If you love Halloween and Selena, you’re about to have the best October ever. At a still unspecified date in October, the M•A•C + Selena beauty line will drop. A Limited Edition Purple Vinyl of Ones will drop on October 14. Exactly a week later, the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame will honor Selena. And that’s all before Halloween even happens.
On Thursday, the Governor’s Commission for Women announced it will induct Selena and four other women for their contributions to the state of Texas. The Women’s Hall of Fame accepts nominations twice a year for women with ties to the Lone Star State. Not that we need another reason to celebrate Selena . . . READ MORE
[Photocourtesy of Remezcla]Rolando Romero & Amanda Nolacea Harris
Feminism, Nation and Myth explores the scholarship of La Malinche, the indigenous woman who is said to have led Cortés and his troops to the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán. The figure of La Malinche has generated intense debate among literature and cultural studies scholars. Drawing from the humanities and the social sciences, feminist studies, queer studies, Chicana/o studies, and Latina/o studies, critics and theorists in this volume analyze the interaction and interdependence of race, class, and gender. Studies of La Malinche demand that scholars disassemble and reconstruct concepts of nation, community, agency, subjectivity, and social activism.
Contributors include Alfred Arteaga, Antonia Castañeda, Debra Castillo, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Deena González, María Herrera Sobek, Guisela Latorre, Luis Leal, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Amanda Nolacea Harris, Rolando J. Romero, and Tere Romo. These academic essays are complemented by the creative work of Alicia Gaspar de Alba and José Emilio Pacheco, both of whom evoke the figure of La Malinche in their work.
By Yara Simón, Remezcla (3 minute read)
