Plática at The Cheech:

“Brown Body as a Site for Disruption”

Michelle Téllez and Mike Chávez engage in conversation on topics related to the Xican-a.o.x. Body exhibition. Dr. Chávez wrote the essay “Los de Abajo: Lowriders, Bodies, and Rasquachismo” that is included in the exhibition catalog. He is the co-executive director and founder of the Inland Empire Labor Institute and a professor of sociology at Riverside City College. Dr. Téllez is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in Community Studies, Sociology, Chicana/o Studies and Education who writes about identity, mothering, transnational community formation, cross-border labor organizing, gendered migration, autonomy and resistance along the U.S./Mexico border.

Wednesday, Oct. 18th, 2023
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Cheech Auditorium
3581 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA

Free and open to the public. Registration reccomeneded.  Details here.

Presented by EXO Roast Co. and the University of Arizona Press, join us to celebrate Michelle Téllez’s new book, Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect.

When: Wednesday, October 6, 5:30 p.m., at EXO Roast Co., 403 N. 6th Avenue

Free event, no registration required. Books will be available for sale. EXO Roast Co. currently requires all customers and staff wear masks. The number of people in the café may be limited due to social distancing guidelines.

Purchase book here.

Join the Indiana University South Bend Women’s and Gender Studies Program as they present the 2021 Gloria Kaufman Memorial Lecture with special guest Michelle Téllez presenting, “Beyond the Wall: Fronteriza Imaginaries in the Everyday.”

Thinking beyond geopolitical demarcations at the US/Mexico border, this talk asks how can we imagine the borderlands as a space of feminist resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building. Rooted in experiential knowledge and many years of community rooted research in the region, Téllez will share the often-overlooked and misunderstood stories of mujeres fronterizas (border women).

Michelle Téllez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona.

Registration for this important and informative lecture is required via Zoom at http://go.iu.edu/Kaufman2021.

This free lecture is made possible by the IU South Bend Women’s and Gender Studies Program and co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the School of Social Work; the Vera Z. Dwyer College of Health Sciences; the Departments of English, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology, Political Science and Criminal Justice; the Programs in Sustainability, General Studies, Master of Liberal Studies; and the Civil Rights Heritage Center.