Jesica Siham Fernández
Biographic Data
| ID | 114345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesica Siham Fernández |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesica Siham |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernández |
| SIGNATURE | FERNÁNDEZ J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5513-7413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sociopolitical Practices Supporting Youth Critical Action: Reflections on Play, Performance and Protagonismo
Grounded in a sociopolitical development framework, this paper describes youth critical action via three practices: play, performance and protagonismo . Play is an activity associated with normative developmental behavior that is often characterized as a form of entertainment, recreation, and exploration. Performance, on the other hand, is acting with intention to convey or express a meaningful message. Protagonismo , while similar to play and pe…
Methodological retrospective: Critical participatory action research
Mosaicos de la Comunidad (Mosaics of the Community): Community-Engaged Participatory Muraling with Madres Emprendedoras
In this paper, we describe a collaborative community-based research project that centered on community members’ lived experiences, which led to the identification of key community issues that resulted in a representative art project in the form of a public mural. Eleven mothers who were long-time residents of the community were the drivers of the issue identification and mural creation. The issues identified, and subsequently depicted in the mura…
Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology
Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology
Threading a decolonial feminist response to Covid‐19: One community psychologist's reflection on the assemblages of violence
To challenge and interrogate the assemblages of violence produced by racial capitalism, and exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic, community psychologists must engage in a transdisciplinary critical ethically reflexive practice. In this reflexive essay, or first‐person account, I offer a decolonial feminist response to COVID‐19 that draws strength from the writings of three women of Color decolonial and postcolonial feminist thinkers: Gloria E. An…
Ciranda, a circle of encounter: Reflections on a decolonial pedagogical activity on human rights discourses with Latinx students
1 We use "Latinx" to denote the complexities of Latinidad, that according to Alan Pelaez Lopez (2018) extend beyond gender inclusivity and language to uncover four interconnected wounds that shape Latinx subjectivities.These wounds, signaled by the "x," include: the wound of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, femicides, and inarticulation, or the inability to articulate and denounce intersecting forms of violence
Healing heartburns and radically dreaming the new university into being: Retrospective auto-ethnographic poetries
We crafted our article in the spirit of decolonial women of color writings, as we engaged a retrospective auto-ethnographic methodology through poetries. We conceptualize auto-ethnography as a method rooted in Cherrie Moraga’s theory in the flesh. Retrospective auto-ethnography aids us in our process of looking back as we produce poetries in the present and toward the future. Our poetries are informed by the subjectivities that locate us within t…
Sembrando Semillas , sowing seeds: Reflections on Latinx representations in US community psychology's AJCP
Latinx have contributed to the foundation and formation of the United States, and as this demographic increases, overlooking their unique experiences and lived conditions can limit community psychology's potential to better support them in their wellbeing. Thus, in alignment with the call for a virtual special issue highlighting critical themes in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP), we take an exemplar approach to reviewing 15 ar…
The society for community research and action on a path toward conocimiento: From silences and statements to solidarities in action in U.S. community psychology
A first-person narrative essay is presented through a critically reflexive auto-ethnography of a community psychologist's experiences as a member of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) and (as of this writing) co-chair of the Cultural, Ethnic and Racial Affairs council. Through this methodological orientation, an analysis of some of the discourses that circulated within the SCRA listserv in relation to the murder of Mr. George Fl…
Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice
A theoretical and empirical reflection on the possibilities of broadening sociopolitical development (SPD) to consider how emotional work contributes to the development of a sociopolitical emotional awareness among young organizers resisting racial injustices is discussed. Sociopolitical emotional awareness brings together the intellectual and the emotional through sociopolitical engagement practices of discerning emotions through critical reflec…
A Mujerista Liberation Psychology Perspective on Testimonio to Cultivate Decolonial Healing
Grounded in a liberation psychology mujerista epistemology and a decolonial feminist standpoint, the article describes the development and application of testimonio as a resource toward healing. The application of this resource goes beyond the classroom to include clinical settings. By bridging Latin America liberation psychology within LatCrit theory, the article describes testimonio as a decolonial feminist mujerista strategy to cultivate decol…
Dissident women's letter writing as decolonial plurilogues of relational solidarities for epistemic justice
Braiding our words, “dissi‐dance,” and desires, this article engages how various social actors, and communities—which we are a part of and belong to—challenge structural violence, oppression, inequity, and social, racial, and epistemic injustice. We thread these reflections through our written words, in subversive letters which we offer in the form of a written relational conversation among us: a plurilogue that emerges in response to our specifi…
And now we resist”: Three testimonios on the importance of decoloniality within psychology
In recent years, the field of psychology has turned to decoloniality as a potential epistemological standpoint and framework to understand how systems of power reproduce oppression (Fanon, 1963; Fernández, 2018; Maldonado‐Torres, 2016; Quijano, 2000). In classroom and community‐engaged research settings, critical community psychologists, specifically those grounded in a decolonial feminist epistemology (Bell, 2018; Dutta, 2018; Fernandez, 2018; S…
Testimoniando El Presente under Covid-19: A pedagogical reflection on the Testimonio essay assignment
This was 1976 reinvented”: The role of framing in the development of a South African youth movement
The literature on contemporary youth organizing has documented psychological benefits associated with participation and some evidence of local political impact. But how do local organizing campaigns transform into regional or national movements? This is a practical question facing youth organizers and one that calls for attention from researchers. In this article, we draw on 3 years of ethnographic fieldwork with South Africa's Equal Education (E…
Madres emprendedoras, entrepreneurial mothers: Reflections from a community-based participatory action research course with Mexican immigrant madres in the Silicon Valley
In this paper we present and discuss the creation and implementation of a community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) university course, and corresponding action projects, developed in collaboration with 11 Mexican immigrant madres (mothers). The Greater Washington community constitutes the setting for this project, as it is characterized by growing economic disparities reflective of the gentrification that characterizes the Silicon Val…
Muxeres en Acción: The Power of Community Cultural Wealth in Latinas Organizing for Health Equity
Community psychology, despite its commitment to social justice, is prone to engage in deficit-based perspectives that do not appropriately capture the strengths of Latinx communities. Given these limitations, we use a Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) (Yosso, 2005) framework to describe how muxeres, Latina women who identify as promotoras, madres, and mamás, leveraged their political power and culturally informed leadership to improve the health an…
Retrospective Autoethnographies: A Call for Decolonial Imaginings for the New University
In this article, we present "retrospective autoethnographies" as a methodology for decolonial inquiry/intervention in the context of neoliberal settings, specifically the university. Autoethnography represents that epistemic and methodological space where the personal intersects with the political, historical, and cultural to critique everyday power structures. Instead of inserting the autobiographical past into the present, we write of our prese…
Documenting sociopolitical development via participatory action research (PAR) with women of color student activists in the neoliberal university
Political activism attests to the sociopolitical development and agency of young people. Yet the literature sparingly engages the intersectional subjectivities that inform the sociopolitical development of young people, especially women of color. Important questions remain in the theorizing of sociopolitical development among youth engaged in political activism within higher education settings. Thus, we focus on the following question: What exper…
Decolonial Pedagogy in Community Psychology: White Students Disrupting White Innocence via a Family Portrait Assignment
A decolonizing standpoint in community psychology is discussed in relation to the Family Portrait Assignment—a pedagogical tool developed and implemented to facilitate white students’ decolonial thinking. The Family Portrait Assignment contributes to the limited of decolonial pedagogical tools in community psychology. Through a critical discourse analysis of student's essays, I discuss how decolonial thinking, including a critical sociohistorical…
Toward an Ethical Reflective Practice of a Theory in the Flesh: Embodied Subjectivities in a Youth Participatory Action Research Mural Project
The focus of this paper is to demonstrate how embodied subjectivities shape research experiences. Through an autoethnography of my involvement in a Youth Participatory Action Research ( YPAR ) after‐school program with low‐income and working‐class youth of Color from predominantly Latinx communities I examined my embodied subjectivities, via an ethical reflective practice, as these surfaced in the research context. Autoethnography is presented as…
Living on the Margins of Democratic Representation: Socially Connected Community Responsibility as Civic Engagement in an Unincorporated Area
We examine the civic engagement processes and practices among Viva Live Oak! photovoice project participants residing in an unincorporated area with limited local democratic representation and institutional resources. Eight individual interviews and thirty-one group photovoice meetings were conducted, audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed. We describe how social structures of unincorporation shaped community life, and how this unique context …
Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
This chapter reviews citizenship constructions in the United States and examines how historic, legal, economic, schooling, and multicultural “melting pot” ideology landscapes shape citizenship and its performance. It introduces cultural citizenship as an alternative starting point for citizenship and its performance, providing a theoretical foundation and empirical evidence for cultural citizenship, and argues in support of incorporating this fra…
A Community with Diversity of Culture, Wealth, Resources, and Living Experiences”: Defining Neighborhood in an Unincorporated Community
To obtain a better understanding of how people living in an unincorporated region define their neighborhood, a long‐term photovoice project was conducted. Thirty‐one photovoice sessions and eight structured interviews were coded and analyzed to assess participants’ neighborhood definitions. Participant's difficulties in identifying the geographic, physical and demographic characteristics of their neighborhood led them to use social interactions, …
Retrospective Autoethnographies: A Call for Decolonial Imaginings for the New University
In this article, we present "retrospective autoethnographies" as a methodology for decolonial inquiry/intervention in the context of neoliberal settings, specifically the university. Autoethnography represents that epistemic and methodological space where the personal intersects with the political, historical, and cultural to critique everyday power structures. Instead of inserting the autobiographical past into the present, we write of our prese…
Toward an Ethical Reflective Practice of a Theory in the Flesh: Embodied Subjectivities in a Youth Participatory Action Research Mural Project
The focus of this paper is to demonstrate how embodied subjectivities shape research experiences. Through an autoethnography of my involvement in a Youth Participatory Action Research ( YPAR ) after‐school program with low‐income and working‐class youth of Color from predominantly Latinx communities I examined my embodied subjectivities, via an ethical reflective practice, as these surfaced in the research context. Autoethnography is presented as…
Muxeres en Acción: The Power of Community Cultural Wealth in Latinas Organizing for Health Equity
Community psychology, despite its commitment to social justice, is prone to engage in deficit-based perspectives that do not appropriately capture the strengths of Latinx communities. Given these limitations, we use a Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) (Yosso, 2005) framework to describe how muxeres, Latina women who identify as promotoras, madres, and mamás, leveraged their political power and culturally informed leadership to improve the health an…
Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice
A theoretical and empirical reflection on the possibilities of broadening sociopolitical development (SPD) to consider how emotional work contributes to the development of a sociopolitical emotional awareness among young organizers resisting racial injustices is discussed. Sociopolitical emotional awareness brings together the intellectual and the emotional through sociopolitical engagement practices of discerning emotions through critical reflec…
And now we resist”: Three testimonios on the importance of decoloniality within psychology
In recent years, the field of psychology has turned to decoloniality as a potential epistemological standpoint and framework to understand how systems of power reproduce oppression (Fanon, 1963; Fernández, 2018; Maldonado‐Torres, 2016; Quijano, 2000). In classroom and community‐engaged research settings, critical community psychologists, specifically those grounded in a decolonial feminist epistemology (Bell, 2018; Dutta, 2018; Fernandez, 2018; S…
Decolonial Pedagogy in Community Psychology: White Students Disrupting White Innocence via a Family Portrait Assignment
A decolonizing standpoint in community psychology is discussed in relation to the Family Portrait Assignment—a pedagogical tool developed and implemented to facilitate white students’ decolonial thinking. The Family Portrait Assignment contributes to the limited of decolonial pedagogical tools in community psychology. Through a critical discourse analysis of student's essays, I discuss how decolonial thinking, including a critical sociohistorical…
Living on the Margins of Democratic Representation: Socially Connected Community Responsibility as Civic Engagement in an Unincorporated Area
We examine the civic engagement processes and practices among Viva Live Oak! photovoice project participants residing in an unincorporated area with limited local democratic representation and institutional resources. Eight individual interviews and thirty-one group photovoice meetings were conducted, audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed. We describe how social structures of unincorporation shaped community life, and how this unique context …
Documenting sociopolitical development via participatory action research (PAR) with women of color student activists in the neoliberal university
Political activism attests to the sociopolitical development and agency of young people. Yet the literature sparingly engages the intersectional subjectivities that inform the sociopolitical development of young people, especially women of color. Important questions remain in the theorizing of sociopolitical development among youth engaged in political activism within higher education settings. Thus, we focus on the following question: What exper…
A Community with Diversity of Culture, Wealth, Resources, and Living Experiences”: Defining Neighborhood in an Unincorporated Community
To obtain a better understanding of how people living in an unincorporated region define their neighborhood, a long‐term photovoice project was conducted. Thirty‐one photovoice sessions and eight structured interviews were coded and analyzed to assess participants’ neighborhood definitions. Participant's difficulties in identifying the geographic, physical and demographic characteristics of their neighborhood led them to use social interactions, …
A Mujerista Liberation Psychology Perspective on Testimonio to Cultivate Decolonial Healing
Grounded in a liberation psychology mujerista epistemology and a decolonial feminist standpoint, the article describes the development and application of testimonio as a resource toward healing. The application of this resource goes beyond the classroom to include clinical settings. By bridging Latin America liberation psychology within LatCrit theory, the article describes testimonio as a decolonial feminist mujerista strategy to cultivate decol…
Sembrando Semillas , sowing seeds: Reflections on Latinx representations in US community psychology's AJCP
Latinx have contributed to the foundation and formation of the United States, and as this demographic increases, overlooking their unique experiences and lived conditions can limit community psychology's potential to better support them in their wellbeing. Thus, in alignment with the call for a virtual special issue highlighting critical themes in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP), we take an exemplar approach to reviewing 15 ar…
Madres emprendedoras, entrepreneurial mothers: Reflections from a community-based participatory action research course with Mexican immigrant madres in the Silicon Valley
In this paper we present and discuss the creation and implementation of a community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) university course, and corresponding action projects, developed in collaboration with 11 Mexican immigrant madres (mothers). The Greater Washington community constitutes the setting for this project, as it is characterized by growing economic disparities reflective of the gentrification that characterizes the Silicon Val…
Dissident women's letter writing as decolonial plurilogues of relational solidarities for epistemic justice
Braiding our words, “dissi‐dance,” and desires, this article engages how various social actors, and communities—which we are a part of and belong to—challenge structural violence, oppression, inequity, and social, racial, and epistemic injustice. We thread these reflections through our written words, in subversive letters which we offer in the form of a written relational conversation among us: a plurilogue that emerges in response to our specifi…
This was 1976 reinvented”: The role of framing in the development of a South African youth movement
The literature on contemporary youth organizing has documented psychological benefits associated with participation and some evidence of local political impact. But how do local organizing campaigns transform into regional or national movements? This is a practical question facing youth organizers and one that calls for attention from researchers. In this article, we draw on 3 years of ethnographic fieldwork with South Africa's Equal Education (E…
Threading a decolonial feminist response to Covid‐19: One community psychologist's reflection on the assemblages of violence
To challenge and interrogate the assemblages of violence produced by racial capitalism, and exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic, community psychologists must engage in a transdisciplinary critical ethically reflexive practice. In this reflexive essay, or first‐person account, I offer a decolonial feminist response to COVID‐19 that draws strength from the writings of three women of Color decolonial and postcolonial feminist thinkers: Gloria E. An…
A Community with Diversity of Culture, Wealth, Resources, and Living Experiences”: Defining Neighborhood in an Unincorporated Community
To obtain a better understanding of how people living in an unincorporated region define their neighborhood, a long‐term photovoice project was conducted. Thirty‐one photovoice sessions and eight structured interviews were coded and analyzed to assess participants’ neighborhood definitions. Participant's difficulties in identifying the geographic, physical and demographic characteristics of their neighborhood led them to use social interactions, …
Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
This chapter reviews citizenship constructions in the United States and examines how historic, legal, economic, schooling, and multicultural “melting pot” ideology landscapes shape citizenship and its performance. It introduces cultural citizenship as an alternative starting point for citizenship and its performance, providing a theoretical foundation and empirical evidence for cultural citizenship, and argues in support of incorporating this fra…
Documenting sociopolitical development via participatory action research (PAR) with women of color student activists in the neoliberal university
Political activism attests to the sociopolitical development and agency of young people. Yet the literature sparingly engages the intersectional subjectivities that inform the sociopolitical development of young people, especially women of color. Important questions remain in the theorizing of sociopolitical development among youth engaged in political activism within higher education settings. Thus, we focus on the following question: What exper…
Decolonial Pedagogy in Community Psychology: White Students Disrupting White Innocence via a Family Portrait Assignment
A decolonizing standpoint in community psychology is discussed in relation to the Family Portrait Assignment—a pedagogical tool developed and implemented to facilitate white students’ decolonial thinking. The Family Portrait Assignment contributes to the limited of decolonial pedagogical tools in community psychology. Through a critical discourse analysis of student's essays, I discuss how decolonial thinking, including a critical sociohistorical…
Toward an Ethical Reflective Practice of a Theory in the Flesh: Embodied Subjectivities in a Youth Participatory Action Research Mural Project
The focus of this paper is to demonstrate how embodied subjectivities shape research experiences. Through an autoethnography of my involvement in a Youth Participatory Action Research ( YPAR ) after‐school program with low‐income and working‐class youth of Color from predominantly Latinx communities I examined my embodied subjectivities, via an ethical reflective practice, as these surfaced in the research context. Autoethnography is presented as…
Living on the Margins of Democratic Representation: Socially Connected Community Responsibility as Civic Engagement in an Unincorporated Area
We examine the civic engagement processes and practices among Viva Live Oak! photovoice project participants residing in an unincorporated area with limited local democratic representation and institutional resources. Eight individual interviews and thirty-one group photovoice meetings were conducted, audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed. We describe how social structures of unincorporation shaped community life, and how this unique context …
Madres emprendedoras, entrepreneurial mothers: Reflections from a community-based participatory action research course with Mexican immigrant madres in the Silicon Valley
In this paper we present and discuss the creation and implementation of a community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) university course, and corresponding action projects, developed in collaboration with 11 Mexican immigrant madres (mothers). The Greater Washington community constitutes the setting for this project, as it is characterized by growing economic disparities reflective of the gentrification that characterizes the Silicon Val…
Muxeres en Acción: The Power of Community Cultural Wealth in Latinas Organizing for Health Equity
Community psychology, despite its commitment to social justice, is prone to engage in deficit-based perspectives that do not appropriately capture the strengths of Latinx communities. Given these limitations, we use a Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) (Yosso, 2005) framework to describe how muxeres, Latina women who identify as promotoras, madres, and mamás, leveraged their political power and culturally informed leadership to improve the health an…
Retrospective Autoethnographies: A Call for Decolonial Imaginings for the New University
In this article, we present "retrospective autoethnographies" as a methodology for decolonial inquiry/intervention in the context of neoliberal settings, specifically the university. Autoethnography represents that epistemic and methodological space where the personal intersects with the political, historical, and cultural to critique everyday power structures. Instead of inserting the autobiographical past into the present, we write of our prese…
Testimoniando El Presente under Covid-19: A pedagogical reflection on the Testimonio essay assignment
This was 1976 reinvented”: The role of framing in the development of a South African youth movement
The literature on contemporary youth organizing has documented psychological benefits associated with participation and some evidence of local political impact. But how do local organizing campaigns transform into regional or national movements? This is a practical question facing youth organizers and one that calls for attention from researchers. In this article, we draw on 3 years of ethnographic fieldwork with South Africa's Equal Education (E…
The society for community research and action on a path toward conocimiento: From silences and statements to solidarities in action in U.S. community psychology
A first-person narrative essay is presented through a critically reflexive auto-ethnography of a community psychologist's experiences as a member of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) and (as of this writing) co-chair of the Cultural, Ethnic and Racial Affairs council. Through this methodological orientation, an analysis of some of the discourses that circulated within the SCRA listserv in relation to the murder of Mr. George Fl…
Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice
A theoretical and empirical reflection on the possibilities of broadening sociopolitical development (SPD) to consider how emotional work contributes to the development of a sociopolitical emotional awareness among young organizers resisting racial injustices is discussed. Sociopolitical emotional awareness brings together the intellectual and the emotional through sociopolitical engagement practices of discerning emotions through critical reflec…
A Mujerista Liberation Psychology Perspective on Testimonio to Cultivate Decolonial Healing
Grounded in a liberation psychology mujerista epistemology and a decolonial feminist standpoint, the article describes the development and application of testimonio as a resource toward healing. The application of this resource goes beyond the classroom to include clinical settings. By bridging Latin America liberation psychology within LatCrit theory, the article describes testimonio as a decolonial feminist mujerista strategy to cultivate decol…
Dissident women's letter writing as decolonial plurilogues of relational solidarities for epistemic justice
Braiding our words, “dissi‐dance,” and desires, this article engages how various social actors, and communities—which we are a part of and belong to—challenge structural violence, oppression, inequity, and social, racial, and epistemic injustice. We thread these reflections through our written words, in subversive letters which we offer in the form of a written relational conversation among us: a plurilogue that emerges in response to our specifi…
And now we resist”: Three testimonios on the importance of decoloniality within psychology
In recent years, the field of psychology has turned to decoloniality as a potential epistemological standpoint and framework to understand how systems of power reproduce oppression (Fanon, 1963; Fernández, 2018; Maldonado‐Torres, 2016; Quijano, 2000). In classroom and community‐engaged research settings, critical community psychologists, specifically those grounded in a decolonial feminist epistemology (Bell, 2018; Dutta, 2018; Fernandez, 2018; S…
Ciranda, a circle of encounter: Reflections on a decolonial pedagogical activity on human rights discourses with Latinx students
1 We use "Latinx" to denote the complexities of Latinidad, that according to Alan Pelaez Lopez (2018) extend beyond gender inclusivity and language to uncover four interconnected wounds that shape Latinx subjectivities.These wounds, signaled by the "x," include: the wound of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, femicides, and inarticulation, or the inability to articulate and denounce intersecting forms of violence
Healing heartburns and radically dreaming the new university into being: Retrospective auto-ethnographic poetries
We crafted our article in the spirit of decolonial women of color writings, as we engaged a retrospective auto-ethnographic methodology through poetries. We conceptualize auto-ethnography as a method rooted in Cherrie Moraga’s theory in the flesh. Retrospective auto-ethnography aids us in our process of looking back as we produce poetries in the present and toward the future. Our poetries are informed by the subjectivities that locate us within t…
Sembrando Semillas , sowing seeds: Reflections on Latinx representations in US community psychology's AJCP
Latinx have contributed to the foundation and formation of the United States, and as this demographic increases, overlooking their unique experiences and lived conditions can limit community psychology's potential to better support them in their wellbeing. Thus, in alignment with the call for a virtual special issue highlighting critical themes in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP), we take an exemplar approach to reviewing 15 ar…
Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology
Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology
Threading a decolonial feminist response to Covid‐19: One community psychologist's reflection on the assemblages of violence
To challenge and interrogate the assemblages of violence produced by racial capitalism, and exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic, community psychologists must engage in a transdisciplinary critical ethically reflexive practice. In this reflexive essay, or first‐person account, I offer a decolonial feminist response to COVID‐19 that draws strength from the writings of three women of Color decolonial and postcolonial feminist thinkers: Gloria E. An…
Methodological retrospective: Critical participatory action research
Mosaicos de la Comunidad (Mosaics of the Community): Community-Engaged Participatory Muraling with Madres Emprendedoras
In this paper, we describe a collaborative community-based research project that centered on community members’ lived experiences, which led to the identification of key community issues that resulted in a representative art project in the form of a public mural. Eleven mothers who were long-time residents of the community were the drivers of the issue identification and mural creation. The issues identified, and subsequently depicted in the mura…
Sociopolitical Practices Supporting Youth Critical Action: Reflections on Play, Performance and Protagonismo
Grounded in a sociopolitical development framework, this paper describes youth critical action via three practices: play, performance and protagonismo . Play is an activity associated with normative developmental behavior that is often characterized as a form of entertainment, recreation, and exploration. Performance, on the other hand, is acting with intention to convey or express a meaningful message. Protagonismo , while similar to play and pe…
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