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Muele Las Palabras Con Canela: How Queer Xicanx Writing Practices Reclaim Indigeneity, Karen Zurita Jan 2023

Muele Las Palabras Con Canela: How Queer Xicanx Writing Practices Reclaim Indigeneity, Karen Zurita

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

My thesis project is a multi-genre story in itself, dedicated to my community. By using Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel’s Decolonize Your Diet, I emphasize the importance of Xicanx writing needing to reflect their Indigenous identity by intertwining the spiritual and physical in their writing practices. In the process of creating this thesis project I was able to heal my own writing and have it shapeshift into creating a summer poetry class for high school students in the Humboldt County Area. In all, I found these writing practices to be crucial …


De La Esclavitud A La Libertad: La Historia De Una Esclava Afromexicana, Margaree G. Jackson May 2021

De La Esclavitud A La Libertad: La Historia De Una Esclava Afromexicana, Margaree G. Jackson

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

Resumen: “De la esclavitud a la libertad: La historia de una esclava afromexicana,” es una colección de poemas descolonizados contados desde la perspectiva de una mujer afromexicana ficticia del siglo XVII. La protagonista, Maricela Rivas, es una esclava que nació en la plantación azucarera Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, una plantación verdadera ubicada en Veracruz, México. Su historia se basa en las pocas historias que existen sobre la vida de la mujer afromexicana que formaba parte esencial de la sociedad y cultura mexicana pero que le falta representación y una voz. Estos poemas le dan una voz y perspectiva al …


To The Studio, In The Studio, Home, Miquel R. Veldkamp May 2021

To The Studio, In The Studio, Home, Miquel R. Veldkamp

Theses and Dissertations

A curated series of poems and mini essays that reflect on personal life, politics, art history, folklore, science, identity and race. It addresses the questions that inform my work, and echoes its ethos of play, exploration, curiosity, vulnerability.


White On The Outside | Brown On The Inside, Damon R. Carbajal May 2021

White On The Outside | Brown On The Inside, Damon R. Carbajal

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

This poem is one of a trio of poems published in this volume titled, “at the interSEXtion of being GAY and CHICANX: Un Trío de Poemas,” that dive into what it means growing up as a gay, Chicanx light-skinned in the current times post the moviemento and through the strides of the queer liberation movement. The poems explore many facets of living at this intersection including, but not limited to, toxic masculinities, queerphobia, mental health, sexual assault, pride, etc. The poems also explore the notion of what it means to be mestiza as Mexicano and White and how this further …


The Need For Spanish In Mainstream Classrooms: A Celebratory Reclamation Of Linguistic Identity, Keila Torres May 2021

The Need For Spanish In Mainstream Classrooms: A Celebratory Reclamation Of Linguistic Identity, Keila Torres

Art of Teaching Thesis - Written

This paper is a testament to the sociocultural importance of bilingualism in mainstream U.S. classrooms, specifically pertaining to the Spanish language and communities in which there is a large percentage of Spanish speakers. Approximately 13% of Americans are native Spanish speakers, this is equivalent to 40 million people. States like Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Texas can boast populations that include over 1 million Hispanic people (United States Census Bureau, 2019). However, our school curriculums do not reflect the large percentage of Spanish-speaking students who roam their hallways. I argue that traditional …


Properly Unhinged: A Collection Of Poems, Madison Everett Apr 2021

Properly Unhinged: A Collection Of Poems, Madison Everett

Honors Projects

This is a collection of poems that explores the identities I possess and am a part of. These identities include being half black and half white, clinically diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Generalize Anxiety Disorder, pansexual or bisexual or something altogether different (depending on the day), and cis gendered womanhood. I also explore what a poem is and what a poem is not, and how there is very little difference between the two. In a lot of ways, this is an exploration into myself and what it means to be within the world. What does it mean to …


Square American Apple Pie, Karen Zheng Jul 2020

Square American Apple Pie, Karen Zheng

I2

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Some Thoughts Jun 2020

Some Thoughts

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Her Nose Is Different From Her Nose, Mariama L. Dodd Jun 2020

Her Nose Is Different From Her Nose, Mariama L. Dodd

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Time Machine Research And Approach, Tarek Bouraque May 2020

Time Machine Research And Approach, Tarek Bouraque

Theses and Dissertations

Time Machine is a hybrid documentary that explores the logics of enslavement, colonialism, eurocentrism and their interconnectedness in our globalized world. Mustapha Azemmouri, born in 1502, undertakes a journey to the 21st century to recount his own story of enslavement and exploration, and reflects on a collective puzzle of 500 years of hidden history.


Armani Scott Apr 2020

Armani Scott

Barrio Writers

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Chattel House Series, Rena King Dec 2019

Chattel House Series, Rena King

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Roots, Reva Dixit Dec 2019

Roots, Reva Dixit

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Eve, Mariama L. Dodd Dec 2019

Eve, Mariama L. Dodd

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Venus Rising, Mariama L. Dodd Dec 2019

Venus Rising, Mariama L. Dodd

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Firm Roots, Noah J. Campbell Dec 2019

Firm Roots, Noah J. Campbell

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Shiwonhada, Betty Kim Dec 2019

Shiwonhada, Betty Kim

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Radicals Have Conquered The American University, Jasmine Collins Dec 2019

Radicals Have Conquered The American University, Jasmine Collins

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Honey, Honey, Cia N. Gladden Dec 2019

Honey, Honey, Cia N. Gladden

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Red And Blue, Cia N. Gladden Dec 2019

Red And Blue, Cia N. Gladden

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Untitled Poem, Mary L. Alvarez Dec 2019

Untitled Poem, Mary L. Alvarez

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We Cool, Samuel M. Migwi Dec 2019

We Cool, Samuel M. Migwi

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All Smiles, Zoe F. Chen Dec 2019

All Smiles, Zoe F. Chen

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Roots, Zoe F. Chen Dec 2019

Roots, Zoe F. Chen

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Papercut, Zoe F. Chen Dec 2019

Papercut, Zoe F. Chen

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Chinatown, Zoe F. Chen Dec 2019

Chinatown, Zoe F. Chen

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Tangerine, Karen Zheng Dec 2019

Tangerine, Karen Zheng

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Lost, Saeeda Ullah May 2019

Lost, Saeeda Ullah

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Home Of The Flesh, Reva Dixit May 2019

Home Of The Flesh, Reva Dixit

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Giiwe, Skyler Kuczaboski May 2019

Giiwe, Skyler Kuczaboski

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