1800s, its infrastructure repeats the Civil War era’s north/south binary. Mid-Michigan is comprised of the “Tri-Cities” of Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland.
Mujeres Subversivas: Bolivian and Diasporic Feminist Art …
WEBIn one dimension of the piece, the three artists created a mobile cart selling infusions of herbs with healing properties used for women’s health and wellness, from treatments for urinary tract infections to plant-induced abortions (abortion is criminalized and heavily stigmatized in Bolivia, although Indigenous women continue to harbor this …
Demystifying Disability: Creatives and the …
WEBA conversation with disabled creatives that challenges internalized ableism in the Latinx community and society at large. Our panelists will question generalized ideas about bodies, productivity and creativity, moving away from the medical public health conversation around disability. Through art, l
Building Community Through Art & Activism: An Interview with …
WEBArlene Dávila is Professor of Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She studies the political economy of culture and media, consumption, immigration and the geographies of inequality and race. These research interests grew out of her early work in Latinx art and culturally specific museums and …
A Charla With Rita Indiana — The Latinx Project at NYU
WEBA virtual charla, or chat, between writer and musician Rita Indiana and Carlos Chirinos, Director of the NYU Steinhardt School’s Music and Social Change Lab and Clinical Music and Global Public Health Associate Professor with the NYU School of Global Public Health.The discussion centers on the multi-disciplinary artist’s career trajectory …
Critical Latina Feminist Perspectives on Reproductive Health Post …
WEBCritical Latina Feminist Perspectives on Reproductive Health Post-Roe. Jan 31. Written By Latinx Project. We reached out to three feminist pioneers in the fields of philosophy and anthropology who have researched the intersections between reproductive justice and race for generations to reflect on the recent Dobbs decision.
Madres de la Tierra: Women Leading Environmental Justice …
WEBCollectively, these women are shaping Puerto Rico into a healthy and safe space for all. The archipelago’s women-led environmental, climate, and ecological justice movements account for historically marginalized groups, such as “Nature,” women, Black Puerto Ricans and Afro-descendants, Black migrants, rural peoples, and LGBTQ+ …
Cities Collaborative at NYU, Pre-Existing Conditions: 2020 in
WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic revealed the dangers of precarious public-facing employment. Hosted by Cities Collaborative at NYU and co-sponsored by The Latinx Project, join this roundtable where three major scholars consider place “essential work”–in the service sector, food preparation, and health care–in broad historical perspective, …
Silencio=Muerte: An Interview with Julian de Mayo on the Legacy …
WEBNéstor David Pastor: In 2019, you organized an exhibition at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center called “(ES)tatus: the Latina/o Caucus of ACT-UP New York,” which presented immigration status and HIV status as intersecting themes.How would explain this framing? Julián de Mayo: I think of stigma, which is something that unites …
“We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize …
WEBSilvia Rodriguez Vega is currently a New York University Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She holds a Ph.D. in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Silvia is a community …
COVID-19 Vaccine: Remedy for Mistrust
WEBWe’ve learned that the disease has disproportionately affected the Latinx community. A CDC weekly report states that, “Hispanic and Latino people were 3.1 times more likely than non-Hispanic white people to be hospitalized and 2.3 times more likely to die from COVID-19 infection.”. The overall picture of COVID v.
'La Treintena' 2022: 30+ Books of Latinx Poetry
WEBCount. By Valerie Martínez. University of Arizona Press. Here, Martínez—former poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and author of the Arizona Book Award-winning Each and Her (2010), among other books—writes us beyond an ecopoetics of nature “out there” and toward a poetics that counts the seconds and the losses in a …
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