Querencia Across Generations

Querencia Across Generations

It’s the day before the 4th of July and we are driving north from Denton toward the Llano Estacado.  José is behind the wheel and I’m not sure who of us first says that Priscilla’s house was for us a “feminist rest stop.” We are beginning to put this language of the...
The Relations Holding Us

The Relations Holding Us

In the last couple of years Priscilla has been taking a lot of photos. She posts them on social media sites as #ChicanaBirder.  The above photo contributed to the playwright and director Virginia Grise’s project on Instagram to welcome spring equinox 2021. For the...
Islamabad -> Syracuse -> Houston

Islamabad -> Syracuse -> Houston

Joining us as the Clancy Taylor Public Humanities Summer Intern, we are glad to have Zainab aboard for the project! She is a second year PhD student at Rice. No two public humanities ventures are identical, and there is some amount of figuring it out as you go...
Heading Out

Heading Out

The Project, the “I,” Stories of Feminism & Place   The Project The decision to name this project Living West as Feminists is a way to generate discussion of the very problems invoked by the terms “US West” and “feminism.”   The problems are so many.  ...