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Madelaine Cahuas
Assistant Professor of Geography, Environment and Society
University of Minnesota

Abstract:

What would happen to our geographic analyses if we wholeheartedly approached Latinx women and non-binary people as significant, multifaceted spatial thinkers and actors who form Latinx feminist geographies? And how may these Latinx feminist geographies hold lessons for working towards more socially just and liberatory futures? In this talk, I grapple with these questions by thinking with the creative contributions of Latinx women and non-binary people in Tkaronto using a testimonio approach grounded in Chicana/Latina, Black and Indigenous feminisms. I argue that Latinx feminist geographies reveal how Latinx women and non-binary people articulate an anti-colonial feminist sense of place and praxis as they challenge systems of domination and create spaces of community care, solidarity, art, activism and healing. If we are to build more ethically expansive geographies it is urgent and necessary for us to meaningfully engage with Latinx feminist geographies and their transformative possibilities.Ìý

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