Rooted in Resilience: Communality Practices across Borders
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González, Yolanda Mendoza. “Rooted in Resilience: Communality Practices across Borders.” Journal of Latin American Geography 24, no. 2 (2025): 151–61. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/article/971721
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As a Mexican of Indigenous descent who resides in what is currently known as the United States, I know from my multiple communities and relations of care that expand across Mexico and the U.S. Witnessing and experiencing state-sponsored violence, but also methods of life-making by displaced communities across colonial borders, ignites my work. Inspired by Chicana feminist scholars, I draw on my communities' embodied experiences of injustice in and through place as theories of the flesh (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 1983). While my work is also inspired by Indigenous, feminist, Black, and Latinx scholarship from across the hemisphere, here I will center my transborder communities, the roots of where I know from.