Sex y Corazón @ UCLA Blog: PHOTO: Chela Sandoval, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Jeanette Rodriguez

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About Sex y Corazón @ UCLA

On Friday, February 12, 2010, the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, in celebration of the department's quinceañera/15th anniversary, hosted a one-day symposium that looked back over the last fifteen years of Chicana/o Studies and examined how Chicana/o queer and feminist scholars have changed the field. The event was organized by then Chair of the department, Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba, with the help of two graduate students, Georgina Guzmán and Allison Wyper.

This historical symposium gathered over twenty-five Chicana and Chicano scholars and practitioners whose work intersects race, class, gender and sexuality paradigms within both traditional and interdisciplinary fields. Speakers also spoke to how their scholarship and activism utilizes what Chela Sandoval calls "the hermeneutics of love," or rather, the methodology of love as a political strategy for social change.

Two-hundred people attended the full day event--students, professors, staff, and community members from all over southern California and beyond.

To read more about the program and the participants, go to the Sex y Corazón website.

Sex y Corazón @ UCLA Blog

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

PHOTO: Chela Sandoval, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Jeanette Rodriguez

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