TY - JOUR
T1 - Reaching for El Mundo Zurdo
T2 - Imagining-creating-living Latinx decolonial feminist geographies in Toronto
AU - Cahuas, Madelaine C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper explores how a multiracial network of women and non-binary Latinx Community Workers (LCWs) envision and enact social change in Toronto, Canada. I demonstrate how LCWs articulate and implement an intersectional feminist and decolonial politic in their community organizing practices, from remaking a non-profit organization and creating spaces of mutual support, hope, healing and love. I argue that these social-spatial struggles collectively form Latinx decolonial feminist geographies that reach for Gloria Anzaldúa’s El Mundo Zurdo. I situate El Mundo Zurdo as a Latinx decolonial feminist and geographical theory of social change and bring it into conversation with feminist, Black and Indigenous geographies. Overall, this paper deepens understandings of Latinx geographies in theory and practice and demonstrates how Latinx geographies can work toward decolonial feminist futures.
AB - This paper explores how a multiracial network of women and non-binary Latinx Community Workers (LCWs) envision and enact social change in Toronto, Canada. I demonstrate how LCWs articulate and implement an intersectional feminist and decolonial politic in their community organizing practices, from remaking a non-profit organization and creating spaces of mutual support, hope, healing and love. I argue that these social-spatial struggles collectively form Latinx decolonial feminist geographies that reach for Gloria Anzaldúa’s El Mundo Zurdo. I situate El Mundo Zurdo as a Latinx decolonial feminist and geographical theory of social change and bring it into conversation with feminist, Black and Indigenous geographies. Overall, this paper deepens understandings of Latinx geographies in theory and practice and demonstrates how Latinx geographies can work toward decolonial feminist futures.
KW - Community organizing
KW - Latinx feminisms
KW - Latinx geographies
KW - decolonial futures
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U2 - 10.1080/0966369X.2020.1786015
DO - 10.1080/0966369X.2020.1786015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087632232
SN - 0966-369X
VL - 28
SP - 605
EP - 625
JO - Gender, Place and Culture
JF - Gender, Place and Culture
IS - 9
ER -