Beyond The Wall: Fronteriz@ and Feminist Imaginaries

Beyond the Wall: Fronteriz@ and Feminist Imaginaries offers an alternative mapping and framing of the U.S. Mexico border through the documentation and analysis of feminist projects in the borderlands. Dr. Téllez uses these examples to ask how we can imagine the borderlands as a space of feminist resistance, conviviality, agency, and creative community building, one that differs from the rhetoric of invasion, crime, insecurity, violence and illegality that is popularized in the media.

Michelle Téllez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona who writes about transnational community formations, Chicana feminism, and gendered migration along the U.S./Mexico borderlands through her research, public scholarship and digital humanities work. She has a long history in grassroots organizing projects and community-based arts and performance. She co-edited The Chicana M(other)work Anthology: Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolución, published in March of 2019 and is the author of Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect published in September 2021 by the University of Arizona Press.

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