The Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) at the University of Texas


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The Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin Commission for Women, ALLGO, Resistencia Books, Red Salmon Arts, and BookWoman will sponsor an event honoring the life and work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa. Our tribute will take place on Friday, October 22, on the University of Texas campus in the Texas Union, with an evening reception off-campus. The tribute will continue on Saturday morning, October 23, at ALLGO’s Tillery Street Theater, 701 Tillery Street, in Austin. Our gathering will also feature dialogue about community health, with a focus on diabetes. Diabetes, a disease that disproportionately affects Latinas, and most especially affects people in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, ended Anzaldúa's life far too at early, at the age of 61. Throughout the course of two days, we will also honor Anzaldúa personal humility and generosity, her South Texas roots, and recognize her as an alumna of the University of Texas at Austin Our tribute will take the include dialogues about the effects of Anzaldúa's life and work in many realms, personal recuerdos, performance, and a discussion about community health with a focus on diabetes. Additionally, this event has already provided a rare opportunity genuine collaboration between our academic centers and community organizations. We welcome people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, sexual identities and orientations, educational backgrounds, walks of life, and ages, who are interested in Gloria Anzaldua's life and work, or would like to know who she was and why she matters. Both the Texas Union and ALLGO's Tillery Street Theater are accessible to people with mobility impairments. If you require sign language interpretation, please contact Virginia Raymond at virginiaraymond@austin.rr.com, ahead of time. We are requesting advance notice only so that we do not take away a certified ASL interpreter from a place where a member of the Deaf community requires interpreter services, if there is no Deaf person planning to be at our tribute. English to Spanish language interpretation available on request at the tribute. For directions by car, foot, or city bus to ALLGO, please see http://www.allgo.org/Contact_Us/Map/map.html or call 472-2001.