CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the AMAE Journal
Muxerista Pedagogies: Art, Activism, and Scholarship as Resistance and Restoration

Guest Editors: Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla (California State University, Los Angeles)

                          Dr. Roberto C. Orozco (University of Minnesota)

Submission Deadline: June 16, 2025

Contact: arevill2@calstatela.edu

               orozc100@umn.edu

This special issue invites submissions that center on Muxerista pedagogies (Revilla, 2004)—
educational practices rooted in Chicana/Latina feminist activism, jotería studies, and cultural
production. We seek work that foregrounds the power of art, femtorship, testimonio, healing, spirit
restoration, and coalition-building as tools to confront and transform educational injustice, academic
spirit murder, and institutional neglect.

 

A Muxerista is a “nonbinary, gender-fluid, gender-inclusive, trans, queer, and/or sexually inclusive
Chicanx/Latinx (including people of Indigenx, African, and Asian ancestry) identity that honors our
multiple, intersecting identities and communities while uplifting our radical commitment to activism,
organizing, personal and collective liberation, and social transformation” (Revilla et al., 2022, p. 24).

Emerging from traditions of radical feminist and queer love, transformational resistance, and
intersectional struggle, Muxerista pedagogies offer liberatory pathways for reclaiming education as a
site of collective possibility. This issue aims to uplift the multidimensional stories, theories, and
praxis of educators, students, artists, and organizers who embody this work in classrooms,
campuses, and communities.

We welcome submissions in multiple forms, including:
● Empirical studies and critical ethnographies
● Participatory action research
● Essays and theoretical interventions
● Pedagogical reflections and curriculum

● Artistic expressions (poetry, visual art, performance-based work)
● Oral interviews with movement elders, educators, or artists

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

● Muxerista and Jotería pedagogies in K-12 and higher education
● Spirit restoration, mentorship, and healing justice
● Queer, trans, undocumented, and feminist student activism
● Community-based art and testimonio as pedagogical tools
● Testimonio, Muxer-storia, and intergenerational knowledge
● Reimagining education through intersectional Muxerista lenses
This issue honors the legacy of Raza Womyn de UCLA, and the ongoing labor of Chicana/Latina,
queer, and trans educators who teach, organize, and love from the margins. Together, we are
re/building spaces of belonging, liberation, and transformation.

The selection of manuscripts will be conducted as follows:

1. Manuscripts should not have been previously published in another journal, nor should they
be under consideration by another journal at the time of submission.

2. Each manuscript will be subjected to a blind review by a panel of reviewers with expertise in
the area treated by the manuscript. Those manuscripts recommended by the panel of experts
will then be considered by the AMAE Journal guest editors and editorial board, which will
make the final selections. PLEASE NOTE: For a manuscript to be accepted for review,
each contributing author (or at least one among its co-authors) must agree to review one
manuscript submitted to this special issue.

3. Manuscripts will be judged on strengths and relevance to the theme of the special issue.

Manuscripts should be submitted as follows:

1. Submit via email both a cover letter and a copy of the manuscript in Microsoft Word to Dr.
Anita Tijerina Revilla at arevill2@calstatela.edu and Dr. Roberto Orozco at
orozc100@umn.edu.

2. A cover letter should include name, title, short author bio (100 words), and institutional
affiliation; indicate the type of manuscript submitted and the number of words, including
references. Also, please briefly explain how your manuscript addresses the call for papers.

3. Prepare the manuscript for anonymous peer review. Authors should make every effort to
ensure that the manuscript contains no clues to the author's identity. The manuscript should
not include the author's name, institutional affiliation, contact information, or
acknowledgments. (This information, however, should be included in the cover letter at the
time of submission.)

4. Manuscripts should be no longer than 6,000 words (including references) and have an
abstract of 200 words or less. Please follow the standard format of the American
Psychological Association (APA 7th Edition). Include all illustrations, charts, and graphs
within the text. Manuscripts may also be submitted in Spanish.