Testimoniando: Chicana/Latina Feminist Reflections on Embodied Knowledge, Literacies, and Narrating the Self

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Abstract

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,
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLatina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education across Communities
EditorsLaura Gonzales, Michelle Hall Kells
PublisherSyracuse University Press
Pages250-267
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9780815655312
ISBN (Print)9780815637448, 9780815637301
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2022

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NameWriting, Culture, and Community Practices

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