Muxerista Possibilities desde el Desierto: A Research Note from a Vegas Muxerista

Authors

  • Briceida Hernandez-Toledo University of California, Los Angeles

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24974/amae.20.2.556

Keywords:

Muxerista pedagogies, Las Vegas, Latine communities, racial geography, researcher reflexivity

Abstract

This essay reflects on my engagement with muxerista pedagogies and offers a personal account of its power and impact on my life and research. I focus on my positionality and educational journey, as well as the key interventions of femtorship, storytelling, friendship, love, and healing. I foreground my experiences growing up in Latine communities in Las Vegas, and discuss how muxerista pedagogies, and by extension, muxerista research methods and epistemologies, shape and frame my research.

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Published

2026-06-24

How to Cite

Hernandez-Toledo, B. (2026). Muxerista Possibilities desde el Desierto: A Research Note from a Vegas Muxerista. Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 20(2), 142–151. https://doi.org/10.24974/amae.20.2.556

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2026): Muxerista Pedagogies and Praxis: Art, Activism, and Scholarship as Resistance and Restoration (A Special Double Issue) Part 2

Section

REFLECTIVE ACADEMIC ESSAYS