This episode focuses on Sol y Luna, a club created by Destiny Gutierrez and Sarah Espinoza, which was established as a space for LGBTQ+ Latine students and allies at Arizona State University. Sol y Luna provides guidance, support, and community for students of intersectional identities looking for a group with whom they can share their experiences.

Destiny Gutierrez, an undergraduate student at ASU, shares on their experience with their community and what it means to create a club that aims to shed a light on the unique experiences of Latine and LGBTQ+ students.

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The importance of Black family history, advocacy, and its influence is of great significance to Shantia. Shantia Estes (they/them), an Institute of Museum and Library Services fellow and an undergraduate student majoring in Elementary Education. Shantia found their passion for family history long before joining the program. Photographs and items are what bring Shantia into the journey of memory keeping and being a part of documenting Black Collections, alongside fellow, Taelor Bishop, and their mentor Jessica Salow, who helped them navigate the pathways of making connections with the past and the future.

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Episode 5 features Dr. Magaly Ordoñez, a Latinx Sexualities Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah, and Dr. Gabriela G. Corona Valencia, a postdoctoral research associate in the Latina/Latino Studies Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Magaly and Gabriela discuss “Archival Alchemy: Chicanx Feminist Memory Keeping and the Transformative Power of Hauntings,” with our guest host Yesenia Ramos, a CDA Graduate Assistant, Knowledge River Scholar, and MLIS Graduate.

Magaly Ordoñez, Ph.D. (they/them) research includes historical and contemporary cannabis culture in Los Angeles to understand how queer Chicanx/Latinx cannabis histories, relationships, and spaces refuse subversion to a capitalist cannabis industry by centering care, critical cannabis education, and abolitionist feminist politics. Dr. Gabriela G. Corona Valencia's research includes histories of medicine and public health, pedagogies of pleasure and desire, and critical archival methodologies.

This conversation was recorded in Oct. 2023 and is an extension of a conversation started at a Conference for MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social).

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