{"id":2919,"date":"2024-09-20T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/centers\/?page_id=2919"},"modified":"2024-10-02T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T19:34:17","slug":"call-for-submissions-healing-wounds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/centers\/center-for-latino-studies\/call-for-submissions-healing-wounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions: Healing Wounds: Justice, Creativity, and Joy in the Borderlands and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the often-quoted line from her groundbreaking Borderlands\/la frontera<\/em>, Gloria Anzald\u00faa identifies the US\/Mexico borderlands as a site of pain<\/em> and creation<\/em>: “The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta<\/em> where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country \u2014 a border culture” (25). While Anzald\u00faa uses the geo-political border as a means of illustrating the unnatural divides governments impose on peoples, she also recognizes that we create many borderlands within ourselves and our own communities: psychological, sexual, and spiritual. Each of these borderlands has the potential to be una herida abierta<\/em>, marked by contradiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Borderlands writers have long understood and echoed Anzald\u00faa\u2019s claims about the border as a site of pain, wounding, and indeterminacy, while also appreciating the joy, creative fecundity, dynamism, and resilience of the border. In line with this, we invite creative, critical, critically creative, and creatively critical submissions that explore the tensions and fears that mark this current moment against our sites of joy, of justice, of community, and of creation. We are particularly interested in works that emphasize decoloniality, indigeneity, resistance, and justice-oriented claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This mural, “Paseo de Humanidad”, was created by artists Alberto Morackis, Alfred Quir\u00f3z, and Guadalupe Serrano. It is a painted metal mural attached to the Mexican side of the US border wall in the city of Heroica Nogales, Sonora. The photo is the work of Jonathan McIntosh<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some questions writers may think about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n