The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, February 7, 2025
Time: 1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., MST
Where: McClelland Park, 650 N. Park Ave., Tucson and via Zoom
Michelle Téllez, author of Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoloberal Neglect, will discuss teaching and learning about marginalized histories in border regions as part of the Turbeville Speaker Series. In this presentation, Téllez will introduce two recently launched projects on Afro-Chicanx communities and Mexicana/Chicana activists in the borderlands. She will focus on the development, methodology and initial observations of this multi-sited research. This free event will be held at McClelland Park and will also be online in Zoom webinar format: register here for Zoom.
About the book:
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas highlights the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a space of resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building where transformative politics can take place. It shows hope, struggle, and possibility in the context of gendered violences of racial capitalism on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Téllez shows that in creating the community of Maclovio Rojas, residents have challenged prescriptive notions of nation and belonging. Through women’s active participation and leadership, a women’s political subjectivity has emerged—Maclovianas.
