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.
• 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

• 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".