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What Does It Mean to Build an Online Journal for Scholars, Not Just by Scholars?

May 2, 2026Rafael “Rafa” Ramírez Solórzano

Community-Driven Diamond Open Access Publishing in Practice. Latinx Talk was selected as one of the journals in this year’s Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program

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Book Review: Lorgia García Peña, Community as Rebellion

April 26, 2026Delia Fernández-Jones

Now more than ever, we need Lorgia Garcia Peña’s Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color (Haymarket Books, 2022).

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Call for Papers – Loss and Liberation: Latinx Studies and the Question of Palestine

April 15, 2026Karma R. Chávez and Sara Awartani

NEW due date: May 11, 2026 Across our communities–activist and academic alike–the past two years drew into sharp relief the relationships between Latines and the

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“A Creature of Darkness and a Creature of Light”: A Conversation on Latinx Environmentalisms

April 12, 2026David J. Vázquez and Carlos Alonso Nugent

A conversation on Latinx environmentalisms with Carlos Alonso Nugent and David J. Vázquez Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate Justice and Speculative Futures in Latinx Cultural Production by

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Student reflections on Bad Bunny at the 2026 ¡Super Tazón!

March 5, 2026Ashlanda Bannerman, Anna Gayton, Seneca Farhy, Allyson Bartek, Isabella Capito, Imogen Buck and Mark D Naison

Introduction By Dr. Mark D Naison These Reflections on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show were written for a course at Fordham University (Bronx, NY)

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The Trump, Venezuela, Dominican Connection: What’s at Stake for Latinos

March 3, 2026Alexa Rodríguez

As people familiar with U.S. policy in Latin America have noted, the January 3rd U.S. military strike on Venezuela and the subsequent kidnapping of Venezuelan

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Book Review: Lee Bebout, Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice (New York University Press, 2025)

February 3, 2026David J. Vázquez

For years I have been waiting for a book that would serve as a contemporary companion to a previous generation of critical whiteness studies like

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Interview with Paola Mendoza, Artist & Activist

January 19, 2026Belinda Linn Rincón, Paola Mendoza and Angelicke Sierra

Latinx Talk Editorial Board member Belinda Linn Rincon, along with student Angelicke Sierra, interview Paola Mendoza. Mendoza is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and activist who

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