Adela C Licona

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• Licona, A. C. (2012). Zines in third space: Radical cooperation and borderlands rhetoric. SUNY Press.

Chapters

• Licona, A. C. (2017). “Trans(affective)mediation: Feeling Our Way from Paper to Digitized Zines.” (Reprint). In Queer Technologies: Affordances, Affect, Ambivalence. Routledge.
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  This special journal issue and our chapter therein was reprinted as a book through Routledge PressBrouwer, Daniel, and Adela C. Licona (2016/2017). “Trans(affective)mediation: Feeling Our Way from Paper to Digitized Zines.” Spec. issue on Queer Technologies. Eds. Katherine Sender and Adrienne Shaw reprinted as edited collection by Routledge.Title: Queer Technologies: Affordances, Affect, Ambivalence (Routledge, 2017)Publication: 24/05/2017Webpage: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.routledge.com_products_9780415789486&d=CwIFaQ&c=AGbYxfJbXK67KfXyGqyv2Ejiz41FqQuZFk4A-1IxfAU&r=AHqd0X3tc9kMA8u2Cjmox8qhI2oqPvr0cA-wO-je8dg&m=5LtpxBY99XBw5B_FohbMma8o2UZq16QKO3SBs9ZNBgs&s=kcCPzva06CKG1VWmkMrLaXeIafDRh8vyvemrM7Y1adY&e=
• Licona, A. C. (2016). “The Pipeline Population: Interrogating the Patterns and Practices of Its Production.”. In Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling: The Nexus of Research, Practice, and Policy.(pp pp. 126-142). Oxford UP.
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  There has been dramatic social change with respect to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights around the world in the last decade. Yet legal protection and inclusion remain limited for LGBT youth. The context of schooling is especially important-schools remain the primary societal institution to which most youth have access and in which nearly all youth spend some significant portion of their lives. LGBT youth are at risk for some of the greatest difficulties experienced by adolescents, and many of those problems have been traced directly to negative school experiences. Research shows that anti-LGBT school victimization results in poor academic performance and negative school attitudes, mental health, and risk behaviors. New studies have identified characteristics of schools that are associated with inclusion and safety for LGBT students, including practices and policies that are associated with positive school climate and student wellbeing.Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling brings together contributions from a diverse group of researchers, policy analysts, and education advocates from around the world to synthesize the practice and policy implications of research on sexual orientation, gender identity, and schooling. The book is interdisciplinary, as studies of LGBT students and schooling have emerged across disciplines including education, clinical, school, and developmental psychology; sociology; and public health. Included are syntheses of key areas of research; examples of new international models for educational practice; case studies of transformational policy and practice; and specific examples of the nexus of research, practice, and policy. The fundamental goal of this book is to advance social justice related to sexual orientation and gender identity through strengthening the relationship between research, practice, and policy to support LGBT students and schools. It will be of interest to school, developmental, and clinical psychologists, educators and school administrators, and LGBT scholars.

Journals/Publications

• Licona, A. C. (2016). "Latin@ Immobilities and Altermobilities Within the U.S. Deportability Regime". Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Special Issue on the Geographies of Mobility).
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  In "Latin@ Immobilities and Altermobilities Within the U.S. Deportability Regime," published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers is now available online, we explore how racialized constructions of a “Latin@ threat” serve as ideological underpinning for the practices of the U.S. deportability regime and also fuel broader practices of policeability, with consequences for Latin@ mobilities and immobilities. Drawing from ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews with Latin@s in Perry, Iowa, we discuss “the border within” as an extension of border politics and borderlands rhetorics to the U.S. heartland, explore imposed mobilities and immobilities, and also recognize tactical immobilities and altermobilities undertaken by Latin@s.
• Licona, A. C. (2016). “Trans(affective)mediation: Feeling Our Way from Paper to Digitized Zines.”. Spec. issue on Queer Technologies. Critical Studies in Media Communication..
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  Brouwer, Daniel, and Adela C. Licona (forthcoming) in Special Issue edited by Katherine Sender and Adrienne Shaw. ABSTRACTZines emerged as quintessentially print texts, with paper formingthe vulnerable, palpable body of the text. Efforts to digitallyarchive zines promise to increase access to them and to extendtheir political projects. Particularly for minoritarian communities,digitization resonates as an urgent process with radical potential.Alongside such possibilities stand concerns about what it meansand, particularly, how it feels to transform zines from paper todigital modes. Through engagement with the Queer Zine ArchiveProject and the POC (People of Color) Zine Project, we argue thattransmediation of print zines into digital artifacts is rife withaffective dynamics. In relation to these affective dynamics, wetake a reflexive stance of ambivalence—not indifference, butrather a strongly felt set of disparate, sometimes dissonant orcontradictory pulls toward and away from digitization. We offerthe concept of trans(affective)mediation as an intervention thattreats print zines and digital zines as distinct and distinctlyaffective domains, with distinct possibilities and constraints,coherences and incoherences, and intensities. Additionally, trans(affective)mediation names the third space between print anddigital that calls for our care and understanding if we are toappreciate and even participate in the politics of queer, POC, andqueer POC zine cultures.
• Licona, A. C. (2015). “Performing Urgency: Slamming and Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis.”. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 20(1), http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/20.1/topoi/fields-et-al/index.html.
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  Fields, Amanda, Londie T. Martin, Adela C. Licona, and Elizabeth H. Tilley. (2015). “Performing Urgency: Slamming and Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 20.1 (2015): n. pag. Web.
• Licona, A. C. (2015). “Queer & How?”. Queer and Now. Ed. Aneil Rallin, Robert Koch, and Trixie G. Smith. Spec. issue of The Writing Instructor Spec. issue of The Writing Instructor, one.
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  Licona, Adela C. and Karma R. Chávez. “Queer & How?” Queer and Now. This is an invited one-page developed equation created in response to the prompt: Queer and Now !Ed. Aneil Rallin, Robert Koch, and Trixie G. Smith. Spec. issue of The Writing Instructor, (2015).
• Licona, A. C. (2015). “Relational Literacies and their Coalitional Possibilities”. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, 18(1), 96-107..
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  This article is accompanied by a co-produced experimental video that is related to the article.“Relational literacies,” informed by women-of-color feminisms and literacy studies, implies the desire and possibility for shared action and conocimiento. It is a third-space concept related to borderlands rhetorics, coalitional gestures, relational knowledges and queer migration politics that can intervene into the delegitimation of particular bodies/bodies-of-knowledge. They can also be understood as multimodal, participatory, and embodied meaning-making practices and performances. Relational literacies, at play in the accompanying experimental video, are related to queer temporalities that are both past- and future-oriented at once and have the capacity to produce knowledge from home spaces, abuelit@ wisdoms, and wild imaginings.Read full article and watch video.
• Licona, A. C. (2015). “Students’ Perspectives on LGBTQ-inclusive Curriculum.”. Equity and Excellence in Education, 48(2), 249-265.
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  Snapp, Shannon D., Hilary Burdge, Adela C. Licona, Raymond L. Moody, and Stephen T. Russell. “Students’ Perspectives on LGBTQ-inclusive Curriculum.” Equity and Excellence in Education 48.2 (2015): 249-265.
• Fields, A., Snapp, S., Russell, S. T., Licona, A. C., Tilley, E. H., & others, . (2014). Youth Voices and Knowledges: Slam Poetry Speaks to Social Policies. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 11(4), 310--321.
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  Abstract Policies related to youth and their sexuality, health,and rights are rarely informed by youth voices and perspectives.We sought to understand youth voice and knowledges intheir conceptions of youth rights expressed through slampoetry. We draw from theories of critical race, LatCrit, andasset-based approaches to adolescent sexual health to exploreyouth’s perspectives on sexuality, health, and rights. Usingrhetorical and content analysis, we analyzed 50 poems from alocal organization that supports youth poetry slam. Keythemes that emerged in our analyses included youth (in33 % of poems), sexuality (7 %), health (10 %), and rights(7 %). A smaller selection of poems (n=9) that representedkey themes were chosen for critical analysis. Youth consistentlyresponded to regressive legislation in Arizona throughslam poetry and expressed the desire for rights to knowledgesand the need for supportive policies and practices that considerand reflect the complex realities of their lives. Youth madecalls for action and community outreach, and they used poetryas an expression of social action and change.We conclude thatyouth voice may inform policies and practices that are comprehensive in support of sexual health and rights for youth.Keywords Youth . Sexuality . Health . Rights . Poetry .Legislation
• Licona, A. C. (2014). Trans~Waters~ Coalitional Thinking on Art + Environment: A Photo Essay in Two Parts. Proximities and Terrain, NP.
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  Licona, Adela C., and Hayward, Eva S., “.” Proximities and Terrain.orgThis collaborative publication was invited by the UA Institute of the Environment is informed by writings and cultural productions at the intersections of environmental justice, Chican@ Studies, Trans* and visual studies.As the fifth in an ongoing series of cross-posts with Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments, this Proximities features a conversation between the University of Arizona’s Adela C. Licona and Eva S. Hayward. Licona and Hayward’s collaborative photo essay—written in a form they present as a type of experimental “coalitional thinking”—gets at links between environmental degradation and issues of social justice, between climate change and racism, between dead fish and desolation, between personal loss and liminal thinking and seeing, and between multi-species solidarities and decomposition.This piece takes place in two (physical and web) locations: The Salton Sea here in Proximities, and Guaymas, Sonora, in Terrain.org. -Eric MagraneSee:http://terrain.org/2014/columns/trans-waters-coalitional-thinking-on-art-and-environment/and alsohttp://environment.arizona.edu/proximities/trans-waters-coalitional-thinking-art-environment-adela-c-licona-and-eva-s-hayward
• Licona, A. C., & Maldonado, M. M. (2014). The social production of Latin@ visibilities and invisibilities: Geographies of power in small town America. Antipode, 46(2), 517--536.
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  Volume 46, Issue 2, pages 517–536, March 2014Abstract: This paper explores the sociospatial dynamics unfolding in Perry, a rural Iowa town that has been facing rapid change since the 1990s due to growing Latin@ settlement. We focus on what we call the social production of Latin@ visibilities and invisibilities:spatialized practices by individuals, families, communities, and institutions that render different Latin@ groups visible or invisible, with repercussions for survival, community integration, and political praxis. We discuss the border within as an extension of borderpolitics and borderlands rhetorics to the US “heartland”, and how the entrenchment of a regime of deportability creates racialized and gendered conditions for the in/visibility of Latin@ immigrants and Latin@s more broadly. We conclude by considering some of thetheoretical and political implications of our analysis for such geographies of power and the social relations, locations, and discourses that constitute and are constituted by them.Resumen: Esta ponencia explora las dinámicas socioespaciales en Perry, una pequeña comunidad rural que ha experimentado cambios rápidos desde la década de los 90, mayormente debido a crecimiento de la comunidad Latin@. Nuestro enfoque es en lo quellamamos la producción social de visibilidades e invisibilidades Latin@s, las practicas espaciales de individuos, familias, comunidades, e instituciones, que resultan en mayor o menorvisibilidad de distintos segmentos de la comunidad Latin@, con consecuencias políticas positivas o negativas, y también con consecuencias para la sobrevivencia/el sustento, ytambién con consecuencias para la integración. Discutimos el concepto de la “frontera interna” como una extensión de las políticas y retoricas de la frontera hacia los espacios del interiorde los Estados Unidos. También exploramos como el establecimiento de un régimen de deportabilidad crea condiciones de genero y de raza que hacen a l@s Latin@s mas o menos visiblescon consecuencias especificas. Concluimos esta ponencia explorando las implicaciones políticas y teóricas de nuestro análisis para lo que llamamos las geografías del poder en losespacios en donde viven y trabajan l@s Latin@s, para las relaciones sociales, los lugares, y los discursos que constituyen y al mismo tiempo son constituidos por dichas geografías.Keywords: Latin@s, immigrants, visibility and invisibility, regime of deportability, border within, geographies of power
• McAlister, J. F., Pearson, K., Lewis, L. B., Rollo, J. M., Adams, T. E., Aiello, G., Allen, B. J., Aronson, A., Baglia, J., Battles, K., & others, . (2014). Editorial Board EOV. Women's Studies in Communication, 37(3).
• Licona, A. C. (2013). Argentina: Stories for a Nation, and: The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory.
• Licona, A. C., & Gonzales, J. S. (2013). Education/Connection/Action: Community Literacies and Shared Knowledges as Creative Productions for Social Justice. Community Literacy Journal, 8(1), 9--20.
• Licona, A. C., & Russell, S. T. (2013). Transdisciplinary and Community Literacies: Shifting Discourses and Practices through New Paradigms of Public Scholarship and Action-Oriented Research. Community Literacy Journal, 8(1), 1--7.
• Stevens, S., Thompson, E. M., Vinson, J., Greene, A., Powell, C., Licona, A. C., & Russell, S. (2013). Informing sexuality education through youth-generated anonymous questions. Sex Education, 13(sup1), S84--S98.
• Licona, A. C., & Soto, S. K. (2012). Editorial Introduction: Reflections, Connections, and New Directions from Arizona. Feminist Formations, 24(1), vii--xii.
• Licona, A. C., McAllister, K. S., Russell, S. T., & Ruggill, J. E. (2012). Straight, Queer, or Academic?.. Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Mock, K., Sandoval, M., Licona, A. C., & Russell, S. T. (2011). Course Designs, Composition Studies.
• Licona, A. C. (2010). Argentina: Stories for a Nation, and: The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory (review). Feminist Formations, 22(2), 201--207.
• Ropers-Huilman, R., & Licona, A. C. (2010). Welcome to Feminist Formations. Feminist Formations, 22(1), vii--x.
• Crabtree, R. D., Sapp, D. A., & Licona, A. C. (2009). Feminist pedagogy: Looking back to move forward.
• Crabtree, R. D., Sapp, D. A., & Licona, A. C. (2009). Introduction: The passion and the praxis of feminist pedagogy. Feminist pedagogy: Looking back to move forward, 1--20.
• Herndl, C. G., & Licona, A. C. (2007). Shifting agency: Agency, kairos, and the possibilities of social action. Communicative practices in workplaces and the professions: Cultural perspectives on the regulation of discourse and organizations, 133--153.
• Licona, A. C. (2005). BORDERLANDS PEREGRINATIONS. N'oesis. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Aut'onoma de Ciudad Ju'arez Ciudad Ju'arez, M\'exico, 16(032), 14-44.
• Maldonado, M. M., & Licona, A. C. (2007). Re-thinking integration as reciprocal and spatialized process. The Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies, 2(4), 128--143.
• Jacob, K. K., & Licona, A. C. (2005). Writing the waves: A dialogue on the tools, tactics, and tensions of feminisms and feminist practices over time and place. NWSA Journal, 17(1), 197--205.
• Licona, A. C. (2005). (B) orderlands' Rhetorics and Representations: The Transformative Potential of Feminist Third-Space Scholarship and Zines. NWSA Journal, 17(2), 104--129.
• Licona, A. C. (2005). Peregrinaciones fronterizas.
• Licona, A. C. (2005). Third space sites, subjectivities and discourses: reimagining the representational potentials of (b) orderlands' rhetorics.
• Licona, A. C., & Rowe, A. M. (2005). After words: Feminist praxis as a bridge between theory and practice. NWSA Journal, 17(2), 130--135.
• Rowe, A. M., & Licona, A. C. (2005). Moving locations: The politics of identities in motion. NWSA Journal, 17(2), 11--14.
• Messer-Davidow, E., Bystydzienski, J. M., Bloom, L. R., Rice, P. J., Licona, A., & Daly, B. O. (2004). Women's Studies and Activism: An Interview with Ellen Messer-Davidow. NWSA Journal, 16(2), 1--14.

Proceedings Publications

• Licona, A. C. (2015, May 2015). “Fragments from ‘Coalitional Gestures, Third Spaces, and Rhetorical Imaginaries: A Dialogue in Queer Chican@ Feminism" in Rhetoric Across Borders. Ed. Anne Teresa Demo. Anderson: Parlor Press, (2015).. In Rhetoric Society of America.
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  Conference Proceedings. Invited.Chávez, Karma R., and Adela C. Licona. Rhetoric Across Borders. Ed. Anne Teresa Demo. Anderson: Parlor Press, (2015).

Presentations

• Licona, A. C. (2017, November). "From Afro-Sweden with Defiance: The Clenched Fist as Coalitional Gesture?". African/Diasporic Futures: Re-Envisioning Power, Interventions, Imaginations and Belonging. Sevilla, Spain: Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diasport (ASWAD).
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  "From Afro-Sweden with Defiance: The Clenched Fist as Coalitional Gesture?" Panel Presentation with Nana Osei-Kofi at “African/Diasporic Futures: Re-Envisioning Power, Interventions, Imaginations and Belonging.” Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diasport (ASWAD). November. Sevilla, Span.Co-presentation with Nana Osei-Kofi
• Lee, J. A., & Licona, A. C. (2015, September). aguamiel: secrets of the agave ON WATER. Arts & Environment Cinematic LunchInstitute of the Environment, University of Arizona.
• Lee, J. A., & Licona, A. C. (2015, September). aguamiel: secrets of the agave ON WATER. Transformative Digital Humanities Conference. University of Maryland.
• Licona, A. C. (2015, 2015). Conference | Workshop Presentations 2015. Conference | Workshop Presentations 2015.
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  8 Conference | Workshop Presentations 2015“Panic-Inflected Imaginaries: A Focus on the Rhetorical Force & Function of the Non-Image.” Panel on Trans/National Imaginaries: Panics, Distortions, and Dispossessions with Eithne Luibheid, Sara McKinnon. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.“#Coalition: Examining the Tensions between Coalitional Gestures and Appropriation.” Roundtable Discussion of Feminist Scholarship on Coalition, with Karma Chávez, Kimberlee Pérez, Ana Milena Ribero, National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Moderator, Panel on Archives of Queer and Trans Chicana/o Latina/o Desire with Frank Galarte, Cristina Serna, and Eddy Alvarez. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.“Feeling Photography: Revisioning Ecological Violences and Cultural Erasures.” Panel on Craft as Material Practice in Borderlands Quilts, Paper Art, and Photography with Marissa Juárez and Sonia Arellano. Feminisms and Rhetorics, Phoenix, Arizona.“Aguamiel: secrets of the agave :: on water.” A media presentation at the Transformative Digital Humanities Conference with Jamie A. Lee, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland / Tucson, Arizona. “Community Action Research Collaboration at the Crossroads of Literacies and Sexualities.” With Sarah J. Gonzales. International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland. “Queer/ed Re/Mixings and Relational Literacies as Embodied Rhetorics and Coalitional Gestures.” With Jenna Vinson and Londie Martin. International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference. Dublin, Ireland. aguamiel: secrets of the agave ON WATER, multimedia presentation with Jamie A. Lee (co-director), Arts & Environment Cinematic Lunch, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
• Licona, A. C. (2015, June). Community Action Research Collaboration at the Crossroads of Literacies and Sexualities. International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference / literacies and sexualities in cultural, fictional, real, and virtual worlds: past, present, future perfect?. Dublin, Ireland: International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society - IASSCS.
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  Gonzales, Sara, Licona, Adela C. Licona, Martin, Londie, T., Russell, Stephen T., and Jenna Vinson, “Community Action Research Collaboration at the Crossroads of Literacies and Sexualities” International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference. Dublin, Ireland. June 2015.
• Licona, A. C. (2015, June). “Queer/ed Re/Mixings and Relational Literacies as Embodied Rhetorics and Coalitional Gestures”. IASSCS: literacies and sexualities in cultural, fictional, real, and virtual worlds: past, present, future perfect?. Dublin, Ireland: International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society - IASSCS.
• Licona, A. C. (2015, Summer/Fall/Spring/Winter). 2015 Presentations. Conferences for 2015.
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  2015 “Panic-Inflected Imaginaries: A Focus on the Rhetorical Force & Function of the Non-Image.” Panel on Trans/National Imaginaries: Panics, Distortions, and Dispossessions with Eithne Luibheid, Sara McKinnon. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.“#Coalition: Examining the Tensions between Coalitional Gestures and Appropriation.” Roundtable Discussion of Feminist Scholarship on Coalition, with Karma Chávez, Kimberlee Pérez, Ana Milena Ribero, National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Moderator, Panel on Archives of Queer and Trans Chicana/o Latina/o Desire with Frank Galarte, Cristina Serna, and Eddy Alvarez. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.“Feeling Photography: Revisioning Ecological Violences and Cultural Erasures.” Panel on Craft as Material Practice in Borderlands Quilts, Paper Art, and Photography with Marissa Juárez and Sonia Arellano. Feminisms and Rhetorics, Phoenix, Arizona.“Aguamiel: secrets of the agave :: on water.” A media presentation at the Transformative Digital Humanities Conference with Jamie A. Lee, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland / Tucson, Arizona. “Community Action Research Collaboration at the Crossroads of Literacies and Sexualities.” With Sarah J. Gonzales. International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland. “Queer/ed Re/Mixings and Relational Literacies as Embodied Rhetorics and Coalitional Gestures.” With Jenna Vinson and Londie Martin. International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference. Dublin, Ireland.
• Licona, A. C. (2015, Summer/Fall/Spring/Winter). Scholarly Presentations for 2015. International, National, Regional, Local. International, National, Regional, Local.
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  Invited Presentations2015 aguamiel: secrets of the agave ON WATER, multimedia presentation with Jamie A. Lee (co-director), Arts & Environment Cinematic Lunch, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.Conference Presentations2015 “Panic-Inflected Imaginaries: A Focus on the Rhetorical Force & Function of the Non-Image.” Panel on Trans/National Imaginaries: Panics, Distortions, and Dispossessions with Eithne Luibheid, Sara McKinnon. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.“#Coalition: Examining the Tensions between Coalitional Gestures and Appropriation.” Roundtable Discussion of Feminist Scholarship on Coalition, with Karma Chávez, Kimberlee Pérez, Ana Milena Ribero, National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Moderator, Panel on Archives of Queer and Trans Chicana/o Latina/o Desire with Frank Galarte, Cristina Serna, and Eddy Alvarez. National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.“Feeling Photography: Revisioning Ecological Violences and Cultural Erasures.” Panel on Craft as Material Practice in Borderlands Quilts, Paper Art, and Photography with Marissa Juárez and Sonia Arellano. Feminisms and Rhetorics, Phoenix, Arizona.“Aguamiel: secrets of the agave :: on water.” A media presentation at the Transformative Digital Humanities Conference with Jamie A. Lee, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland / Tucson, Arizona. “Community Action Research Collaboration at the Crossroads of Literacies and Sexualities.” With Sarah J. Gonzales. International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland. “Queer/ed Re/Mixings and Relational Literacies as Embodied Rhetorics and Coalitional Gestures.” With Jenna Vinson and Londie Martin. International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference. Dublin, Ireland.
• Licona, A. C. (2014, March). Tucson Festival of Books. “Borderlands Productions, Queer Migrations, and Counter Movements". Tucson, AZ.
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  On behalf of the Pima County Public Library’s Nuestras Raíces Committee I would like to invite you to the sixth annual Tucson Festival of Books, which will be held on Saturday, March 15, and Sunday, March 16, 2014 on the beautiful University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Arizona. We would love to have you present together on a panel on your latest books! Please see attached letter invitation. Sincerely, Elizabeth Soltero, Nuestras Raíces CommitteePima County Public Library - Southwest Branch4350 E 22nd StreetTucson, AZ 85711(520) 594-5288
• Licona, A. C. (2014, May). Coalitional Gestures in Third Space: Re/Mixed Embodied Rhetorics, Mestizaje, y Movimiento. Rhetoric Society of America, RSA. San Antonio, TX: Rhetoric Society of America, RSA.
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  Coalitional Gestures in Third Space: Re/Mixed Embodied Rhetorics, Mestizaje, y, MovimientoQueer/ed Relational Re/Mixings as Embodied Rhetorics and Coalitional Gestures Adela C. Licona, University of Arizona“I Defy George Bush to Prevent Me from Returning Home”: The HIV Immigration Ban and the Coalitional Rhetoric of Tomás FabregasKarma R. Chávez, University of WisconsinCapoeira and Coalition: Third Space Movement, Practice, Performance Marissa M. Juárez, Central New Mexico Community CollegeBorderlands as a Structure of Feeling: The Affective Politics of Queer Latin@ Activists and ArtistsNatalie A. Martinez, Bellevue College
• Licona, A. C. (2014, May). Invited, Featured Dialogue: Coalitional Gestures, Third Spaces, & Rhetorical Imaginaries: A Dialogue in Queer Chican@ Feminism. Rhetoric Society of America, RSA. San Antonio, TX: Rhetoric Society of America, RSA.
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  Featured, invited:Karma Chávez and Adela C. Licona In Conversation:Coalitional Gestures, Third Spaces, and Rhetorical Imaginaries: A Dialogue in Queer Chican@ FeminismKarma Chávez, University of Wisconsin Adela C. Licona, University of Arizona
• Licona, A. C. (2014, October). Facilitator for “None on Record,” Conference Discussion. Queer Migration: Homeland Insecurities, Violence, and Belonging Conference, University of Arizona.
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  Facilitator for “None on Record,” Conference DiscussionInvitation follows:Dear Adela,Thanks so much for being willing to help generate a discussion about the None on Record site if we’re not able to contact Selly. That’s incredibly kind of you to take on when you have more than enough things to do right now! Selly is scheduled for Friday AM, 10-11:30, on October 31st, and is supposed to call in from Mombassa. We’ll try to make it work, but realistically, there are quite a few things that could go wrong. Since there will be an audience there, though, it would be great to engage them in thinking about the None on Record project: why it’s important, the challenges (and really, how/we should support work like this).Here’s the link to the main webpage: http://noneonrecord.com/blog/?page_id=45 This link directly explains who they are, and what’s their inspiration.They have a blog, with 3 narratives: 2 on the murder of David Kato in Uganda, by Nick Mwaluko, and 1 on Who I Am, who I’m Not, by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene. (Bios of the 2 authors are provided.)They also have a tab for interviews. If you select that, it shows 4 pages of interviews, but in fact, there are less (a total of 6 interviews). Page 4 under that tab is a trailer for the None on Record site (audio only, 4 minutes, 13 seconds)—might be worth playing. Page 3 is “coming soon.” Page 2 has 2 stories on seeking asylum—which in some ways seemed like a logical choice for talking about at the QM conference—but then, not focusing on them, and instead addressing 1-2 of the interviews on page 1 (there are 4 total) offers interesting possibilities for expanding and refashioning the rubric of queer migration, which would also be great.All of this is to say, I thought about whether to request that you take a specific approach/focus on particular materials. That could maybe reduce the work you had to do. But although I want to do whatever possible to minimize your work, I think you should decide what we focus on, and take the conversation wherever you think makes sense. You’re super at this, and you should run in whatever direction excites you. Eithne
• Licona, A. C. (2014, October). Let's Talk About Sex Ed. Let's Talk About Sex Ed.
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  Organized as Co-Director of the Crossroads Collaborative with other members of Crossroads Collaborative. A community event with youth, elected officials, community members, scholars, graduate students. 100+ people. Invitation follows (accompanying flier attached):You are invited to a community event hosted by the University of Arizona's Frances McClelland Institute of Children, Youth & Families, the Graduate Program in Rhetoric, Composition, and Teaching of English's Crossroads Collaborative in partnership with the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, SIROW, and Planned Parenthood Arizona.The event will premiere the youth-produced video Let’s Talk about Sex Ed, and its corresponding study and activities guide. It will also feature poets from Tucson Youth Poetry Slam, and guest speakers from the U of A and Planned Parenthood to be followed by a catered reception. Several youth-focused agencies will have tables at the event with information about their services. There is no charge to attend. Details:Let’s Talk about Sex Ed EventWednesday, October 22, 20145:30 pm-7:30 pmYWCA – 525 N. Bonita Ave, Tucson, 85745Adela C. LiconaAssociate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English Co-Director, Crossroads CollaborativeUniversity of Arizona
• Licona, A. C. (2014, October). Responsivity: Defining, Encouraging, Enacting. Invited, Featured Speaker: Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky.. Louisville, Kentucky..
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  Invited featured speaker, “Responsivity: Defining, Encouraging, Enacting,” Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky.

Creative Productions

• Licona, A. C. (2017. SENSORIA_Quarterly Issue 1. Art Exhibit at the GLBT History Museum of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA.
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  Licona, Adela C., and Joanna Sanchez-Avila. SENSORIA Quarterly, Issue 1. Invited multimodal project for OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer, an exhibition, publication, series of events, and website, Fall 2017, celebrating the 30th anniversary of OUT/LOOK National Lesbian & Gay Quarterly at San Francisco, CA GLBT Historical Society.Sanchez-Avila and Licona’s response imagines what an issue of Out/Look might look like today, almost 30 years later. They worked through sound- and visual-scapes to create imagined content titles for a multimodal publication that reflects what they believe is relevant for today's intersectional politics that transcend and transgress borders and boundaries and insist on multiplicities of bodies, people, places, languages, knowledges, and histories.
• Licona, A. C. (2015. A Swarm of Vitalities / A Swarm of Affinities. Experimental video. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition. http://peitho.cwshrc.org/relational-literacies-and-their-coalitional-possibilities-2/
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  Licona, Adela C. and Karma Chávez. A Swarm of Vitalities / A Swarm of Affinities. Experimental video. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition 18.1 (2015).
• Licona, A. C. (2014. Cover Image for There are No Small Moments (Chap Book). Chap Book: The Rasp and the Wine. Edmonton, Canada. http://store.raspandwine.com/product/there-are-no-small-moments
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  A photo from my portfolio was selected as the cover image for "There are No Small Moments," a chap book by Stephen Berg.

Case Studies

• Licona, A. C. (2014. Gender NonConforming Youth: Gender Disparities, School Push Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline(pp 1 - 7).
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  Based on collaborative research conducted through the Ford Foundation-funded research collaborative I co-direct, this research brief circulated nationally including on MTV and through through "The Advocate."
• Licona, A. C. (2014. LGBTQ Youth of Color: Gender Disparities, School Push Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline(pp 1-9).
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  Based on collaborative research conducted through the Ford Foundation-funded research collaborative I co-direct, this research brief circulated nationally including on MTV and through through "The Advocate."See:http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/10/10/op-ed-push-back-school-pushout-lgbt-youthandhttp://act.mtv.com/posts/two-groundbreaking-briefs-look-at-how-lgbt-youth-are-treated-in-school/

Other Teaching Materials

• Licona, A. C. (2014. Let’s Talk about Sex Ed: Study & Activities Guide. Crossroads Collaborative.
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  This study guide / research brief is based on several years of research in the Ford Foundation-funded research collaborative I co-direct, the Crossroads Collaborative. I co-designed our series of research briefs and study guides for ciruclation in and beyond the academy.This one was released at a public gathering we organized at the YWCA with over 100 people (including elected officials, teachers, and youth)

Others

• Licona, A. C. (2017, ?). Editorial Introduction Invited, Co-Written for The Best of Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals, 2015.. Parlor Press.
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  Romeo Garcia, Adela C. Licona, and Kate Navickas, eds. (2016). Introduction. The Best of Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals, 2015. Parlor Press.
• Licona, A. C. (2016, November/December). Institute for LGBT Studies Solidarity Statement. Circulated via the Institute newsletter and website; circulated on social media. https://www.lgbt.arizona.edu/friends-in-solidarity
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  Co-written with and signed by Members of the UA Institute for LGBT StudiesFaculty Advisory Committee:Ana CornideFrancisco J. GalarteAdam GearyMiranda JosephJamie A. LeeEithne LuibhéidAdela C. LiconaV Spike PetersonSusan StrykerThis statement was broadly circulated and gathered almost 300 signatures.
• Licona, A. C. (2016, spring/fall). “HB 2281: Key Points, Political Implication, and Local Mobilizations.”. Encyclopedia of Latino/as in Politics, Social Movements, and Law. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena González. Vol. 2. Oxford University Press..
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  Licona, Adela C., and Sandra K. Soto (2016). “HB 2281: Key Points, Political Implication, and Local Mobilizations.” Encyclopedia of Latino/as in Politics, Social Movements, and Law. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena González. Vol. 2. Oxford University Press.
• Licona, A. C. (2016, spring/fall). “Sexual Minorities.”. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell..
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  Licona, Adela C., and Ryan J. Watson. (2016). “Sexual Minorities.” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.