Michelle Tellez

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Simmons, W., & Tellez, M. (2014). Sexual Violence against Migrant Women and Children. In Localizing Human Rights Abuses: The U.S.-Mexico Experience. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Tellez, M., Tellez, M., & Simmons, W. P. (2014). Chapter 2. Sexual Violence Against Migrant Women and Children. In Binational Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience. DE GRUYTER. doi:10.9783/9780812209983.44
• T{'e}llez, M., & Sanidad, C. (2014). ‘Giving Wings to our Dreams’: Bi-national Activism and Worker’s Rights Struggles in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region. In Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities and Globalization. NYU Press.
• Tellez, M. (2013). Transfronteriza: Gender Rights at the Border and ‘La Colectiva Feminista'. In Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age. University of Illinois Press.
• T{'e}llez, M. (2012). Generating Hope, Creating Change, Searching for Community. In Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century(pp 117--126). Palgrave Macmillan US.

Journals/Publications

• Tellez, M., Herrera, B. P., & Alvarez, M. (2021). Sometimes It’s Necessary to Break a Few Rules. Ethnic Studies Review, 44(1), 5-12. doi:10.1525/esr.2021.44.1.5
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  In October of 2020, the University of Arizona’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences hosted a lecture series called Womanpower. The final lecture was an interview between Michelle Téllez and Yalitza Aparicio—an Indigenous woman, actress, and activist. This interview transcript (originally conducted in Spanish) discusses Aparicio’s childhood, her experiences with discrimination, her role in the groundbreaking film Roma, and her activism on behalf of domestic workers and Indigenous peoples. In this interview, Téllez highlights issues of Indigenous rights, recognizing how Aparicio’s platform can bring visibility to the O’odham land defenders fighting for their sacred lands today, but also to Indigenous peoples fighting for their territories in Mexico, as alluded to in Roma. Téllez wanted to recognize the power that is ever-present in the bodies and minds of women workers who create possibilities despite their circumstances, and who maneuver between space and place, languages and cultures as they center homes, both their own and others. She points us to Aparicio’s role as a domestic worker to remind us of the silent but ever-present power of women. Téllez connects the interview with her own research and personal experiences growing up along the U.S./Mexico border in the cities of San Diego/Tijuana – where she was witness to the racial, gendered, and classed dynamics of power and exclusion.
• Behl, N., Tellez, M., Stancliff, M., & Fuse, M. (2018). Writing the Intersections: Feminist Autoethnography as Narrative Collaboration.. Journal of Narrative Politics, 5, pp. 30-44..
• Gomez, A. E., & Tellez, M. (2018). The Mexican Student Movement of 1968: A Remembrance With ‘La Nacha’. Latino Rebels.
• Tellez, M. (2018). Border Crossings and the Legacy of Sexual Conquest in the Age of Neoliberalism in the Sonoran Desert. International Journal of Feminist Politics, 20(4), 524-541.
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  This article examines the liminal space of the desert borderlands as a scene of routinized sexualized and gendered violence against migrant women border crossers. We explore the human consequences of a philosophy of attrition that is the cornerstone of the US immigration system. Using border sexual conquest and the coloniality of power as lenses, we examine how global neoliberalism represents a form of contemporary conquest that normalizes sexual and gendered violence at transnational locations.
• Caballero, C., Martinez-Vu, Y., Tellez, M., Torres-Perez, J., & Vega, C. (2016). Our labor is our prayer, our Mothering is our offering: A Chicana M(other)work Framework for Collective Resistance. Chicana/Latina Studies.
• Tellez, M., & Magana, M. R. (2017). Trump’s Border (In)securities. Australian Outlook of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
• Tellez, M., & Romero, A. J. (2017). Lessons from Ethnic Studies on Strategic Courage. Mujeres Talk Blog. https://library.osu.edu/blogs/mujerestalk/2017/01/10/ethnic-studies-in-2017/ (invited). Mujeres Talk - now Latinx TAlk. doi:https://library.osu.edu/blogs/mujerestalk/2017/01/10/ethnic-studies-in-2017/
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  This was an invited contribution to an on-line publication for interdisciplinary work. It was invited and peer -reviewedRC1
• Tellez, M. (2016). A Reflection and Conversation on the Migrant Rights Movement. Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order., 42(3-4), 200--222.
• Simmons, W., Menj{'i}var, C., & T{'e}llez, M. (2015). Violence and Vulnerability of Migrants in Drop Houses in Arizona: The Predictable Outcome of a Chain Reaction of Violence.. Violence Against Women.
• TELLEZ, M. (2013). Gender Rights at the Border and La Colectiva Feminista Binacional. Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age, 232.
• T{'e}llez, M. (2013). A Woman's Right to Organize: An Interview with Members of the Colectiva Feminista Binacional. Aztl{'a}n: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 38(1), 205--220.
• T{'e}llez, M. (2013). Lectures, Evaluations, and Diapers: Navigating the Terrains of Chicana Single Motherhood in the Academy. Feminist Formations, 25(3), 79--97.
• T{'e}llez, M. (2012). Community ofStruggle. Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border, 190.
• T{'e}llez, M., Sanidad, C., & De La Fuente, N. (2011). Immigration and the state of labor: Building a movement in the Valley of the Sun. Latino Studies, 9(1), 145.
• T{'e}llez, M. (2008). Community of struggle: gender, violence, and resistance on the US/Mexico border. Gender & Society, 22(5), 545--567.
• T{'e}llez, M. (2006). Generating hope, creating change, searching for community: Stories of resistance against globalization at the US-M{'e}xico border. Reinventing critical pedagogy: Widening the circle of anti-oppression education, 225--34.
• T{'e}llez, M. (2005). Doing research at the borderlands: Notes from a Chicana feminist ethnographer. Chicana/Latina Studies, 46--70.

Presentations

• Magana, M. R., Tellez, M., Baca, D. P., & Wilkinson-Lee, A. M. (2021, April). A Conversation with Mexican American Studies Faculty. The University of Arizona: Centering Servingness, Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Webinar Series. Virtual webinar: University of Arizona: Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives.
• Tellez, M. (2021). UCSB: Feminist Futures - Plenary Speaker. Care Across Generations Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Mother Work: Communities of Care.
• Tellez, M. (2020, Fall). Keynote for Hispanic Heritage Month. Mohave College.
• Tellez, M. (2018, May). Keynote Address: Chicana Power: Scholar-Activist Genealogies and Academic Disruptions. Visions of Justice and Liberation Symposium at UCLA. Los Angeles, CA.
• Tellez, M. (2017, September). Dismantling Borders, Recovering Humanity. Surprise Youth Council Presentation. University of Arizona.
• Tellez, M. (2016, July). Chicana M(other)work: Radical Disruptions Within and Beyond the Academy.. Latina/o Studies Association Conference.
• Tellez, M. (2016, November). Diversity as Backlash: Connecting Struggles from the "Frontlines" in a Time of Neoliberal Rule. American Studies Association Conference.

Others

• Tellez, M., & Gallery, R. E. (2018, August). UA must do more to help immigrant, DACA students. Arizona Daily Star. https://tucson.com/opinion/local/michelle-t-llez-rachel-gallery-ua-must-do-more-to/article_c5dbfdfd-88fa-50ff-8cc2-791969a3b1ab.html
• Tellez, M., & Ramirez, A. (2018, January). How Artists Can Shape Understanding of the U.S.-Mexico Border.. Latino USA. http://latinousa.org/2018/01/18/artists-can-shape-understanding-u-s-mexico-border/
• Magana, M. R., & Tellez, M. (2017, March). A Climate of Hate: How Border Militarization Is Getting Deadlier. Truthout. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39981-a-climate-of-hate-how-border-militarization-is-getting-deadlier
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  Editor-reviewed analysis for online news site Truthout
• Tellez, M. (2017, March). "Beyond the Wall". Gender Policy Report. http://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/beyond-the-wall/
• Tellez, M. (2017, November). "Why Family Ties Matter in U.S. Immigration Policy". http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/family-ties-matter-u-s-immigration-policy/. http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/family-ties-matter-u-s-immigration-policy/
• Magana, M. R., & Tellez, M. (2016, December). The U.S-Mexico Borderlands. Australian Outlook of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australian_outlook/the-us-mexico-borderlands/
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  Invited blog post
• T{'e}llez, M. (2005). Globalizing Reisitance: Maclovio Rojas, a Mexican Community" en Lucha".