Call for Ofrendas

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Call for Ofrendas Michelle Habell-Pallán (bio) Collective Ofrenda Practices: Remembering Our Beloved Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez Please contribute your cherished memories of Betita to a digital ofrenda that will be shared on https://elizabethbetitamartinez.squarespace.com. Our digital ofrenda for our beloved Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez follows the communal ofrenda tradition. We invite all to contribute your own heartfelt ofrenda to our online altar composed in honor of Betita's extraordinary life. Please email an image of your ofrenda to infobetitamartínez@gmail.com so that we can upload it to https://elizabethbetitamartinez.squarespace.com. East Los Angeles Altarista Elder Ofelia Esparza has taught us that an ofrenda can be in many forms as long as it is given from the heart. It can be in the form of an altar, a song, a poem, a podcast, a dance, a meal, the sharing of a memory or whatever moves you. There are no hard and set rules for ofrenda making as long as it is heartfelt. We provide resources here, but please do not feel constrained by them. [End Page 1051] Michelle Habell-Pallán Michelle Habell-Pallán Michelle Habell-Pallán is professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Washington. She directs the Certificate for Public Critical Race Scholarship and codirects Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities Oral History Archive. She is the author of American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music (University of Washington Press, 2017) and "'Girl in a Coma' Tweets Chicanafuturism: Decolonial Visions, Social Media, and Archivista Praxis" (2017) and received the Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public and the 2021 UW Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities. Copyright © 2022 The American Studies Association