Reclaiming Our Cycles (Full Course)

As Las Doctoras we created this platform to bring much of the information we teach in our university classes to a wider audience. When dicussing the material we cover in our classes with friends and other people who cross our path, the most common reaction we get is "I would love to sit in on your class." And so we thought why not bring our classes to you! We are both PhD's who worked for many years researching, learning, writing, and teaching about topics and issues ranging from race, gender, spriturality, social movements, literature, and much much more.We hope this platform can serve as an innovative way to share all that we have learned in our academic journeys with those who also want to learn about these topics.

We are also very much invested in using this platform to share our educational knowledge with others as a means to empower others to participate in creating the possibilites of change that is so neccesary in our world. As feminists, as women of color, as Latinas, our ultimate hope is that through this work we can contribute to the dismantaling of white supremacist, capitalist, cisheteropatriarchy. In other words, our intention is to empower ourselves and others to work toward ending all forms of oppression.

To learn more about us as individuals, our bios are as follows.

Xicana-Feminista-Mama-Academic-Writer-Social Justice Advocate

I was born in L.A. and raised in Pico Rivera, Ca. I received my PhD from UC Riverside in 2017 in Ethnic Studies. I am a proud Xicana, daughter and granddaughter of Mexican immigrants with deep roots in my culture and love for my people. My work both inside and outside of academia is grounded in an intersectional feminist perspective centering the experience of women of color as well as sexual and gender minorities of color. I currently work as a professor in the field of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at several universities and colleges in the L.A. area. I am passionate about living a holistic lifestyle including the way I parent my children, the way I interact with others, my relationship to the earth and the environment, my relationship to my health and my body, and my commitment to spiritual growth. I am not always great at this but I do my best. When I am not working or making plans to dismantle patriarchy, I enjoy spending time with my husband and two children at home in Long Beach, Ca.

Dr. Cristina Rose

QWOC Feminista-Artivist-Pin@y-Latinx-Traveler-Farmer-Survivor.

Grand-daughter of Priscilla of New Mexico and Concepcion of Cebu, Dr. Cristina Rose was born in LA and has a PhD in Women’s Philosophy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is a member of Voices of Our Nations Art Foundation (VONA) and her most recent publications include: her artwork “Sacred Heart of Mango” appears in Jota with Korima Press and her article “Stories of Multicultural Integrative Solidarity” appears in Vibrant Voices with Goddess Ink. As a mother, an artist, a writer, and a Gender and Ethnic Studies Professor at CSU, Dominguez Hills, she is engaged with muxer-affirming and indigenous-rooted communities based out of Long Beach. Follow her work on instagram @drcristinarose and @latinamotherscollaborative as well as on her website: cristinagolondrina.com.