Shout Outs!
Many happy returns of the day! I'm so happy to say that the Memoir and Latinidad panel forged ahead at AWP--sans Gustavo, Stephanie, and me, but ahead nonetheless, and all reports say it was fantastic! Chisme travels fast, and I heard that Luis Rodriguez, Rigoberto González, and AWP vice president Francisco Aragón--who was kind enough to step in and read my intro (mil gracias, Francisco!), and who blogs here--did a knockout job. ¡Órale!
Thanks to all the great folks who showed up, including Lorraine López, John Phillip Santos, and Magda Montiel Davis, who took these beautiful photos of the panelists:
One kind thing Luis did was to pass out photocopies of the little 3-page bibliography of resources that Stephanie and I--and my great grad assistant Sindu--worked on so hard in advance: lists of memoirs by Latinas y Latinos, lightly fictionalized memoirs, edited collections of short memoir pieces (Muy Macho: Latino Men Confront Their Manhood; Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios; Growing Up Chicana/o, etc.), criticism, and great online resources, too. I hope it will be a help to anyone who wants to teach, research, or just read for pleasure some Latin@ memoirs.
If anybody out there wants a copy, shoot me an email and I'll send it to you.
Lastly, and on a totally different topic, a giant shout-out to Dr. Sara Puotinen and her students at the University of Minnesota, who just finished reading and discussing my essay "On Becoming Educated" in their Contemporary Feminist Debates class. Too cool! Thank you for reading! I hope you had a great discussion.
Here's something wild. In that essay, I talk about how I tried (and failed) to get a piece by bell hooks included in the seminar on feminist theory that I took in graduate school. I wanted so badly to read and discuss something that felt like home, that felt real and urgent and needful.
Now my writing is being taught in a women's studies class? I cannot tell you how truly weird and cool and disorienting that feels.
Gratitude. Wonder. Wow.
Thanks to all the great folks who showed up, including Lorraine López, John Phillip Santos, and Magda Montiel Davis, who took these beautiful photos of the panelists:
Luis J. Rodriguez
Francisco Aragón, left, and Rigoberto González
One kind thing Luis did was to pass out photocopies of the little 3-page bibliography of resources that Stephanie and I--and my great grad assistant Sindu--worked on so hard in advance: lists of memoirs by Latinas y Latinos, lightly fictionalized memoirs, edited collections of short memoir pieces (Muy Macho: Latino Men Confront Their Manhood; Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios; Growing Up Chicana/o, etc.), criticism, and great online resources, too. I hope it will be a help to anyone who wants to teach, research, or just read for pleasure some Latin@ memoirs.
If anybody out there wants a copy, shoot me an email and I'll send it to you.
Lastly, and on a totally different topic, a giant shout-out to Dr. Sara Puotinen and her students at the University of Minnesota, who just finished reading and discussing my essay "On Becoming Educated" in their Contemporary Feminist Debates class. Too cool! Thank you for reading! I hope you had a great discussion.
Here's something wild. In that essay, I talk about how I tried (and failed) to get a piece by bell hooks included in the seminar on feminist theory that I took in graduate school. I wanted so badly to read and discuss something that felt like home, that felt real and urgent and needful.
Now my writing is being taught in a women's studies class? I cannot tell you how truly weird and cool and disorienting that feels.
Gratitude. Wonder. Wow.
fayepoet said:
A Huge congratulations to you-- for your persistence, devotion and excellent scholarship. Well deserved! And thanks for sharing the good news about AWP & how your colleagues stepped up..Wow, yes indeed!
February 9, 2011 10:21 PM