The Lesbian Caucus returns to Alburquerque, where it was founded in 1990. These three panel sessions commemorate the importance of queer Chicanas in NACCS and in the cultural and intellectual life of Chicano/a communities.

Chicana Lesbian Reflections: 1990 Albuquerque 2004 Chicana/o Studies

Presenters: Deborah R. Vargas, University of California, Davis

Sandra Soto, University of Arizona

Deena Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University

Emma Perez, University of Colorado, Boulder

ManFloriCanto y Lengua Loca: Queer Chicana Tales and Truths

Presenters: Perez, Emma University of Colorado. “Blood Memory, or, Forgetting the Alamo” (fiction)

Wanda Alarcon, Jota 'zine, Editor. “La Llorona, E.E.U.U” (screenplay)

Carla Trujillo, University of California, Berkeley. “What Night Brings” (fiction)

Amelia de la Luz Montes, University of Nebraska. “Running Bodies Through L.A” (fiction)

Karleen Pendleton-Jimenez, York University. “Centro Clinton” (fiction)

Claudia Rodriguez, Loyola Marymount University and Tongues 'zine. “Amalia's Kitchen,” (fiction).

Catriona Rueda Esquibel, Ohio State University. Guadalupe's Daughters, Libradita's Sons (poetry)

New Frontiers: Theorizing Chicana Lesbians
Presenters: Ellie Hernandez, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Enactments: The Queer Politics of Aztlan”
Rosa Yadira O., DePaul University and Horizons Community Services/Center on Halsted. “¿Soy a Dyke y qué? A Quest for Identity and Sacred Space”

Cindy Cruz, University of California, Los Angeles. “Imagining Bodies: Fragments of a Critical Chicana Practice”
Xochitl Marquez , Loyola Marymount University. “Yo soy una Loca, Pero no soy la unica: Chicana Lesbian Theory as a medium of understanding the complexities of identity!”