About Us
We are a collective of xingona sCHOLArs, community activists, and artists all of whom are self described cholas; and who are passionate to create space for the documentation, creation and celebration of all things Chola Culture.
Mission: To provide space in academia to empower La Chola through the arts, her participation in society, education and beyond.
Vision: To hold space for the cultural, scholastic, artistic, and institutional presentation of La Chola.
Register to attend this amazing online conference as registration is free, but limited….
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-itqT8vHdK2AOzAI7d0MCA7Ontz3soR
Meet the Amazing gente behind this Conference:
https://scholarxicana.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/the-cholxs-behind-this-incredible-event/
Hosted by TWO BUSY GALS
La Chola Conference, Virtual Presentation
Hosted at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
By CAMARADAS (The Chicana/o Latina/o Graduate and Professional Student Association)
PRESENTATION LINE UP
Friday, April 23, 2021
| 9:00am-9:30am | Opening, Welcome & Keynote | Veronica Sandoval |
| 9:30am-10:00am | The Chola Wannabe: A Chicana Reflection on Culture Appropriation of Chola Culture and Aesthetics | Ariana Cano |
| 10:00am-10:30am | The sCHOLAr or the Scholar? Reflection, Resistance, and Resilience in Spaces of Higher Education | Charlene Shroulote-Durán |
| 10:30am-11:00am | Chola y Sola: A Chicana’s Fight To Find Her Voz En Academia (An Autohistoria) | Lea Colchado |
| 11:00am-11:30am | Rural Chola en la Academia: Testimonios of a Chola Feminist | Gabriela R Rios |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Mujeres Malas: Deviant Femininities | Dr. Angelica Yanez |
| 12:00pm-12:30pm | Lunch | |
| 12:30pm-1:00pm | Making the Chola Closet Work for You | Elvira Zamora |
| 1:00pm-2:00pm | Cholas, Chongas, and Paisa Girls: Engaging the Power of “Bad” Femininities “Chongivity Activity: Latinx Hyperfemininity as Iconography” “Paisa Girl Epistemologies: The Chola Ranchera Style of Malandrinas” “Cholas, Cha-Chas, and Other “Bad” Fems: Queering Genealogies of Chicana/x Femininities” | Daphne Taylor-Garcia (Moderator) Jillian Hernandez Yessica Garcia Hernandez, Stacy I. Macías |
| 2:00pm-2:30pm | Ay, Pero This Paper is Like Literally About Chongas: How a Subculture of Young Cuban-American Women Rose to Challenge Their Community’s Racial, Sexual, and Class-Based Identity | Paula Davis Hoffman |
| 2:30pm-3:00pm | Cholas Falsas, A Vignette in Sonia Gutiérrez’s Novel Dreaming with Mariposas | Sonia Gutierrez |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Part 1: From Firme509 to Documenting Cholas in Art & Photography from the West to East Coast Part 2: OG Arte and Legendary DisEmpowerment: Real Cholas VS Chavalas (Commentary by OG Chola Vida) | Madeline Alviso Ramirez |
| 4:00pm-5:00pm | Regalia As Resistance: Chola Visibility Matters | Jess Vasquez y Vanessa Alvizo |
Saturday, April 24, 2021
| 9:00am-10:00am | sCHOLAr M/others Reclaiming Queer Mujerista Spiritual Activism for Our Children | Dr. Renee Lemus & Dr. Cristina Rose (Smith) |
| 10:00am-11:00am | Cholas: Embodiments of Resistance | Dr. Vanessa M. Bustamante & Lourdes Landeros |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | Latinx Criminalization: From Colonization to IncarcerationFilm and Discussion of Bad Hombres, A Latino Justice Documentary Series | Dr. Xuan Santos & Marisa Salinas |
| 12:00pm-12:30pm | Lunch | |
| 12:30pm-1:00pm | Workshop: How to be a Xingona in 10 Easy Steps | Roxana Pardo Garcia “La Roxay” |
| 1:00pm-1:30pm | System-Impacted Motherwork: Homegirls Dodging Criminalization | Katherine L. Maldonado Fabela |
| 1:30pm-2:00pm | Workshop: Harvard Hood | Dr. Velia Rincon |
| 2:00pm-2:30pm | “Towards a New Cholx Consciousness: The Visual and Written Rhetorics of Cholx Artistas in Chihuahua, El Paso, and Chicago” | Dr. Elvira Carrizal |
| 2:30pm-3:00pm | Photovoice: Lowrider Life and Chola Pride in Espanola New Mexico, USA | Dr. LeAnne Salazar Montoya |
| 3:00pm- 3:30pm | Chicana Crimonology | Yomira Amora |
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | L.A. Cholas: Subjectivity and Chola Practices | Madeline Alviso |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Closing Keynote | Dra. Vanessa Bustamante |
Call for Presentations now closed
Cholas are political embodiments of cultural agents in Chicanx communities who celebrate chola form as brown female power. Their purposeful embodiment as cholas/homegirls, and their commitment to the betterment of their barrios has been practiced throughout generations. As Chicana feminist, Cholas have continued to propel their political purposes forward, however their presence within our “imagined communities” have gained a new forum through the introduction of chola subjectivity via pop cultural production. Although the chola as object has previously been seen through various productions, chola as subject can now more visibly be found through activist organizations like Chola Vida and series like Cholas Try. Discourse on chola aesthetics and origins can now be found through multiple social media articles and videos which explain the history and legacy of chola cultural practices. Within these new and old productions arise questions that we continue to ask about cholas and chola subjectivity. Is the chola more than identity? Can the chola be redefined? Is the chola feminist? Are chola practices still relevant to contemporary women in our communities? How has the chola and chola politics changed in a post Trump era?
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-Madeline Alviso Ramirez, Chola Vida/Chola Pinup, founder, CEO
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