"Transformando the Subjectivities in our Research through a Women of Color Feminisms Approach." by Rufina Cortez, Department of Educational Policy Studies, PhD student. What is the role the researcher imparts with her informants? Women of colors scholarship, whether prose or ethnographies, whether theoretical or praxis discourse, have a particular language, a particular presentation, a different way of interrogating ethics, location, responsibility, and representation within our areas of research. This paper proposes that by employing a women of color feminist approach we can attain more solid positionalities in our work, particularly those of us that come from historically marginalized communities. Gloria Anzaldas work suggests that we need to de-academize theory and to connect the community to the academy. Theorists of color have been in the process of formulating what Anzalda refers to as marginal theories that are simultaneously outside/inside the Western frame of reference. Of major importance is Anzaldas problematizing of what it means to be an intellectual for women of color that come from working-class backgrounds. Thus, as women of color we are in a position to give birth to new teoras (theories) embedded in social issues such as race, class, and sexual difference that allow for the creation of new categories for those of us left out from existing theories of [Western] knowledge. "Queerying La Familia: Searching for Family and Home." by Norma Marrun, Department of Educational Policy Studies, PhD student. Is home a place where we can begin to discuss issues of race, class, gender, immigration and sexuality? In the words of Cherre Moraga and Gloria Anzalda, [t]he revolution begins at home. This paper extends the work of Chicana Feminist scholars and Border theory scholars to destabilize these meanings of la familia and home. It is precisely when we disrupt terms such as la familia and home that we can begin to disrupt discourses of heteropatriarchy, motherhood, fatherhood, childhood, and how Latino families are shaped and reorganized in the U.S., as well as what it means to raise a child across borders. I examine the boundaries that are created within the home, and how they are negotiated, for instance documented and undocumented family members within the same household. Ultimately, queerying la familia and the home allows for a new radical understanding of the social and cultural norms embedded in the family structure.