brief introduction about me, Yara Cipatlic Hidalgo

Hello fellow CHST 404 class members! My full name is Yara Cipatlic Hidalgo: I am a Liberal Studies and Chicana/o Studies double major with a concentration in Math. My goal is to start off my career being an elementary school teacher and then a secondary school math teacher. I am a passionate for learning and for providing intellectual insight, and in an educational setting it is a reciprocal effect: the teacher becomes the student and the student becomes the teacher. Anywho, I love both of my majors, specially Chicana/o Studies because I have gained not just intellectual but emotional insight about who I am, as a learner, as a sister, a daughter, as a Mexican, and as a Chicana. I am extremely excited for this class, and learning more about Chicana Feminist theories! I have taken a history of sexuality class, but we briefly talked about the division between “heterosexual” Chicanas and Chicana Lesbians, so I am looking forward to learning more about the internal conflicts that created division within Chicanas and Chicanos in the movement.