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I had always thought that among my endless number of relatives I had the only queer story to tell. No matter about the one in ten statistic for lesbians and gay men (homosexuals make up at least 10 percent of the population), I could not even imagine there was another lesbiana in our family until the
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Cruz developed the concept of an "epistemology of a brown body" which acknowledges the multiple and often oppositional intersections of sociopolitical locations that the brown body appropriates and negotiates. "For the educational researcher, understanding the brown body and the regulation of its
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movements is fundamental in the reclamation of narrative and the development of radical projects of transformation and liberation." In her article "Toward an
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youth communities, violence and youth, problems in testimonio methods, and the school-to-prison pipeline. She is also interested in decolonial feminist theory, community-based learning, race and schooling, and U.S. Third World feminism.
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