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Volume 21 Number 2 ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? Spring 2014­ A Community Based Magazine About Latinos at Ohio State • quepasa.osu.edu ¿Qué Pasa, OSU?

Los Bros Hernandez A Conversation with Beto

Miguel Villalona-Calero Martín Pérez Ani Palacios Renata Baptista Cancer Research at The James Serving the Community Una Escritora Local Latina En Educación V. Muñoz 4 A. Wiggins 9 E. Foulis 16 B. Lynner 28 Who We Are Quiénes Somos Esquina del Editor Theresa Rojas Editor Jacinda Walker Art Director Indra Leyva Editorial Consultant The Pride of Presence Victoria Muñoz, Staff Writer Anthony Wiggins Staff Writer In putting together Verónica Betancourt shares her work on Leticia Wiggins, Correspondent this issue on the Latinos and museum representation at Yolanda Zepeda Managing Director heels of our last The Smithsonian; Anthony Wiggins profiles semester’s transition Martín Pérez’s journey from tortillería to Contributors to a new format and non-profit management; and Elena Foulis Lina X. Aguirre size, I could not have introduces us to Ani Palacios, a local Maria Barbero predicted such an Columbus writer. Maria Barbero and Nic Verónica E. Betancourt Ayendy Bonifacio enthusiastic response Flores offer inside advice for graduate Doug Bush from the OSU school; Doug Bush shares his work on Mauricio Espinoza community. I heard Latinidad and marking Latino characters in Nic Flores Elena Foulis from those excited soap operas; and Sonia BasSheva Manjon Francisco X. Gómez-Bellengé to read the new launches The Barnett Center for Integrated Brittany Lynner publication and even more enthusiastically Arts and Enterprise. We also showcase Sonia BasSheva Manjon Paloma Martinez-Cruz from those hoping to submit material. As poetry by Ayendy Bonifacio, Mauricio Amanda L. Matousek you can see here, many people were Espinoza, and Dr. Lina X. Aguirre. Tamra Pace moved to contribute to the ¿Qué Pasa? Ani Palacios spring issue. As if by popular mandate, we This issue features two excerpted Annalisa Perez interviews: Director Alex Rivera, and comics Brena Yu-Chen Tai received a wealth of stories profiling the Joey Terrill endeavors of Latinos and the storyteller and artist Gilbert Hernandez. OSU community. Rivera, whose dystopian science-fiction film The Office of Diversity and Inclusion Sleep Dealer (2008) will be re-released publishes ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? each autumn and spring semester. With the largest issue of my tenure, we’ve this May, visited OSU to share his thought- made further changes to the text and cover provoking work on the US-Mexico border. ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? is produced weight as we continue to grow and improve Hernandez, one of the creators of the in collaboration with the Hispanic Oversight Committee. the overall presence of our magazine. Love and Rockets comic series, along with No small thanks goes to our steadfast Art brother Jaime Hernandez was in town for The Ohio State University is not Director, Jacinda Walker for her eye on the Festival of Cartoon Art celebrating the responsible for the content and views of cultivating an award-winning publication. opening of the new Billy Ireland Cartoon this publication. The publication does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions Library and Museum. The Brothers, fondly of the staff. All submissions for publications We warmly welcome our new staff writer known as Los Bros, were keynote speakers must include contact name and phone Victoria Muñoz, a PhD candidate from for the event. Their generosity, candor, and number or e-mail address. ¿Qué Pasa, the Department of English. Readers will OSU? reserves the right to refuse any ease in conversation with me made the submission for publication. recognize Victoria from the cover of our interviews in this issue possible. autumn 2013 issue. We also welcome For questions and inquiries, please contact correspondent Leticia Wiggins who is A personal thank you to everyone who [email protected]. spearheading the new Via Brasil series, in agreed to be interviewed as well as to Note: We use the term “Latinos” to cooperation with The Wexner Center for those who took the time to contribute. The represent both Latino and Latina. the Arts. publication reflects not only a diverse range of work and interests across The Ohio Photos for each piece are provided In this issue you’ll find sketches highlighting by the author or interviewee unless State University, but also our community’s otherwise noted. Additional photo credits a diverse landscape by and about Latinos. investment in prominence. Latinos are for this issue: Fantagraphics Books, Bruce Among other stories, Victoria Muñoz working on the most compelling, cutting- L. Heflin, Indra Leyva, Harlee McBride, profiles Dr. Miguel Villalona-Calero’s work Alyssa Neumann, Prospect Park, Theresa edge, and expansive work anywhere. What Rojas, Carlos Sosa, the Sosa Group, with the James Cancer Care and Treatment follows is but a small selection of that labor. Anthony Wiggins, Jennifer Wray, The Program, and Felipe Castelblanco’s work Wexner Center for the Arts, and World as media artist, educator, and activist. Her Circuit Records. piece on trans-culturation in music features the Buena Vista Social Club. Con amor, Theresa Rojas Editor Inside This Issue...

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17 30 The Barnett Center Jenni Rivera

18 A Conversation with Gilbert

14 Via Brasil

13 Latinos One Life to Live

29 Felipe Castelblanco

7 21 Sosa: Buena Vista Supply Chains

89 Subject/Headline Dr. Miguel Villalona-Calero James Cancer Care and Treatment Program

By Victoria Muñoz, PhD Candidate, Department of English

VM: Describe your For example, there is a type of leukemia called chronic experience at OSU. myeloid leukemia (CML). We used to tell patients… MC: I came to OSU [as that you have a time bomb inside you which at some an Assistant Professor] point will explode. You will go into what we call blast in April 1999. The James phase and you will die…Researchers discovered that and university as a CML was caused by the fusion of two genes that live whole provided a great in chromosomes 9 and 22, which fuse together and environment for me to produce a protein that drives the cancer. So, they grow... In 2002 I got [developed] a medicine called Gleevec that would block tenure and became an that. Most patients go into remission...When Gleevec was Associate Professor and being developed I went to the Dominican Republic…a Full Professor in 2007. In friend of a friend, a surgeon, had a daughter who was 2010, I was offered the diagnosed with CML. I handed him the abstract on the job of division director. My study of Gleevec and he managed to get his daughter seats at the Horseshoe are getting better. I wear several into a clinical trial in Guatemala and she went into hats, including the hat of administrator to make sure the complete remission…So advances like that are really division will be financially sound, that we grow, and that smart targeting. For lung cancer we now have a have a young talents are developed. This year, we recruited 24 few genes like EGFR [epidermal growth factor receptor]… faculty members to the Medical Oncology Division. and ALK gene that we can go after. We have two approved drugs for that. VM: Why did you study medicine? MC: I had a role model: my pediatrician, Doctor Ariza…My VM: Describe your recent article on ethnicity in mom would tell me stories about how during our civil war cancer research. [Dominican Republic, 1965], he was able to pay a home MC: Most new treatments in the U.S. and Europe are visit in the middle of the bullets because my brother and tested predominately in whites…So, when a drug gets I were sick…I chose lung cancer after [my fellowship] in approved, we don’t know how people from certain San Antonio…This cancer was very challenging…It’s an ethnicities will react in terms of good benefits and epidemic and the number 1 killer of men and women. toxicities. Although there are commonalities among We have a number of patients who never smoked different ethnicities…some side effects are more or smoked lightly. I have a lot of patients that have a common in some people compared to others and genetic abnormality. Smoking is still the top cause, but certain enzymes that contribute to elimination of the there are other factors. drug by the liver or kidney may be distributed unequally among different ethnicities. The article [surveys our VM: Describe your research. current knowledge of] toxicities and metabolism of MC: My field is really drug development—new anticancer certain anti-cancer agents among certain ethnicities, and agents. We call it early therapeutics, but it’s really late the different prevalence and mortality of certain cancers therapeutics because it’s when other things have failed. among ethnicities. I have a contract with the National Cancer Institute to do Phase II trials with new agents. This a consortium we VM: Tell me about your AAAS fellowship [See page 23]. lead in cooperation with Cleveland Clinic, Case Western MC: Real progress [involves] people of different fields Reserve, Georgetown University in Washington, and communicating. For example, a relevant quote at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. The patients AAAS meeting was, “the physicists gave the electrons I see have lung cancer, but [my field] is the translation to the engineers and they created the IT revolution; of new discoveries that can be applied to any cancer. biologists have given engineers the genes, and they We tend to think of translational research as scientists will construct the future.” I was recognized in the bringing discoveries to patients, but a lot of times the pharmaceutical sciences arena because of my efforts patients give us the answer and so we bring it back to regarding clinical trials with new agents in patients...What the lab and test. is really important is that there are no frontiers anymore, so the new discoveries really expand rapidly globally... VM: How do you develop new cancer treatments? We have the opportunity and privilege to work on these MC: The revolution with new technology is to…come up things, and we hope that whatever we do here will be for with a treatment to block what is driving the cancer. the benefit of humankind.

4 quepasa.osu.edu Latinos and Museums Representation At The Smithsonian

By Verónica E. Betancourt, PhD Student, Arts Administration, Education, and Policy

The start of my journey to museum uate fellows from around the world take Latino, Congress has yet to approve camp was a government report from part in a two-week intensive seminar funding for a Smithsonian museum 20 years ago. In 1994, Willful Neglect: about Latino museum studies, followed dedicated to Latino history and by a month-long practicum within part culture, leaving the Institution and of the Smithsonian Institution or the the city without a museum focused National Trust for Historic Preservation. on the Latino experience in the U.S. In each placement, the fellow works to This absence guided much of our expand the research, presentation, and discussion throughout the six-week engagement of Latino subject matter program, as well as our work in our and audiences. practicum placements at different Smithsonian museums and centers. Although we fondly called it museum For my practicum, I worked for Taína camp, LMSP was a rigorous and intense Caragol, the recently hired Curator for experience. The first week featured Latino Art and History at the National seminars with Tomás Ybarra-Frausto Portrait Gallery to develop and propose and Gilberto Cárdenas on Latino art education and public programs in and collecting; a roundtable lunch on support of the 2014 Portraiture Now ethnic-specific museums with directors exhibition featuring Latino artists. of Smithsonian museums and centers, and the Undersecretary for History, As the only institution to send two Art, and Culture; and a discussion scholars to the 2013 program, Ohio of community collaboration and the State was well represented at LMSP. Smithsonian Folklife Festival. By the Delia Fernandez, a PhD candidate second week, in History and I strongly encourage we had discussed other graduate Buckeyes interested in the politics of Latino Studies to apply to the program. mounting the We not only made a broad range of first survey of connections across the Smithsonian Latino art at the and were able to consider the politics Smithsonian of Latino representation within an American Art institution that aims to tell the nation’s Museum with story, but also work within these the curator of politics in our practicum placements. the show; heard Since the Smithsonian supports a from the director wide range of disciplines, graduate and senior staff fellows from History, Anthropology, of the Anacostia Ethnomusicology, Painting, Art History, The Smithsonian Institution and U.S. Community Museum about what it Visitor Studies, and Art Education Latinos–a report by the Smithsonian means to be a community museum all found a place within the program Institution Task Force on Latino Issues– under the administrative umbrella of and were able to expand their work indicted the institution for its systemic the Smithsonian; and considered the to engage with issues of public underrepresentation of Latino culture ethical concerns inherent in exhibiting scholarship and material culture. and history in its programs and exhi- difficult objects, such as the abandoned bitions, and of Latinos among its staff. possessions of migrants at the border, This warranted criticism led the Smith- within a museum. We were at the core For more information on the Latino sonian to found the Smithsonian Latino of Latino museum studies. Museum Studies Program visit: http:// Center (SLC) and to establish the Latino latino.si.edu/programs/programs_ Museum Studies Program (LMSP). However, we were not at the LMSP.htm LMSP is an annual six-week program to center of Latino museums. Despite promote the growth of Latino museum lobbying efforts by Friends of the studies and professionals. Sixteen grad- National Museum of the American

Spring 5 Onda Latina Ohio

Onda Latina Ohio is a new, DIY initiative to promote Latina Martinez-Cruz, Elena Foulis, and Aurélie Vialette saw the creative visibility in Columbus. We are Latinas and allies need to build an alternative space outside the academy for united to create a safe space for emerging and established expression and experimentation. Modeling Onda Latina Ohio writers and artists to showcase both process and product on Chicago’s Proyecto Latina, where Martinez-Cruz edited and enjoy mutual encouragement. The primary focus is Rebeldes: A Proyecto Latina Anthology (Proyecto Latina, to sponsor monthly, free open mic events for Latinas and 2013), the group looks forward to celebrating Latina Ohio women of other backgrounds who promote women of color experiences, and fostering solidarity in diversity. feminist cultural production to find their voice and their audience. Associated with the Department of Spanish and For more information, contact Paloma Martinez-Cruz: Portuguese at The Ohio State University, leaders Paloma [email protected] A Hymn All I have is today. And this moment, right now, Is to say that I have tried to make sense of space is my religion and the corners I called mine Your corners and the empty ones too It is true that nothing can be true to you and you and you But it is true that you are true and that truth does not always speak Does not always make itself mute I have seen truth in my sister’s eyes & in the stranger’s too Inside the woman in the child and the child in her The little sister in my eyes, the elegant woman in yours There is truth in the nows we found together and in those that found us together Right now is my religion I have heard truth in my brother’s voice You think of what things are for And will find that they move you Truth in my youth and truth in ours

I find that things are not In our childhood breaths, in little games and big ones too what they used to and I am used, too In the way he looked toward me for it and I to him But I find that in breath there is time It was in papi’s casita, a castillo to us where we carved That in breath there’s space roads out two-by-fours And that in peace there is living & made trucks out of them too and that was true It was all those esquimalitos we had from papa’s store All I have are moments, right now is my religion and in our appetites, our fights Because we were bad boys and that was true To think of the many mees To think of the many mees Our finger nails full of dirt, and mami, she told us not to but we did Pieced out & peace out We carved those roads, and that is true Is to say that today is only today Ayendy Bonifacio MFA Student Department of English

6 quepasa.osu.edu Trans-Culturation in Music Buena Vista Social Club and the Global Community

By Victoria Muñoz, PhD Candidate, Department of English

When the Buena Vista Social Club seventies and eighties when the group event, “a testament to the power of the released its studio album in 1997, I was formed; the surviving members continue music and how it keeps you going.” immediately hooked. The album is a to tour with enduring passion. So remarks Carlos Sosa, community leader and Founder/President of the Indianapolis communications design firm, the SosaGroup. Sosa moderated a pre-performance discussion that acquainted attendees with rhythmic features of traditional Cuban music, observable even in the famous bongo playing of Desi Arnaz, whose cries of “Babalu” on I Love Lucy harkened back to elements of African Yoruba culture, which was brought to Cuba during the slave trade. Sosa, who has advocated for the Latino community and helped bring Hispanic art shows and musical acts to the Midwest, explained the Latino influence in America as a process of cultural convergence: “Not only are we here and taking in American culture, but you have to understand that salsa is in more refrigerators than ketchup. Trans-culturation is what the last few decades have been about.”

This is perhaps the Buena Vista Social Club’s greatest legacy. Composed of some of the greatest musicians of our visceral expression of the old patria, On September 27, 2013, I experienced time, Buena Vista fuses history with a tangible link between my American Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club local culture. Still touring and bringing millennial childhood and my ancestral in concert at Butler University in new life to the music, Buena Vista also Cuban heritage. The hauntingly guttural Indianapolis. The performance continues to profoundly impact the vocals and yet wistfully dulcet melodies demonstrated the unassailable vitality global community. Sosa remarks, “as could mollify one’s homesickness, the and enduring dexterity of these musical much as politicians are aware of the perpetual grasping for familial roots that geniuses. Although lead vocalist Ibrahim contributions that Latinos continue to so many experienced as a result of the Ferrer and five other members have make, arts can be a stepping-stone to postwar Cuban diaspora. passed away, the group has been understanding the different facets of our replenished with new voices, such culture…The Buena Vista Social Club But Buena Vista was no mere relic of as Idania Valdés and Carlos Calunga. is just another way to bridge that gap. the past. A joint project by guitarist Ry Buena Vista’s most memorable songs It helps society to understand and to Cooder and Nick Gold (World Circuit like “El Cuarto de Tula” and “Chan show we hold onto our roots and that Records), featuring globally esteemed Chan” have retained their haunting we’re proud of it.” Cuban musicians, including Compay power, aided, of course, by veterans Segundo, Rubén Gonzáles, and Ibrahim Manuel Mirabal, Jesús Ramos, Barbarito Ferrer, Buena Vista represented an Torres, and Eliades Ochoa. Doña Omara efflorescent celebration of Cuba’s Portuondo, whose heartrending “Dos tremendous musical and cultural Gardenias” roused all Clowes Memorial heritage. Some musicians were in their Hall to its feet, was a highlight of the

Spring 7 Humanities and Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute

This week-long summer program this knowledge with new research campus. They will share the mornings provides a critical thinking forum for in the humanities can help us better with world-renowned professors in rising high school sophomores, juniors, understand critical processes such daily lectures and intensively studying and seniors matriculated in Columbus as thought, feeling, and action in our and discussing these topics. They will schools to explore the big questions at scientific world. participate in group discussions and the intersection of the humanities and activities in the afternoon. Students will cognitive sciences. Against this backdrop, an be introduced to research methods as interdisciplinary collaboration of well as to library and online resources. At the Summer Institute, students will professors has launched the Summer At the end of the week, they will have learn more about the correlation of Institute, developing its activities learned central aspects of how the brain sciences and the humanities. in partnership with OSU’s Office of humanities and cognitive sciences can For example, new research in brain Diversity and Inclusion and the Center work together to help us understand sciences can help us understand how for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. how we imagine, artistically create, and we create and consume culture such materially transform the world. as film, comic books, TV, poetry, short For one week, students will spend stories, and video games. Combining 9am-3pm on the beautiful OSU

Brena Yu-Chen Tai 2013-14 LASER/Humanites Fellow (W)holistic Feminism: Theorizing Feminist Healing

Deeply informed by women of color locates women’s oppression in the bro- existence through a politics of love in feminist writing, my dissertation aims kenness, fragmentation and alienation the state of suffering. Chicana feminism to propose a (w)holistic feminism that caused by multiple structures of oppres- in particular, women of color feminism sion. My project will theorize a porous in general, and indigenous healing body paradigm hinted at in women of concepts will serve as the main theo- color writing as an alternative feminist retical frameworks in my dissertation ontology more conducive to healing. I to theorize the porous body paradigm. suggest that to heal requires a process This project attempts to contribute to of creating a dynamic and ongoing women of color feminist theory, subjec- wholeness to achieve M. Jacqui Alexan- tivity studies, and body politics. der’s notion of radical intersubjectivity characterized by interdependence, interrelation and yearning for others’

8 quepasa.osu.edu Martín Pérez From Tortillería to Non-Profit Management

By Anthony Wiggins, Senior, Center for Life Sciences Education

Fourth year Finance and Non-Profit Something he noticed early in his Beta International Fraternity Inc. has Management double major Martín career as a Buckeye was the lack of a given me the tools and resources Pérez learned early on that hard work Latino community on campus. “Seeing to make events on campus I didn’t think were possible on my own. Our fraternity was instrumental in creating the first event regarding the DREAM Act. The event’s title was “Coming Out of the Shadows,” and we outlined the current situation regarding the act, as well as what we can do as students. I am very proud of what we have been able to accomplish in two and a half this,” he remarks, years at OSU.” Pérez also points to “I planned with the encounters among members that some friends continue to enhance the quality of and started the student life: “We’ve received positive Latino Student feedback for both LSA and SLB. Many Association.” great friendships have been formed, Martín is proud and I think we have been doing a great to see that his job of promoting cultural awareness LSA brainchild on campus.” has enhanced the Latino Pérez points out there is room for community’s improvement in programs like LSA interactions on campus: “Before and Sigma Lambda Beta: “I believe it LSA many events that were geared starts with general support. There are toward Latinos were of very little many great leaders, but they need the interest among students. I remember funding in order to create larger and my freshman year being at an event more successful events. Many other where I was one of just six people student groups on campus have a and determination go hand in hand: in attendance. I was very fortunate great amount of financial resources “I grew up in Michigan and moved to to have upperclassmen co-founders that LSA doesn’t because it is young Ohio when I was 15 to start working in Marcos Cruz and Issac Ezpinoza teach and developing.” a tortilla factory” he says. Pérez sees me the leadership skills necessary to value in the work he was doing: “I do maintain and enhance the program. While working in these organizations, believe that working at a young age Under their leadership I became Vice- Pérez found a passion for serving the helped me become a more determined president my sophomore year. LSA community and considers pursuing student. I knew then I didn’t want to has been putting on great events such similar actions after graduating. “I found work at a factory for the rest of my life, as Day of the Dead and the LSA Ball, interest in nonprofit management and that I needed to get an education. which hosts around 130 OSU students because of the community service The experience gave me a better and faculty.” done by our fraternity. My goals are understanding of money and time.” to work in the private sector, then Martín is also the president of eventually to move into working for a Pérez has handled his time at OSU well, OSU’s only multicultural fraternity on nonprofit company.” His rigorous work leading him to pursue the improvement campus: Sigma Lambda Beta. He’s ethic and dedication to the community of student life interests, including his used connections made through the are certain to lead Martín Pérez to a current position as Program Assistant fraternity as a platform to enhance successful career. for the Latino and Latin American Space understanding of education and issues for Enrichment and Research (LASER). facing today’s students. “Sigma Lambda

Spring 9 2013 Early Career Innovator of the Year

As Associate Professor in the Agricultural and Environmental Despite their wide availability in Department of Food Science and Sciences, Dr. Monica Giusti has nature, anthocyanins are difficult Technology, College of Food, developed technologies that and expensive to isolate into pure demonstrate the health benefits of forms. Dr. Giusti was granted a patent natural pigments, providing innovative on the chemoprotective effects of and practical solutions to the food anthocyanin-rich extracts, and has industry in its search for healthier, four additional patents pending. She is more natural alternatives to the use of regarded as one of the top anthocyanin synthetic dyes. food chemists in the world.

Dr. Giusti’s research program Dr. Giusti is the chief scientist for focuses on the use of anthocyanins AnthoScyantific, LLC, a start-up as alternatives to synthetic dyes. company based on her technology. Anthocyanins are the natural pigments The initial target market includes the responsible for most of the orange medical, pharmaceutical, nutritional, to red to blue to purple colors in and biological community. She is also nature. These pigments are powerful co-editor of Anthocyanins in Health and antioxidants, believed to play an Disease, the first book to summarize important role in the prevention of the advances in the field of disease cancer and other diseases. prevention and amelioration by anthocyanins.

Mutación Sentida

Se trata de un diluirse lento de pupilas, una tensión expandirse, los dedos sufren hermosas extensiones y un de las esquinas óseas, una inflamación indolora del hinchamiento tibio que complace. Y mientras este universo pecho, una deformación de labios. Pérdida súbita de las de carne crece por siglos sanguíneos y brevísimos, se simetrías, de la noción de orden, el hilo, la secuencia, la experimenta también un endurecimiento en el núcleo del idea de contar cosas concretas. Desvanecen las rutas de cuerpo, una trepanación, la evolución de un vacío que la sangre, la medida, la memoria, los puntos de partida ningún tejido, ninguna red con vida es capaz de colmar. y de llegada, coordenadas, horarios, y hasta las más Para los que así gozan o padecen –la diferencia es velo– vitales referencias de alarma. Hay como una sordera y la existencia pende de un hilo, una trama diariamente un adormecimiento de los nervios que antes se irritaban renovada, alimentada de palabras sin peso, de distancias frente al mundo y sus brisas nada tenues, solo se siente justas, de cuerpos que en su acompasamiento no pactado el cuerpo revolviéndose en su blandura ahora violencia, equilibran relieves interiores y se atraviesan de diminutas, y unos espasmos de horror y de placer que se niegan a reincidentes armonías. establecer fronteras. Se trata de una rebelión de órganos, una mutación solamente sentida. Nacen racimos vitales que blandamente palpitan y se desplazan otorgando una Dr. Lina X. Aguirre Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages abundancia inabarcable. El tórax concede, no deja de Ashland University

10 quepasa.osu.edu Graduate School Advice from the Inside

By Maria Barbero and Nic Flores, PhD Students, Department of Comparative Studies

So, you’re thinking of going to graduate school in the most aspects of graduate school—reading, researching, humanities? We were in your shoes just over a year and a writing, and teaching—require self-discipline and the ability half ago and there are a few things we wish we’d known. to complete tasks without someone holding your hand. This may seem self-evident (“of course you’re supposed to do things on your own”) but graduate school is somewhat of a rude awakening, so be open and ready!

Second, and connected to the first point, fanning your own flame is not always an individual process. In fact, graduate school requires asking questions, learning from classmates, and seeking support networks. All of these are abundant in graduate school, not only in specific programs, but also across the university. The big difference is that as a graduate student, you are now responsibile for seeking out these resources. In US schools many of us are taught that education is an individual process: “it is my grade, my degree, my education.” In our experience, graduate school teaches you above all that you need others as resources to help to succeed. Take advantage of resources available to you. Organizations and institutional support like L.A.S.E.R., the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Multicultural Center exist on most campuses.

Our last piece of advice is two-fold and concerns both money and expectations. First, know how much funding (that’s code for money) you are offered before making any decisions. Considerations should include cost of living, travel, and health insurance. Second, based on that decision, set realistic goals in and out of the classroom. Coursework, research, and teaching obligations will consume much of your time, so do not underestimate what is expected of you. While you learn to manage both time and money in graduate school, setting realistic expectations from the beginning is important.

With these things in mind, lets not forget that the opportunity Here, we offer a few lessons we learned upon entering to enter graduate studies is a great privilege. As Leticia graduate school, through conversations with classmates Wiggins pointed out in the last edition of ¿Que Pasa?, only and faculty, and by making sense of our daily lives. Our 4.3% of Latinos in the US hold a graduate or professional list is primarily applicable to future humanities graduate degree. So, for those interested in pursuing graduate students—we speak to our experience in the Department studies, we hope that you found this short discussion of of Comparative Studies—but we suspect that any and all some of the lessons we’ve learned helpful. Most of all, we knowledge about graduate school is useful across offer you mucha suerte and positive energy! the board.

First, in graduate school you must fan your own flame. What does this mean? Consider: As undergraduates, there are several safety and support nets that ensure that you are To connect with with Maria or Nic, email: [email protected] on track, completing assignments, seeking opportunities or [email protected] and new experiences. We quickly found out last year that

Spring 11 Out-of-The Closet A Chicano in Columbus

By Joey Terrill, AIDS Healthcare Foundation Director

AIDS Healthcare Foundation is the largest provider of HIV Short North District has been my focus. One unique aspect care and treatment in the world. We are in 28 countries, of the Out-of-The-Closet store is that we offer free HIV 16 states, including Ohio. Our mission statement is to testing 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. We use the Insti provide “cutting test with results in one minute. This model makes HIV edge medicine testing easy, accessible, and works to diminish the stigma and advocacy associated not only with the disease but also with regardless of testing for it. ability to pay.” While I personally have been “out-of-the-closet” regarding Last year we my homosexual orientation since I can remember, the term reached a also refers here to the name of our thrift store which itself milestone of plays with the term for “coming out” but also references folks providing care donating items from their closet to the store. to over 250,000 individuals As a gay Chicano artist living in LA and New York City in the from the US to 1980s, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) ravaged the Africa, Asia, Latin communities and people to whom I was most connected. America, and the Friends, lovers, co-workers, fellow students, artists, Caribbean. The roommates, and acquaintances became infected, got sick, AHF Healthcare and died. This year marks 34 years that I have been living Center on the with HIV and it remains a factor that fuels my advocacy work. Westside has Today, Latinos comprise a disproportionate percentage of new HIV cases relative to our percentage of the general population. 20% of individuals who are HIV positive do not know they are carrying the virus and are unknowingly transmitting the disease to others. Socioeconomic factors as well as cultural obstacles prevent access to information, education, testing and care. The work to change that continues. Adherence and remaining linked into care are essential to people living their lives as healthily as possible.

On a personal note, before HIV was discovered, I was an artist whose work examined issues of ethnic, cultural, and sexual identity. I remain one to this day.

Joey Terrill’s exhibited his paintings at the Short North Alli- been open just over a year providing care, treatment, and ance Office on 5th Avenue. His work was also featured in testing. Over last four years, I have been coming back and the Autumn, 2013 issue of ¿Qué Pasa?. forth to Ohio working with local advocates to address issues Out-of-the-Closet is located at 1230 N High St. Columbus, around changes to the Ohio AIDS Drug Assistance Program, OH 43201. To arrange a donation pick up, call state budget cuts, and service sustainability. 1-877-2-PICK-IT-UP. My most recent assignment as AHF Columbus Project Director has me living here in Columbus. Overseeing the AHF Healthcare Center on the Westside as well as the building out and opening of the Out-of-The-Closet Thrift Store and AHF Pharmacy on High St. and 5th Ave. in the

12 quepasa.osu.edu One Life to Live: A Case Study On Latinidad and Marking Latino Characters

By Doug Bush, Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

During the premiere of Prospect Park’s ceased for white and black characters. Many monolingual-English series with revival of daytime soap One Life to Live Because these characters are largely Latino characters do feature snippets in 2013, Téa Delgado rocks and sings culturally undifferentiated from others of Spanish dialogue, but these are on the screen, those moments that typically a linguistic decoration—words specifically call attention to their like Mija, por favor and gracias. And Latinidad become salient for viewers. while One Life did the same, in these Thus, my central question is how soaps scenes, we see critical dialogue that have punctuated the Latinidad of these becomes completely inaccessible for characters, and to what end. monolingual viewers. In the first scene, viewers can read Téa as angry given For One Life to Live, instances of her vocal tone, but in the second, there Latinidad were frequently defined are no such markers, leaving such by the incorporation of unsubtitled viewers in the dark. dialogue in Spanish. Téa Delgado, portrayed by Florencia Lozano, was We typically assume that viewers of prone to emotional outbursts in these shows are older white females, Spanish, effectively linking Latinidad and such scenes may cast Latinos with volatility. This is evident in a as threatening, carrying out secret scene where Téa reacts to her conversations in Spanish. Nevertheless, husband Todd’s role in her daughter’s 2002 network research showed disappearance from 2011. that 25% of the ABC soap audience was Latino (more recent data is not STARR: You threw him against a wall available). Featuring such a large and said that you were going to have number of Latino characters effectively him arrested for rape. becomes a way of speaking to these Florencia Lozano as One Life To Live’s TODD: Statutory rape. viewers, at least from the point of Téa Delgado TÉA: Qué idiota, ¡por supuesto que view of the mostly white producers nuestra hija se afuera de su casa! and writers who work behind the a lullaby in Spanish while mourning the TODD: Lo siento? scenes. But this reflects one of the loss of her baby. The episode features TÉA: This isn’t funny! I knew you didn’t most pressing problems of Latino no other dialogue in Spanish, and this tell me the truth. No wonder representation in soaps: the lack of particular scene is not subtitled. ABC’s Daniella left. Latinos behind-the-scenes influencing version of One Life to Live (1968-2012) these representations, which is also featured a notable amount of At times, this use of Spanish is something that hasn’t changed, and unsubtitled Spanish dialogue, which I presented as threatening or confusing, likely won’t in the future. read as an important way of marking such as in this scene from 2012, where the Latinidad of Latina/o characters. Téa meets police officer Delores and bad-guy Johnny after step-daughter Given the decline of the daytime Starr is imprisoned. Note: Not all soap representations soap, little has been said about of are as benign. Latinidad has featured Latino characters. Although TÉA: Starr has a lawyer. Téa Delgado. frequently been connected with Latinos did not influence stories until JOHNNY: I’ve never heard of you. criminality across multiple soaps. the 1990s, One Life has featured DELORES: Este tipo es un perdido. Lo “Passions” occasionally employed more than 30 Latinos since, while mejor es que la mantenga alejada blatantly racist dialog. There, white NBC’s Passions (1999-2008) placed de él. social-climber Rebecca Hotchkiss Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald as its central TÉA: Sí, eso lo veo muy clarito. hurled insults at heroine Theresa that heroine. Nevertheless, this influx of JOHNNY: What was that? included “chalupa” and “Tacosita.” For Latino characters has given writers TÉA: That was Spanish. You ever heard a full version of this continuing study, and producers an opportunity to play of that? contact [email protected]. on their ethnicity, something long

Spring 13 Jennifer Wray, The Wexner’s Marketing All Roads Lead to Brazil and Media Assistant, explained that this complicated past is reflected in Brazil’s By Leticia Wiggins, PhD Student, Department of History contemporary art scene and that “Brazil is having a moment.” Indeed, Brazil is As I sit here clacking away on my preparation period of any prior exhibit making itself known on the world stage, laptop, a website informs me that it is and with the most collaboration across in more ways than one. Ohio State 18° F in Columbus and 86° F in Rio de OSU departments, the center considers recognizes the nation as an important Janeiro. This conjures vibrant imaginings Brazil from every possible cultural site for recruitment and networking, and of sun-drenched beaches and nights direction. Film, performance, and an art is planning to open a Global Gateway spent out sans pea coats. Yes, while the exhibit all exemplify the diverse nature office in São Paulo. The country is also weather may not reflect it, there is a little of a country in the middle of economic, taking the world stage with plans to bit of Brazil in Columbus this season. political, and social change. host both the 2014 FIFA World Cup this The Wexner Center’s latest exhibit, Via summer and the 2016 Olympics. Brasil, brings the art and culture of South “Brazil is Having a Moment” America’s largest country to the thawing Admittedly, the most common question More than Just Art tundra of Columbus, Ohio. asked of the marketing and media Amidst all of these diplomatic moves department is, “Why Brazil?” The answer and sporting events, it is continuously By Way of Many Paths is multipart, but stems directly from the important to recognize the role of art As the product of a generous country’s history. Between 1964 and and culture in society. This allows for a $782,3000 grant from the Andrew W. 1985, a series of authoritarian regimes “deeper understanding of a country,” Mellon Foundation, Via Brasil (by way governed Brazil. The second military Wexner’s Public Relations Manager Eric of Brazil) is the culmination of four years government of President Artur da Costa Pepple explains. According to Pepple, of involved planning and research. e Silva (1967-69) imposed a series of it is essential to consider, “that the arts Receiving news of this grant in 2011, Institutional Acts (Ato Institucional, or are a part of economics, politics, culture, then University President, E. Gordon “AI”). AI-5, the worst of these, legalized and more.” Art cannot be divorced Gee hoped the Wexner Center, “already heavy censorship of artistic expression from culture. This realization hit the Via a leading light in the realm of cross- among other repressive regulations. Brasil coordinators early on, as they departmental, cross-disciplinary efforts, This authoritarian rule and the continued consciously named the exhibits and will again blaze a path with political violence following Costa e programs Cruzamentos, the Portuguese this initiative.” Silva’s government fomented an art word for “crossroads.” The Wexner scene unlike any other in the world, as Center now serves as a central meeting Via Brasil does not disappoint – it is artists shrewdly defied the laws placed place of national understanding through a cross-departmental and disciplinary against creative expression. Via Brasil’s various art exhibits, film, and success. Afforded the longest performance projects.

14 quepasa.osu.edu y Contemporary Art in Brazil Brazilian documentary series ever Sales Gomes, a renowned historian As Wray explains, the main presented in North America. Again, and film critic are slated to publish in coordinators of the Cruzamentos preparation for this event came 2014, and a symposium surrounding art exhibit, Curator at Large Bill with Chris Stults, Associate Curator his work will be held in the fall 2014. Horrigan and Film/Video Studio for Film/Video’s total immersion in Curator Jennifer Lange prepared Brazilian film, literature, and cinema. Throughout the year, ¿Qué Pasa OSU? for this exhibit through the practice hopes to delve into the importance of total immersion. The art exhibit, y Performance Art and Programs of Brazil’s art and culture, bringing is the result of extensive research, Performances during the stay of Via you special coverage of the Wexner fieldwork during multiple visits Brasil add yet another dimension to Center’s exploration of a nation with to Brazil, and a close partnership this unique presentation and feature Via Brasil. See what events are up with critic, curator, and professor the likes of rising Brazilian hip-hop next at their interactive website, from Universidade Federal do Rio artist Criolo and the dynamic dance wexarts.org/viabrasil. de Janeiro, Paulo Venâncio Filho. group Companhia Urbana de Dança. Featuring artists renowned and Educational and public programs also relatively unknown, single and multi- work to engage students medium, the result is an exhibit rife at university and high with colors, political contentions, school levels. A translation and experimentation. of essays by Paulo Emílio

u Special thanks to Jennifer Wray for working with ¿Qué Pasa OSU? on developing this series.

v Images Shown: u Part of the exhibit features 35 contemporary Brazilian artists, many whose work has not been exposed throughout the U.S. This photo features the work of Laura Belém, and is titled “Venice of Brazil” (2007). v This photo features Tropicålia, a film that showed in February and featured the collision of arts, culture, and politics during the late 1960s in Brazil. x w Contemporary Brazilian Documentaries are also part of this exhibit, and capture y Contemporary Brazilian a nation trying to come to terms with Documentary its history. w Beyond the confines of studio art, x Other documentaries feature the the Wexner Center approaches development of the art world in Brazil. Brazil from a documentary A still from Hélio Oiticica, for example, perspective. This compilation of shows an installation from the famous more than 30 contemporary films Brazilian visual artist known for – rarely ever shown outside of the his innovative use of color and geometric shapes. country – constructs the largest

Spring 15 Ani Palacios Una Escritora Local En Columbus

Por Elena Foulis, Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Ani Palacios es una periodista y que para ella, escribir y publicar en Esta relación recíproca es evidente escritora peruana que ha vivido en los español—más allá de los periódicos en su última novela titulada, 99 Estados Unidos por más de 20 años. locales—permite que el inmigrante Amaneceres. Además de utilizar la metafísica, unos de los temas favoritos de Ani, ésta novela usa el ataque de las torres gemelas en Nueva York como punto de partida. La protagonista en esta novela habla con una espiritista acerca del novio que perdió el 11 de septiembre. Ani hace su tarea cuando escribe sus novelas. Aunque muchas veces puede incluir parte de ella misma en sus historias, para 99 Amaneceres, ella decidió vivir con una soul blender en Virgina. De la misma forma, para una novela por encargo que actualmente está escribiendo, ella ha pasado tiempo entrevistando y entendiendo a la persona que será el protagonista de estas memorias.

Ani actualmente es la líder de la Sociedad de Escritores de Columbus, un espacio donde escritores de todos Ani comenzó como periodista, pero Latino exprese su experiencia propia los niveles—incluyendo principiantes en el 2009 decidió seguir su pasión en su propio idioma. El perfil de estos como yo—se reúnen para compartir creativa publicando su primer libro, inmigrantes escritores es más o menos sus historias, practicar la escritura, y Living in a Double World: A Practical así: inmigrantes recientes, adultos, ya experimentar con nuevos géneros Guided Tour through the Immigrant con alguna profesión o licenciatura en literarios en Gahanna, OH. El éxito de Experience (2010) publicado en inglés su país de origen, y con una variedad talleres como éste es evidente, ya que y español. El siguiente año publica de raíces socioeconómicas. Esto los el año pasado se publicó la antología su segunda novela, Plumbago Torres hace indiscutiblemente tener una De una a siete—horas en las que este y el sueño americano, y obtuvo el experiencia diferente que escritores grupo se reúne—una colección de International Latino Book Award como, por ejemplo, Junot Díaz, historias y poemas que salieron de en 2011. Christina García, Sandra Cisneros, y estos encuentros. Ani nos dice en sus otros que empezaron escribiendo sus talleres que, “La inspiración tiene un Ani forma parte de una ola de experiencias de niñez en este país. efecto físico, que puede provocar hasta escritores Latinos de Estados Unidos Para Ani, el escritor Latino reciente nos lágrimas,” y al leer está antología uno lo que escribe y publica en español. provee con experiencias únicas que puede comprobar. Este año se espera Cuando le pregunté a Ani por qué mezclan su cultura, lengua, educación tener otra publicación similar. ella insiste en escribir solamente en y profesión con los Estados Unidos; es español, con una sonrisa picaresca decir, los inmigrantes muestran me contestó “escribir y publicar en en su escritura una relación de español en este país es un acto influencia recíproca. de rebeldía.” Ani se considera la “patrona de las causas perdidas” ya

16 quepasa.osu.edu The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise

By Sonia BasSheva Manjon, Barnett Center Director

The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated she researches marginalized and invisible immigrant Arts and Enterprise educates and prepares students for communities. Through the Barnett Center, she will work with successful careers in the arts and related entrepreneurial graduate and undergraduate students interested in arts management, entrepreneurship, community collaborations, institutional partnerships, community arts, and civic engagement programs.

The Center will collaborate with the Fisher College of Business, Moritz College of Law, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, and multiple departments within the College of Arts and Sciences. Guests from local, regional, and national arts organizations will provide leadership to students through the Barnett Symposium and Barnett Speaker and Seminar series, platforms for new thinking, research, and practice in integrated arts, arts entrepreneurship, and enterprise. The center will also provide opportunities for students to participate in residencies and practicums with alumni, faculty, and arts practitioners through internships and mentorships.

The Center’s signature program this semester is the Graduate Student Think Tank. The Think Tank consist of an interdisciplinary group of six graduate students who are working collaboratively with the internationally acclaimed, female African-American a cappella Grammy Award winning ensemble, Sweet Honey in the Rock. The ensemble celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. They preserve the traditions of African American vocal music and address critical issues of democracy, freedom, DRAFT racism, and economic and social justice. The students work fields. The center with members of the ensemble in analyzing critical issues, advances and assessing 40th anniversary performance engagements, and increases students’ evaluating current practices. Students who participate in the understanding of the business side of the arts and the Think Tank: worlds of arts management, policy, and culture by focusing • Learn the process of collaboration with others outside on the entrepreneurial aspects of the arts. their field of study, New to the OSU family, Sonia BasSheva Manjon has been • Receive academic credit for their work, named the inaugural director. Dr. Manjon, Dominican • Are listed as contributors on published material, American and native of California, is associate professor in • Work directly with the artist and/or organization the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy. • Have access to faculty, industry professionals, and arts Her artistic background includes dance, theatre, video and administrators through the Barnett Center. photography. Her photographic and video exhibit, Invisible Identities: Mujeres Dominicanas en California, was displayed For additional information about the Center and to see a at the Ohio Union this term. Professionally she has directed schedule of events, check out barnettcenter.osu.edu or visit and managed cultural performing arts organizations and the Center in Sullivant Hall Room 131, 1813 N. High Street. local and state arts agencies. A cultural anthropologist,

Spring 17 On Academics, Storytelling, and Luba Taking Over

Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, creators of the famed Love & Rockets comics were honored keynote speakers for the 2013 Festival of Cartoon Art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and GH: [LAUGHS] Museum. What follows is an excerpt of Gilbert’s interview with TR: Do you ever find that your tools ¿Qué Pasa? Editor, Theresa Rojas. have an effect on the story? GH: You know I never thought of that, TR: It’s been amazing having both India ink. I’m using the brush less. I used but it might be in the tone of the story. of you here. Is this your first time the brush a lot when I was drawing for a It does sometimes. Let’s say I’m doing in Columbus? magazine, so I was drawing larger. Now a story in the forest and the brushwork the books are getting smaller and I can’t will make it very lush and thick. I can use GH: I believe so. Last year I was doing a lot of ink on a lot of natural things like a book tour for Marble Season and it get the detail on the brushes any more, so I’m using a crow quill pen. The line trees and rocks and leaves. But then was going well. When that stopped I I’ll use like a cold line from a technical finally got to stay home and get to work isn’t as nice, but it’s quick and better for drawing small. Once in a while when I pen sometimes, not often—I don’t like a and then this popped up. I usually have dead line, but I’ll do it sometimes and it to juggle which ones I’m going to but have to do a cover or an illustration, I use a brush and remember how good will create a different tone, you’re right. this one sounded so good and I was It does create a different feel. Luckily encouraged by so many people about and how fun it is. I use a pretty small brush, like a double zero. The actual I’m quick enough to think which one is it—this is going to be a big deal, this is going to work and so I can just go to it. going to be really good. You know, it’s common brush size for comics is a just worth it, and I have to figure I want number two, but I could never get to do a big one for the end of the year. the detail. TR: Sometimes when I’m working with acrylic mediums, I’ll have little disasters. Then I’ll realize wait, maybe TR: What was your experience of that’s going to be some other thing I the whole Festival of Cartoon Art, wasn’t expecting. Columbus, etc. GH: Yeah, you have to think quickly GH: It was great. What I like about and think, “This is good.” Somewhere doing stuff with the academics is that this is gonna work because if you just everything is taken seriously. Everything get bummed out, the ink destroys your is taken like, “Let’s see what this is drawing and then you’re just going to about, let’s talk about it, see what we be bummed out all the time. What I can do in the future with this.” Whereas have found interesting with what your comics is a little more competitive and a saying, and this is always the down little more—eh, you know. It’s still comic side, you can have the perfect pencils, books. A bunch of boys running around. but the inking will just change it—not I don’t know, they’re not that interested necessarily for the worse, but it will in our comics. They appreciate and they change it. You’re heartbroken because sell our comics and the fans go in to the pencils are gone. So sometimes if buy our comics, but themselves aren’t I like the pencils a lot, I photocopy. Not interested in us that much. Here, there’s because I need to use them, but just to an attention to what’s going on and how have them. Then I wind up whiting out to make things better or at least more the face and changing it anyway. informative and that’s what I like. TR: And that double zero is so fine. GH: It’s so fine and I can get a pretty TR: That’s how you have your history TR: What are your favorite tools for thick line with it. They only last a few too, your archive, right? Because you creating your work? weeks because it’s about three hairs. don’t work on a computer—you do GH: I’m pretty old school. It’s a everything by hand? mechanical pencil, eraser, straight edge, TR: Three hairs! ¿Qué pasó con esto? GH: Yeah, everything by hand. a particular size paper depending on Like what is going on? what they’re going to print, and black

18 quepasa.osu.edu Academics, Storytelling, and Luba Taking Over

TR: That’s a good way for you to have that history of the evolution of have a book to read. She can’t read your work. my books, no. She’s like “Daddy, I want it doesn’t matter. I’m back telling a new GH: I think so. We used to throw notes to read your books,” and I’m like “no, story, that’s the most important thing. away and now I don’t throw anything you can’t. No. No. NO. Too bad.” Oh, I Then the other questions come up. But away. Those little photocopies are know when I’m gone she’s sneaking it the first impulse I get is like—ah!—I’m handy. People want to see them. out, I know that, but you have to play gonna do a new story! What can I say Jaime doesn’t have notes, he only has the role. You have to represent to the new? What can I do new? I like doing scripts on a yellow pad. I have a lot of kids. You gotta be the bad guy who’s the next thing. I hate finishing stuff. drawings. After 30 years, people want strict because that’s what they’re going Jaime’s the opposite. He hates starting to see that. I literally have notes from 30 use later in life. If she has I don’t know but he can finish real easily. years ago. To me 30 years is like five. what’s she’s seen. Well, the kid is To the world it’s old stuff now. I don’t precocious. She’s 13, so 3 years when TR: Do you ever feel like a character is think of it that way, but luckily I collected she’s 16 maybe. Maybe. I mean I’d say telling you where it wants to go? all of that stuff in a box, so I’ll send that 57, but I gotta be realistic. GH: Oh yeah. That’s why Palomar first [to the BICLM]. They still want some worked for me so well. It’s like the art to put up. Now that is an honor. I TR: Do you ever have friends or characters wrote it. Particularly Luba. mean because the art they have up is family who feel implicated by a story I didn’t create Luba to be a regular like the history you know? you’ve told? Where they say “That’s character, but she took over. It’s like me, isn’t it?” “Okay I’m done with you” and she said TR: Do you ever work in color? GH: There are some people vain SMACK! I’m gonna do this now. I go, GH: Not me. I have my stuff colored, but enough to say that. I’ve heard “Why’d that’s interesting, okay. Then I did it I don’t in particular work like that. I’m you write that about me?” and I say it’s again. I go I don’t know if I want to do just a wake up in the morning and just not about you, you egoed-out maniac. I Luba again—SMACK! Pretty soon I just do it person. I don’t like a lot of post- mean I have used people and things. In started putting more and more of myself production. I’m just meat and potatoes. fact in the book I’m doing right now, I’m in there. This is where cartoonists are I’ve gotta draw this, get it done and doing a near-version of a guy I knew in lucky. If you create a character that is get it out. I’m more pre-production. I high school and if he read it he would not anything like you physically or how don’t have that separate “I am an artist” recognize himself. I’m not making him you speak, you can say all you want. type thing. I never have. It’s all about a villain because I’m getting revenge That’s why I made Luba so abrasive. storytelling for me. on him, it just works in the story so I can be as abrasive as I want, but well. If I really want to nail a person, I’m I don’t look or sound like Luba so not afraid to put their name down and nobody’s gonna say “Hey! What’d you TR: So you see yourself as draw their likeness. But I don’t. I do say there?!” They say hey Luba’s kind a storyteller? characters. I do a story. If everyone else of going nuts isn’t she, but that’s really GH: Strictly. Not even as an artist or a doesn’t recognize that person, but that me. So that’s an advantage about art writer. A storyteller. That’s how I see one guy does and he’s the only one and creating characters. And I’ve gotten myself. Luckily Jaime draws so well well, too bad. Nobody else does, so over the top with her. Sometimes her that he could pull his art away from don’t mention it. attitude is just too bad, but then that’s his stories. He just has great art. If you her. Like I said, it’s not me, it’s her. separate my writing and my drawing, it’s TR: Is there a character or a storyline not as effective a story, I think. that you really enjoy coming back to? Ohio State’s BICLM holds the world’s GH: It’s funny, in the old days I would largest collection of cartoon-related TR: Related to that, do you let your have said going back to Palomar. Now, daughter read your stuff? material. In November, they will host the I can’t wait to get back to the drawing 2014 International Comic Arts Festival. GH: I started doing Marble Season, the board to do a new story. Whether it’s Visit cartoons.osu.edu. kids book, last year so that she could done with new characters or old ones,

Spring 19 OSU for Spanish Heritage Speakers A Conversation with Glenn Martínez

“The Department of Spanish and Professor Martínez hopes that Ohio’s With significant research and Portuguese (SPPO) at Ohio State Latino youth will find a home in the administrative experience to his credit, is uniquely positioned to create a department. He wants them to know Dr. Martínez found an ideal fit at Ohio welcoming space for Ohio’s Latino that Ohio State is a destination that is State. The university has excellent youth.” So says Glenn Martínez, Chair within their reach, and their linguistic doctoral programs in Spanish and an of SPPO and Professor of Spanish. and cultural experience will enhance outstanding medical center, so he Martinez explains that the linguistic their academic and career outcomes. is able to further his research while and cultural skills that Latino students In fact, students can look to his career leading one of the nation’s top- bring to the academy represent path for an inspirational example. ranked departments. valuable assets. SPPO values and enhances these assets while In autumn 2013, Dr. Martínez joined He observes, “SPPO at Ohio State has contributing to students’ intellectual the Ohio State faculty to lead the strong scholarship in Iberian studies, and professional development. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Latino studies and Latin American Prior to that, he chaired the Department language and culture,“ With the world’s Many heritage Spanish speakers of Modern Languages and Literature at leading linguistics scholars here, he demonstrate excellent language the University of Texas Pan American; sees the potential for growth in unique aptitude in high school. Professor directed the Spanish for Heritage areas. For example, the department Martínez emphasizes that “we need to Learners program at the University of can capitalize on applied linguistics to find ways to reach those students in Arizona; and completed a postdoctoral advance language teaching in both high school and help them understand fellowship in health disparities at the general and specialized studies. that their skills carry not only intrinsic University of North Texas. His research value, but they also have instrumental is focused on issues of language Settling into a new place to call home value for their academic development.” access policy in healthcare, and the with his wife, Sandra and his son and He notes well-established research sociolinguistics of language barriers daughter, Martínez and his family have that demonstrates that when students and Limited English Proficiency within experienced one of the coldest Ohio acquire content in two languages, the context of public health and health winters in decades—a stark contrast to they know the content much better: service delivery. He has also written the typically mild South Texas clime “Whatever path they choose, students extensively on Spanish instruction for they left behind. With a promising will be more competitive and better heritage speakers. academic agenda for the year ahead, prepared to serve the community if they and a warm reception from the have those language and cultural skills.” Columbus community, the weather proves no deterrent. Three Poems of Death and Life Continuity Below Zero But I already have too many owners, The snow came and froze your Today, even the dead are cold: I owe to so many creditors in bloodstains, then the rain washed In their graves, this world. them away. White from snow And so I want my last seconds to Your death is a poem scribbled on And black from death, belong to no one. the winter road, the six verses of your They yearn for an embrace. I want my last breath to need life drip through the pavement cracks permission from no one. and flow down below where the Día de los Muertos I want to own the right grass, the earthworms and the oaks Disney tried to copyright death, to my own death. drink your liquid words and break the souls of everyone departed the silence of night with their to sell toys and cupcakes. Mauricio Espinoza, PhD Candidate terrestrial songs. Department of Spanish and Portuguese

20 quepasa.osu.edu Walter Zinn: Supply Chain Logistics Opportunities for Latinos

By Francisco X. Gómez-Bellengé, Associate to the Dean, Fisher College of Business

Professor Walter Zinn grew up in the Logistics, he began to apprehend the costs among the lowest in the world. melting pot of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest social import of supply chains and Industrial operations are relocating city. Although Brazil was originally a the role that wholesalers play. Latin from elsewhere, especially Asia, to America has some inefficient supply North America. These transformations chains, which create a substantial are creating opportunity in the form of burden for low-income consumers. increased demand for jobs in logistics Prices in favelas, the Brazilian and supply chains, especially for shantytowns, may be up to bilingual Spanish speakers. double the price of upscale neighborhood supermarkets. There is substantial demand for transportation analysts to manage This unfairness is a result of different companies’ transportation and supply chains. Upper income Brazilian supply chain analysts to coordinate consumers are able to purchase goods transportation, warehousing, in supermarkets supplied by large inventories and procurement. Together trucks, purchase goods in quantity, with engineering faculty, Professor store perishables in home refrigerators Zinn developed the Master of Business and use cars to purchase groceries Logistics Engineering program in 2005. in bulk. These conditions create It is a joint Business and Engineering substantial economies of scale that degree. Dr. Zinn is eager to recruit a benefit consumers. Those who live in diverse group of students for his 1.5- favelas rely on public transportation year program. Many students get paid and must walk considerable distances summer internships. There is also a to get home, often on steep, unpaved scholarship of $6,000 available to U.S. Portuguese colony and Portuguese surfaces. As a result, they rely heavily citizens or permanent residents. is the official language, Zinn’s friends’ on very small stores proximal to home families came not only from Portugal, with little inventory. These stores are Students who are interested in the but also from Europe and Japan. His provisioned by small vehicles making MBLE usually have undergraduate friends saw themselves as Brazilians, frequent deliveries. Low-income degrees in engineering or other but people also kept their traditions. Brazilians can only purchase a few quantitative fields. The MBL celebrates things at a time and cannot store the accomplishments of three recent When he settled in the United States, refrigerated goods. They might buy Latino graduates: Angelina Burgos he realized what an advantage growing diapers in quantities of 2 or 3, eggs is now at the Pontificia Universidad up in a multicultural environment had individually. Eggs in the form of “arroz in Santo Domingo and Francisco been. He could adapt to any situation com ovo” are a main source of protein Padilla and Carlos Castillo are Deloitte and be more appreciative of people in Brazil’s tropical climate; they can be consultants based in Chicago and from different backgrounds. This multi- stored longer than dairy or raw meat. Cincinnati, respectively. ethnic experience also provided a huge advantage professionally because Today, logistics and supply chains he understands that being different are rapidly evolving, especially in the Walter Zinn is Professor of Logistics is fine. This also helped him to adapt US. Consumers’ habits are changing and chair of the Department of Market- to the United States when he went to (i.e. online and mobile purchases). ing and Logistics at the Fisher College graduate school. Companies like Amazon and UPS are reshaping the supply chain landscape. of Business. Professor Zinn did his undergraduate Supply chains are expanding in North degree at Fundação Getulio Vargas, America due to a manufacturing one of Brazil’s most prestigious renaissance fueled by the natural gas colleges. When he took a class in boom, which has made U.S. energy

Spring 21 Alexandra Griffin, Dental Student On Outreach and Latino Community

By Tamra Pace, Director, College of Dentistry Marketing and Communications

When Alexandra Griffin’s family moved to the United States Despite her demanding courses, Griffin also made outreach— from Bogotá, Colombia, 14-year-old Griffin brought more than especially in the Hispanic community—a personal priority. clothes and childhood treasures. She also brought her love “I wanted to help people, which is why I pursued dentistry of science and dentistry. Introduced to the profession by an in the first place. Learning that there was a need in the Columbus Hispanic community, I thought, ‘why wait until I’m a dentist? I can start now.’”

Griffin currently serves as president of the college’s Hispanic Student Dental Association (HSDA), an arm of the national Hispanic Dental Association. Under the supervision of Dr. Henry Fischbach, an associate professor at the College of Dentistry, HSDA collaborates with Ohio Hispanic Coalition, an advocacy organization, to provide dental screenings for Hispanics in the Columbus area. Dental students treat patients at the dental college or in its mobile dental coach, which parks at Northwood and High Street at La Clinica Latina, the first Tuesday of every month.

A highlight of Griffin’s burgeoning dental career was when she joined other health sciences students and faculty advisors in Partnership for Ongoing Developmental Educational and Medical Outreach Solutions (PODEMOS) to treat indigent people in rural areas of Honduras last June. “We offered a clinic for five days in places like schools or churches. Some places had no electricity, no dental chairs— nothing. We mostly performed extractions and taught people how to brush and floss.”

Heavy soda consumption and inadequate self-care contributed to the advanced tooth decay Griffin observed in many Honduran patients. “It was a great experience to help people. At the same time, it was so sad to pull a permanent aunt in the field, Griffin enrolled in a dental assisting program tooth on an eight year old.” in Florida as a high school student. She graduated with a dental assisting certificate, allowing her to work immediately After she graduates in 2015, Griffin plans to return to Florida upon graduation. to be near family, become an associate at an established private practice, and someday start her own practice. She “I enrolled in the dental assisting program to make sure I plans to continue her outreach in both Columbia and the liked dentistry and realized I loved every moment of it,” Griffin United States. remembers. After working as a dental assistant, Griffin earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science at the University of “Working with patients is most rewarding. I love when South Florida. “I applied to Ohio State since my in-laws lived patients want to continue their treatment because they trust in Columbus and talked so highly of the university. After I was something you said. I had a patient that had not sought offered a scholarship, the decision to come here was easy.” dental treatment for 30 years and he was so scared. Now he trusts me. To be able to gain that trust has meant so much.” Griffin’s careful research into her chosen field well prepared for life as a dental student. “I knew that I was not going to have a life,” she joked. “The first two years were nothing but books—and you are trying to learn your hand skills. Trying to balance both was hard.”

22 quepasa.osu.edu Noticias: Recognizing Excellence at OSU

Publications Eds. M. Becker, J. Grinstead, and J. Alcira Dueñas, Associate Professor, Aldama, Frederick Luis. Editor. Latinos Rothman. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Department of History, was named and Narrative Media: Participation 2013. 107-128. Print. a 2013-14 Fulbright Scholar for “The and Portrayal. New York: Palgrave Indian Republic at Work: Native Macmillan, 2013. Print. Mendoza, Tony. A Cuban Summer. N.p.: Notaries, Lawyers, and Protectores de Capra Press, 2013. Print. Naturales in the Colonial Andes,” at Aldama, Frederick Luis and Ilan the National Archive of Ecuador, Quito, Stavans. ¡Muy Pop!: Conversations Rojas, Theresa. “Kat Von D. and Ecuador, May – July 2013; and May – on Latino Popular Culture. Ann Arbor: the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture.” July 2014. The University of Michigan Press, 2013. In Latinos and Narrative Media: Print. Participation and Portrayal. Ed. M. Monica Giusti, Associate Professor, Frederick Aldama. New York: Palgrave Department of Food Science and Aldama, Frederick Luis and Macmillan, 2013. 117-128. Print. Technology, College of Food, Christopher González. Latinos in Agricultural and Environmental the End Zone: Conversations on the Awards, Grants, and Sciences was named 2013 Early Career Brown Color Line in the NFL. New York: Accomplishments Innovator of the Year. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Print. Frederick Aldama was named 2014 Co-Principal Investigator. University Distinguished Scholar. Each Mileidis Gort, Project REMODEL: Restructuring to Aldama, Frederick Luis and Patrick year, through the DSA program, the meet the needs of Ohio’s diverse and Colm Hogan. Conversations on university recognizes and honors six exceptional learners (Laurie Katz, PI). Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, faculty members who demonstrate Ohio Deans Compact on Exceptional Language, and Aesthetics. Columbus: scholarly activity, research, or other Children ($250,000). The Ohio State UP, 2014. Print. creative works which represent Bonifacio, Ayendy, “A Moment Facing exceptional achievements in their Mileidis Gort, Co-Principal Investigator. the Snow Fall.” The Olivetree Review. fields. Recipients of the award receive a Documenting emergent bilinguals’ 53 (Spring, 2013): 27. Print. $20,000 research grant and a $3,000 educational resources (DEBER) across honorarium to pursue their scholarly elementary school and home contexts: Gort, Mileidis and Ryan W. Pontier. activity. A pilot study and mentoring partnership “Exploring bilingual pedagogies in dual (Sarah Gallo, PI). 2014 College of Theresa Delgadillo and Miranda language early childhood classrooms.” Education and Human Ecology Seed Martinez, both Associate Professors Language and Education 27.3 (2013): Grant Competition, The Ohio State in the Department of Comparative 223-245. Print. University ($20,000). Studies, are part of the Editorial Group Grinstead, J., P. Lintz, M. Vega- for Mujeres Talk, hosted by the OSU Victoria Muñoz won the 2014 Mendoza, J. De la Mora, M. Cantú- Knowledge Bank. Mujeres Talk is an Northeast Modern Languages Sánchez, and B. Flores-Avalos. online, interdisciplinary, edited and Association’s Women and Gender “Evidence of Optional Infinitive Verbs in moderated forum for the circulation Studies Caucus “Best Essay in Women the Spontaneous Speech of Spanish- and discussion of original research, and Gender Studies Award” for her Speaking Children With SLI.” Lingua 140 commentary and creative work in paper, “Female Translators and Their (2014): 52-66. Print. brief and diverse formats such as blog Detractors: Theories of Early Modern essays, multimedia presentations and Translation in Development.” Grinstead, J., A. Baron, M. Vega- short video. mujerestalk.org. Mendoza, J. De la Mora, M. Cantú- Miguel Villalona-Calero, professor of Sánchez, and B. Flores. Tense Marking Ana DelSarto, Associate Professor, internal medicine and of pharmacology and Spontaneous Speech Measures Spanish and Portuguese, is editor and division director of medical in Spanish SLI: A Discriminant Function of alter/nativas: revista de estudios oncology, was elected as Fellow of Analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, culturales latinoamericanos. Alter/ the American Association for the and Hearing Research, 56 (February, nativas is a new, biannual, peer- Advancement of Science (AAAS) for 2013): 1-12. Print. reviewed, online scholarly journal distinguished contributions in the associated with the Center for Latin field of experimental therapeutics, Grinstead, J., D. McCurley, T. Pratt, American Studies at The Ohio State developing novel therapeutics and P. Obregon, and B. Flores. “The University. alternativas.osu.edu. conducting clinical trials for translational Semantics of the Tense Deficit in Child research in cancer patients. Spanish SLI.” In Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams.

Spring 23 Autumn 2013 Graduates

Associate’s Skyler A. Siemer USA BA Criminology BS Shawn F. Spencer USA Mechanical Engr Name Citizen Degree Major MECENG Kurstie S. Bevelhymer- BS USA AA Psychology Anita K. Stewart USA General Business Rangel BUSADM Kelsey J. Torres USA BA Communication Bachelor’s Jonathan D. Tremmel USA BA Economics Consumer and Maria E. Aguirre USA BA Art Andrea R. Ulloa USA BSHEC Fam Financial Svcs Vaughn L. Armstrong USA BA Criminology Joel J. Vega USA BA Biology Adrian A. Barrientes USA BFA Art Miriam E. Velez- Kevin J. Bernardicius USA BS Biology USA BS Psychology Bermudez Human Dev Shalaya M. Brown USA BSHEC BS Industrial and and Family Sc Jorge Veloz USA INDSYS Systems Engr Shelby Castillo USA BA History Justin V. Warvel USA BSHEC Biology Shannon M. Chapman USA BSHRS Health Sci Prgm James D. Clark USA BSAGR Prof Golf Mgmt Gilberto J. Covarrubias USA BA Economics Master’s Alison M. Cummins USA BA Music MS Edu:Teaching Jenan M. Berrios USA Joseph P. Deliz USA BA English TEDU and Learning Jazmin Diaz USA BA Linguistics Electrical and Ramiro J. Duarte USA MS Sport and Leisure Comp Engr Tyler A. Forster USA BSEDU Studies Physical Activity Catalina Fernandez CRI MA Bryan Freitas USA BA English and Edu Svcs BS Nancy Huarachi Horticulture and Antonio M. Garabis USA Marketing BOL MS BUSADM Morejon Crop Science Eduardo Garcia-Aleman USA BA Communication Food, Agri and Angelica M. Huerta USA MS Sport and Leisure Biological Engr Christopher M. Gomez USA BSEDU Studies Robert C. Orellana USA MPH Public Health (MPH) Computer Science Comp. & Veterinary Keith T. Gonzalez Bonzo USA BSCSE Ruby M. Pina Mimbela PER MS and Engr Medicine Michael A. Gutierrez USA BA Economics Steven A. Ramirez USA MS Mechanical Engr Kevin D. Hall USA BS Biology Master of Business Daniela M. Swedarsky BRA MBA Human Dev Admin Emily L. Hostetler USA BSHEC and Family Sc Physical Activity Christopher M. Torres USA MA Jose Interiano USA BS Psychology and Edu Svcs MS Edu:Teaching Lewis S. Johnson USA BA Anthropology Jill N. Twersky USA Kevin R. Kelleher USA BA Criminology TEDU and Learning Computer Science Karla M. Lopez-Recio USA BA Psychology Diego S. Zaccai ARG MS Fashion and Retail and Engr Diandra C. McGuire USA BSHEC Studies Human Dev Rebecca A. Molnar USA BSHEC Doctorate and Family Sc Andrea C. Cordoba Business Logistics Dino Pandolfi- COL PHD USA BA Biology Arenas Engr de-Rinaldis Aaron D. Avery USA JD Law Shelby M. Parsons USA BA Neuroscience Biomedical Scs Fashion and Caroline J. Dietz USA PHD Amethyst S. Robinson USA BSHEC Grad Program Retail Studies Eddie F. Gomez Food, Agri and Maximillian C. Robles USA BA International Studies CRI PHD Barrantes Biological Engr Itzia V. Rojo Lesnick USA BA Criminology Natalia Higuita-Castro COL PHD Biomedical Engr Industrial and Jose L. Rossi PER BSINDSYS Claudia H. Kuniyoshi PER PHD Entomology Systems Engr Hayes D. Merritt USA PHD Physics Marirose A. Russo USA BSEDU English Danielle R. Olden USA PHD History Michelle R. Salas USA BS Biology Rudolph B. Perkins USA PHD Mathematics BS Nolan T. Salazar USA Accounting BUSADM Vanessa L. Roig USA JD Law Spanish Jessica B, Serpa USA BA Psychology Daniela Salcedo PER PHD and Portuguese Rosanna M. Sguerra USA BA Spanish

24 quepasa.osu.edu Filmmaker Alex Rivera On Growing Up, Border Narratives, and DREAMers

Ohio State welcomed Director Alex Rivera, whose film Sleep Dealer is scheduled their safety. So there’s a sense of for re-release this May. Following his talk on working with DREAMers and the a very different world out there—I US-Mexico border, he sat down for an extended interview with ¿Qué Pasa? Editor don’t understand how exactly. Theresa Rojas. What follows is a brief excerpt. TR: In discussing Sleep Dealer, my thinking about different ways in class mentioned going to the bar which political power is manifested and getting plugged in for a shot through different forms of speech. of “Tek.” Tek is tequila, but it’s also technology, right? TR: Stuart Hall as in coding/decoding AR: [LAUGHS] Yeah! Sometimes, some Stuart Hall? of the metaphors in the film are AR: Exactly, and so in the early 90s profound and meant to inspire there was a lot of intellectual reflection on our contemporary production around questions of tradition and some of them are media and political power so that just silly. was what I ended up studying at Hampshire College. If you could TR: On that note, what about the big convince faculty to let you do it, dude who is all connected and you could do it, so I switched from is his own one-man band--is that writing papers to making videos. what’s happening? It moved me. I was able to do the AR: [LAUGHS] Well he becomes a work of painting and drawing in a kind of location in and of himself. sense. I began to do the work of He was used a bunch of times in a musician and of a writer, so all the montage. That tells you you’re of these different forms that I liked back in the bar; instead of using TR: So you’re from New York? individually as a child could all an exterior shot of the bar, you AR: Yes, I was born in New York play simultaneously. see him and you know where you City. My folks lived in Queens are. That’s his kind of function when I was a little kid and then TR: These are the beginnings, right? spatially in the film. Obviously I we moved up state to near AR: Yeah, and then...my dad is grew up with the bar scene in Star Poughkeepsie where IBM has from Peru and my mom is from Wars. It was a kind of Holy Grail of its world headquarters. My mom Brooklyn, raised mostly in New cinematic delight. I have no idea worked for IBM and so dad would Jersey. So I grew up in this why exactly Memo has to go to commute in and out of the city. bicultural house. I didn’t really go that workshop to get the nodes That’s where I really grew up and to Peru at all as a kid, but we had put in; in terms of the actual story went to high school—public high little Peruvian icons around the logic, there’s no need there, like school in upstate New York. When house: empty bottles of Inca-Pisco he could just go to the workshop! I was about 14, I met Pete Seeger and these little stuffed llamas. There’s no real reason. and then I started to think about All kinds of stuff that other kids ways to give life meaning by trying didn’t have. The most powerful TR: That bar seems important in to involve oneself in political and connection to Peru for me was that although Memo sees the social justice through making through the telephone. In the 80s exhausted node worker getting culture, artwork, and music. In when I was growing up and my a shot of Tek, he winds up in that college, I wanted to study music, grandmother was still alive it was very position. but there weren’t a lot of classes, the age of Sendero Luminoso AR: You’re right, it does sort of so I ended up in classes focusing and violent civil war. I grew up in foreshadow having his life drained on media broadly: television, upstate New York in these rolling out and all of that, but again a lot prints, advertising, and politics hills and very serene in one of the impulse of that scene is just and power. I read theorists like sense, but in another sense the to have fun and to do that kind of Stuart Hall or Judith Butler and telephone was a way that my dad homage or try to do something Foucault and Paul Virilio; people was very worried for his family/for with that kind of Star Wars scene continued on next page

Spring 25 I grew up loving. Then thinking one of these images that takes That’s the BIG hope, but I also about the conceit that I had of your breath away. It’s like seeing hope that they can eat some the nodes and those plugs in the end of Planet of the Apes in popcorn and enjoy. Have a laugh the body that could serve many reality. That’s what it looks like. and go on a ride. functions. I like the idea of the Rub your eyes and you’re seeing machine-body interface being this 15-20-foot all metal wall rolling TR: How about in terms of the work like the interfaces we have with out into the surf. Why anyone on the DREAMers? technology: a USB port or a would build a wall in the ocean is AR: My experiences with them and firewire port. They can do many hard to comprehend. That place learning from them has been things. I like the idea of these is very simply the contradiction about three years now and plugs in the body in all these between nature embodied and it’s been fascinating. I’ve been characters in the future; they the ocean, and the sand and working in immigration space for could be used to work, play, for politics and violence and this about 20 years and in dialogue making love, for getting a kind kind of terror of this wall and with different undocumented of stimulant experience, and so that the two are so stark. That communities for 10 or 12 years off in this bar is when you start to contradiction embodies a lot of and on. Undocumented folks in see that technology playing with the problematics of the the US have gone from a position multiple roles. border itself. in which they believe that hiding is the way forward; when you’d TR: Your presentation focused TR: What is it that you hope folks see them on TV their faces would on different kinds of border walk away with after watching be blacked out, they’d use a narratives and the border as a Sleep Dealer? false name, all of that for safety. testing ground. AR: Sleep Dealer took 10 years to About three or four years ago, that AR: It goes back to reflecting on my make and I hope that’s reflected flipped. It’s the young people, the dad’s and my condition growing in the object. I hope it delivers DREAMers that made that switch up in Upstate New York, but some of the usual pleasures—a and said we’re going to come out connected to Peru through beautiful visual experience. I of the shadows and it was a very story, family, and media. I tried to hope viewers go on a ride and risky move but I think their theory talk about that reality in my first experience a kind of adventure. was if we stay in the shadows video in 1994, to try to describe I also hope that there’s 10 years nothing’s ever going to change. that sense of being here but worth of meditation. Reflecting So they started to come out first also being there; being here on the drone pilot for example by having public coming outs but rejecting here after having in the context of the drone wars where they would just say “I’m rejected back there. So this kind today can be meaningful and undocumented and this is why of sense of either I’m in both spark conversation. Reflecting and this is how,” then ultimately places or I’m in neither place, on the core idea of the remote getting themselves arrested and right? The Latino life or that worker, to me the Holy Grail in confronting the state in that type recently immigrated life is in a kind that metaphor, the thing that I was of encounter—getting arrested on of state of suspension between aspiring to, is showing a system purpose and forcing the state to two places and the kind of best in which you merge the image of make a decision, then forcing the rhetoric or best metaphors to the undocumented worker with state to start to explain itself. describe that third space that’s the inherent logic of transnational in between is the border. So corporations which are more TR: What would you like folks to even though my dad didn’t have than happy to replace American know about you? a visceral connection with the workers with outsourced workers. AR: I’m so grateful that folks like you US-Mexico border—he came on I wanted the audience to say and Frederick Aldama take time a plane to the US—I came to the well maybe it’s not the immigrant to think about that work. I’m just sense that he lived in a kind of that’s the problem. Maybe the so grateful for that. My personal mental borderlands. That was one problem is the way we conceive prediction is that the three big thing that started to draw me into of labor in this society; the way in thoughts: remote work, remote thinking about that border. which corporations are allowed war, and the computer entering any freedom they want to twist the body and allowing these new TR: You showed the image I asked and contort space and time to forms of communication will come about—Border Beach. You extract any kind of profit they true. I need to make more movies mentioned that it’s one of your want. Maybe that’s the thing we about that and have more fun with most beautiful places? need to confront, not the guy these ideas. AR: Yeah, I remember the first time mowing somebody’s lawn, but the I went to Border Beach, it’s just billionaires inside the mansions.

26 quepasa.osu.edu Northern Triangle of Violence Dr. René Olate and Latin American Youth Gangs

By Annalisa Perez, Sophomore and ODI Morrill Scholar, College of Social Work

The work of Dr. René Olate, Assistant Professor of Social gang members are extremely negative. “The majority of Work at The Ohio State University, focuses on youth gang these nations hate [them] because they have done horrible, members in Central America, especially in Guatemala, inhuman things. So, it’s complicated to say we want to create Honduras, and El Salvador. These countries make up what is a program with the resources of [people’s] taxes. I’m sure considered the “Northern Triangle of Violence,” where there most of these kids have done very stupid things, and very exist numerous problems with the way the issue of youth vicious things, but I think everyone deserves an alternative gangs is understood and handled. to just going to prison…It’s difficult to overcome this complicated perception of who they Dr. Olate found that the government’s are.” He says, “It is necessary to have current policy of heightened more social workers in community punishment for gang-related interventions and positive youth crimes and increased development initiatives.” It expenditure on police in high- is essential to “support the risk areas is not effective. He social capital of the poor explains: “What we have communities, regarding seen are more youth gang sports and churches. This is members in prison. In spite the work of social workers of all repression missions, and not the work of more we [still] have more police.” youth gang members in the community, so [this Dr. Olate is studying the strategy] is not working.” association between In addition, prevention the level of violence and programs are targeted at the types of discipline in middle-class children, who Latin American households, are far less likely to become specifically the reinforcement involved with gangs than those of Machismo ideals through in poorer communities. reprimand by mothers. “There are some explanations for violence that Youth gangs are a complicated are related to cultural patterns,” he says. problem. Joining gangs and selling “It is very important for me to understand drugs is an appealing option for impoverished how this violence youth because it offers them money, prestige, access is reproduced.” to drugs, power, and respect, which are all things that are difficult to find in poorer communities, where poverty, Olate’s passion for marginalized Latino youth is evident. “It’s violence, and single-parenthood are very common. “It’s a a huge challenge because it is not easy to work in these systemic problem,” he says. “It is the result of discrimination, communities, but at the same time, if we are not influencing poverty, and violence, and people trying to associate, get what they are doing, it will be impossible to produce social protection, and to survive.” All too often, this road leads change. When you have the trust of youth gang members young men to prison or death. and have very good intentions, I think you can produce some changes.” “You are not going to eliminate youth gangs,” Dr. Olate continues, “It’s absurd to say that.” It is more effective to focus resources on reducing the negative outcomes and increasing resources for youth growing up in poorer communities. However, people’s attitudes toward youth

Spring 27 Renata Baptista El Papel De Una Mujer Latina En Educación

Por Brittany Lynner, Sophomore, Department of Psychology, Minor in Spanish

Renata Baptista creció en Miami, Florida, se graduó de la lo que mi familia esperaba….y es todavía algo que tengo Universidad de Miami, y ahora es estudiante postgraduada que negociar con ellos todos los días: ¿por qué estás en en el programa de asuntos estudiantiles en OSU. Durante Ohio? ¿Por qué estás estudiando? ¿Por qué necesitas una maestría? ¿Por qué no te casas? ¿Por qué no tienes niños? Y es un mensaje que todavía todos los días yo enfrento.”

Con los mensajes de su familia siempre en cuenta, su transición de ser estudiante postgraduada era difícil al principio. No obstante, los ejemplos de otros proveyeron una perspectiva nueva. Renata confiesa: “Cuando entré en la Universidad, de verdad, empecé a tomar clases y vi a profesoras, y como mentores, que eran mujeres, que eran bien fuertes, bien inteligentes, y sabían cómo hablar para si mismas y eso no era algo que yo podía hacer en ese “Es importante seguir descubriendo y aprendiendo de diferentes personas y diferentes culturas.”

tiempo.” Estas interacciones con mujeres profesionales, con el contraste fuerte de los mensajes de desigualdad entre los sexos en su propia familia, le llevó a expresar un enfoque feminista. “Me gusta primero trabajar con mujeres y mujeres que están estudiando. Yo creo que el viaje de una mujer en el colegio es diferente al de un hombre…. necesitan oportunidades de desenvolver su identidad como una mujer que a veces reciben diferentes mensajes de su familia, de la escuela, y de la sociedad.”

Aparte de su enfoque en los derechos de la mujer, a Renata le importan la diversidad. “Es importante seguir descubriendo y aprendiendo de diferentes personas y diferentes culturas de todo el lugar, de todo el mundo. Yo de verdad tengo una pasión de entender a gente que son toda su vida, ha experimentado los obstáculos inherentes diferentes que yo y ayudar a otros que también aprenden asociados con el papel de una mujer latina. Según Renata: de ellos.” “Recibí muchos diferentes mensajes de mi familia sobre Ahora que Renata pasa cada día ayudando a los estudiantes el lugar de la mujer de ser educada y ser un miembro de universitarios, es con la comprensión que ella podría ‘ser la la sociedad. En mi familia, yo soy la primera que estoy persona que puede influirles. Es posible que su influencia estudiando, y ser la primera mujer en una familia latina tiene sea más importante de lo que ella se da cuenta. Su sonrisa un significado bien importante y bien sutil que a veces otras es inolvidable y la más grande cuando refiere a una foto de gentes no entienden.” Renata dice que en una familia latina, sus mentores que está en su escritorio. Renata habla con la educación no es una necesidad—el entrenamiento de entusiasmo sobre el impacto positivo que sus mentores han llegar a ser esposa es más importante. “Todavía hoy es un tenido en su vida, y ahora, no es una sorpresa que cada día proceso que yo he tomado un pasaje muy diferente de deja un legado similar.

28 quepasa.osu.edu Felipe Castelblanco Media Artist, Educator, Activist

By Victoria Muñoz, PhD Candidate, Department of English

“So my ideas just come from questions: asked me if I was legal—I just became At what point do we own this land? a U.S. citizen recently, and I was How do concepts get played out in the thinking, what does it mean to be part world? How do we embrace them and of this country, to sort of engage with feel them?” this symbol?”

Questions of citizenship and A unique characteristic of the artist is belonging are one lens through his combination of performance with which Castelblanco’s work may be activism. During his time in Columbus, experienced. One piece featured Castelblanco also created an art gallery, Mote 078, which resides at OSU and at a second location on High Street, in partnership with Ohio Exterminating, Co., one of Columbus’s oldest companies. “I am still thinking about opening a third space,” he adds. “I invite local, international, and regional artists. I am interested in using those spots as the closest they come to the frontier of public space.”

at the exhibit, “Driftless,” portrays a With his interest in interacting with the young man (Castelblanco) on a raft as community in socially responsive ways, he drifts through bodies of water and Castelblanco occupies the dual roles of arrives at the city, a kind of borderline. artist and activist. He is also passionate The artist filmed segments of the work about teaching. During his residence during a period of geographical and at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA in personal transition: “I started filming this 2011, Castelblanco witnessed firsthand in Colombia, and I moved closer to the the enormous benefits provided by border of Panama, then in Maine, then social outreach art programs, through in Columbus. I wanted to have this kind the youth group, Jovenes Sin Nombres, of ending here.” which provided artistic education to first-generation Latinos. The film’s conclusion captures a spontaneous encounter between Castelblanco would love to see similar initiatives come to Columbus. Felipe Castelblanco, a native the artist and his world, as onlookers He believes that educators should Colombian, former Pittsburgher, and converge around the raft emerging be involved in community service OSU’s 2013-2014 John Fergus Family onshore. “The encounter with people and especially in the conversation Post-MFA Fellow, came to Columbus on was an accident,” he explains. “It just surrounding the DREAM Act. “It is invitation to create socially engaged art happened. My initial piece was to end activism in another sense,” he explains. projects. His art, recently on exhibit at by the gallery as an alternative way to “It’s about democratizing knowledge the OSU Urban Arts Space, represents travel. But it drew alternate attention: through a blend of community, art, a body of work that constantly engages police, fire fighters. But it’s interesting, and action.” with questions about place making and them telling me that this was not legal. identity. “I am in dialogue with these But something had to be illegal. They local contexts,” Castelblanco explains. asked me where I come from. They

Spring 29 Jenni Rivera Dead Latina Icon

By Dr. Amanda L. Matousek, Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

I discovered Selena Quintanilla during a seventh grade Extending the Dialogue dance. At the time the closest thing to Tejano or regional While writing my dissertation on border women and violence, Mexican music that a Cleveland suburbanite could enjoy I found out that Jenni Rivera, “The Diva of Banda Music,” died tragically in a plane crash on December 9th, 2012 (coincidentally my birthday) after performing to a sold-out crowd in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. The city where I taught English and first listened to Jenni Rivera and norteño music would begin memorializing her that day. I did not initially see Jenni Rivera’s afterlife as a potential field of inquiry, and I did not want my research to add to the necrophiliac obsession that Parédez describes. However, I was perturbed by comparisons in the news media declaring Jenni Rivera more Mexican than Selena, or projecting that her death will be bigger than The Queen of Tejano’s. I decided to extend the dialogue surrounding dead Latina icons by following Jenni Rivera’s distinct trajectory through my own research. In the year since her death, memories of la diva de la banda have generated a host of commemorative acts and products that honor, celebrate, problematize, and mythologize her life and career from memorial concerts to her own brand of tequila, La Gran Señora.

The Second Life of Jenni Rivera On October 12th, 2013, Jenni Rivera landed a cover on Billboard Magazine with Justino Águila’s article: “The Second Life of Jenni Rivera: Managing the Legacy of Regional Mexican’s Biggest Star.” In the piece, Víctor González, Rivera’s former distributer at the Fonovisa label emphasizes that “Jenni was heading toward something big and people were Selena’s English hits “Dreaming of You” and “I Could wanted more. There was Fall in Love,” Latin pop songs lightly sprinkled with Spanish. this momentum, a major That small dose was all it took. I instantly became obsessed force. People will continue with Spanish and Selena, and my 13 year-old self saw these looking for her in one form or new possibilities as an escape from what I considered a another.” My work examines terribly bland Midwestern existence. I can now pinpoint how people continue looking the moment, in that sweaty gymnasium between TLC and for Rivera in order to form Backstreet Boys songs, where my passion for studying the her identity as well as their Latina experience was born. own. Inspired by her album, “Joyas prestadas,” I titled Years later, as a graduate student, I was simultaneously my presentation delivered pleased and jealous to learn that Latino Studies scholar at the 5th Crossing Over Deborah Parédez published Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, International Symposium at and the Perfomance of Memory (2009), which examines the Cleveland State University, obsession with tragically fallen Latina bodies like Selena, “Memorias prestadas,” or Eva Perón, and Frida Kahlo. Parédez studies Selenidad—“the borrowed memories, to highlight how memories of Rivera can spaces opened up by the shell or sign of Selena” after her be used to (re)define her image and latinidad more generally. death—to demonstrate how acts of remembering the Tejano superstar have constructed and shaped Latino identities .

30 quepasa.osu.edu Rivera’s television show, “I Love Jenni,” public memorials, regional Mexican artists focused on singing romantic ballads. Youtube videos and more, frame her as a Mexican-American, Rivera’s fans could relate to her struggles and gather mother, performer, and entrepreneur that vacillates between strength from her edgy lyrics. Rivera describes herself as the rebellious parrandera, or party girl, and saintly mother of five. These contradictory identities align with my previous research regarding what I have called coatlicuedad. Based on the Aztec deity symbolizing fertility and death, Coatlicue, or the one with the serpent skirt, I first used this term to refer to the bipartite representation of Mexican and Mexican-American women in border fiction as both maternal creators and destroyers of life. The shaping and management of Jenni Rivera’s afterlife exemplifies this paradoxical relationship between love and cruelty through commemorations as a dedicated mother and devious performer for the Mexican drug cartels.

In the year since her death, memories of la diva de la banda have generated a host of commemorative acts and products that honor, celebrate, problematize, and mythologize her life and career.

Rivera as Troubled Role Model an overweight woman singing corridos with men: “It was Despite these conflicting imaginings of Jenni Rivera, she difficult to get my songs on the radio because I refused to remains a positive role model for her fans because of her fit into the mold of the typical Latina singer. I should have persistence. In her autobiography, Unbreakable, Rivera is been younger, thinner, softer, quieter, dumber. In the Latino emphatic about the fact that she worked tirelessly for every community, female singers were supposed to be beautiful opportunity. Born in Long Beach, California to Mexican and super skinny, and their music was supposed to be immigrants and raised in a family of performers including silly. Latina singers were meant to be looked at and not father Pedro and brother Lupillo, Rivera struggled through really heard.” failed marriages, domestic abuse, and rape. Propelled by her entrepreneurial spirit and motivation to provide for her Whether a God-fearing mother or the badass mariposa del children, the outspoken Rivera broke traditional boundaries barrio, Jenni Rivera’s voice will continue to resound in the of female mexicanidad within the masculine realm of banda minds and memories of her fans, especially those women and norteño music. Rivera drew from her personal life to inspired by her rebelliousness and courage. write songs in order to distinguish herself from other female

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