Reading of Frontera Madre(hood)
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
5:30 PM
The Bleachers at Devasthali Hall

Professors Dr. Cynthia Bejarano and Dr. Maria Cristina Morales read a chapter of their book, Frontera Madre(hood) followed by a discussion and audience Q& A.

Thirty contributors discuss their lived experiences, research, or community work challenging multiple layers of oppression, including militarization of the border, border security propaganda, feminicides, drug war and colonial violence, grieving and loss of a child, challenges and forms of resistance by Indigenous mothers, working mothers in maquiladoras, queer mothering, academia and motherhood, and institutional barriers by government systems to access affordable health care and environmental justice. Fronter Madre(hood) encapsulates how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies.