TY - CHAP
T1 - Testimoniando: Chicana/Latina Feminist Reflections on Embodied Knowledge, Literacies, and Narrating the Self
AU - Ybarra, Mónica González
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - A Chicana mentor of mine once asked readers to finish the following sentence: “If my hands could speak, they would tell you.…”¹ At the time I responded, I wrote about my hands being descendants of hardworking, manual-laboring, mothering, and resistant hands—all of which is true. As I write this chapter now, a junior scholar navigating the often-toxic confines of academia, I recognize that if my hands could speak, they would also tell you how they are the median between my heart’s work and the way I do literacy research in education. They would tell you how, when I write,
AB - A Chicana mentor of mine once asked readers to finish the following sentence: “If my hands could speak, they would tell you.…”¹ At the time I responded, I wrote about my hands being descendants of hardworking, manual-laboring, mothering, and resistant hands—all of which is true. As I write this chapter now, a junior scholar navigating the often-toxic confines of academia, I recognize that if my hands could speak, they would also tell you how they are the median between my heart’s work and the way I do literacy research in education. They would tell you how, when I write,
U2 - 10.2307/j.ctv1c7zg20
DO - 10.2307/j.ctv1c7zg20
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780815637448
SN - 9780815637301
T3 - Writing, Culture, and Community Practices
SP - 250
EP - 267
BT - Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education across Communities
A2 - Gonzales, Laura
A2 - Kells, Michelle Hall
PB - Syracuse University Press
ER -