Part 1: I Am From

You are the cumulative expression of all your ancestors. Remember that on the hard days.

– Ramona

• I am from the ranch: a testimonio – Judy Marquez Kiyama
• I am from, Xicana Brownilocks – Ramona Beltrán
• This is where I come from – Laura Kaye Jagles
• I am from, What’s in my Name, and Foreign Shrines – Diana Lin
• Living on the borders: Being an invisible indigenous queer adoptee – Markus McIntyre
• Subaltern schizophrenia  – Tamara MC
• She Who Peopled We, Ars Poetica – Jennifer Bartell
• Metamorphosis: Differential consciousness and cultural sacrifices – Delma Ramos