Chicanx Sin Fronteras: Academic, Artistic and Activist Allyship Across Borders

On behalf of the Department of Chicano Latino Studies you and your students are invited to a talk by Alfonso Vazquez Perez of Chicanx Sin Fronteras (Chicanx without Borders) from Mexico City, Mexico titled “Chicanx Sin Fronteras:  Academic, Artistic and Activist Allyship Across Borders” on Tuesday, March 21st, 2024, from, 8 to 9 AM at the Anatol Center. 

Title of the event:

Chicanx Sin Fronteras: Academic, Artistic and Activist Allyship Across Borders with Alfonso Vazquez.

Short Summary of the Event:

Guest speaker, PhD candidate Alfonso Vazquez of Mexico to discuss Chicanx and Mexicanx academic, artistic and activist work via Chicanxs sin Fronteras and the Chicana Cultural Conference in Mexico City. Joining in conversation about bicultural and bilingual work across borders is Dr. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs of Seattle University. 

Information on the Event:

Alfonso Vasquez Perez of Mexico City will share on the Cal State Long Beach campus about his binational, bicultural art and academic organization Chicanx Sin Fronteras (Chicanx without Borders). He will discuss his organization, their events, publishing projects and their annual conference and gathering in Mexico City around Chicanx culture. Joining in conversation about bicultural and bilingual work across borders is Dr. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs of Seattle University. All are invited to the Anatol Center at CSULB to learn more about this binational focus on Mexican Americans and Chicana/o/xs culture and place making.

Biography on speakers:

Alfonso Vázquez, a PhD student at UNAM, is the founder of the Chicanxs sin Fronteras and general director of the Encuentro de Cultura Chicana (Chicana Cultural Conference) in Mexico City. For more than 15 years he has been dedicated to activities of accompaniment, advice, management and development of cultural and educational projects in different institutions and cultural spaces in Mexico and has published two books including his own writings and that of writers from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border. 

Dr. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs was a child farmworker and is the daughter of migrant farmworkers from Durango, MX. She is currently a Full Professor in Modern Languages and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Theiline Pigott McCone Endowed Chair in the Humanities (2018-2020) at Seattle University. She has served as former Director for The Center for The Study of Justice in Society, Seattle University. She is a polylingual poet, critic, and cultural worker. She is the author/editor of eight books of poetry, criticism and culture, and multiple articles, encyclopedia entries, opinion pieces. She received her MA and PhD from Stanford University. She is first editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia and Presumed Incompetent, Vol. II., (2020), and single editor of various other books on Chicana criticism, (University of Arizona Press).

Sponsor: Department of Chicano Latino Studies

Contact Felicia Montes (felicia.montes@csulb.edu) for questions about this event.