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Cherríe Moraga will be the keynote speaker for our signature event, the Raquel Rubio Goldsmith Lecture in Ethnic, Gender & Transborder Studies, on April 30. The lecture Is a public education event organized annually by the Ethnic, Gender, Transborder Studies & Sociology (EGTSS) Department at Pima Community College.
Cherríe Moraga is a highly acclaimed and internationally known Chicana/Mexican American feminist lesbian writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and cultural activist. She broke onto the national writing scene in 1981 with the landmark text, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, co-edited with another famed Chicana writer, Gloria Anzaldúa. The text was adopted quickly onto reading lists of Ethnic and Gender Studies programs at universities and colleges across the country and has entered the canon. Her work is also widely used in English, Writing, Theater, and Humanities programs. She has published numerous books and collections, for which she has won many prestigious awards (please see bios, below), all of which makes her one of the most influential Chicana thinkers and cultural workers today. Throughout her work, Cherríe Moraga thinks critically about how race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality intersect and interact with each other to critique systems of oppression and to advocate for social justice, el mero mole of the EGTSS Department and our courses. By accepting our invitation, we are deeply honored by her solidarity toward our students, and our community. We look forward to collectively welcoming Cherríe to our College and our city.
This year's event will be combined with a fundraiser for student scholarships sponsored by the EGTSS Department. The lecture is named in honor of a founding faculty member of the college and of Mexican American Studies and Native American Studies at PCC. The lecture and fundraiser will be held at a luncheon on Thursday, April 30, 2026, at the University Park Marriott, Tucson, Arizona.