Nepantlah 2024-2025
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
This introductory workshop is intended to help our families begin to examine and define Chancla Culture. When we say “Chancla Culture,” we aren’t just referring to corporal punishment. We mean the normalization of harmful and power-over parenting strategies in Latinx/Chicanx homes. We will uncover the roots of Chancla Culture, the many ways it manifests, explore and discuss social & systemic factors that contribute to its prevalence, and give guidance on how we can move towards healthier parenting practices for our familias. The movement to #EndChanclaCulture will take all of us doing our part to unlearn the legacy of physical, psychological, and emotional violence that has impacted our familias for generations. This workshop is our invitatoin to begin breaking those cycles.
Learning Objective 1 Understand the historical, cultural, and social context behind how certain harmful practices developed among the Latinx community
Learning Objective 2 Define “Chancla Culture” and reflect on the ways we might have witnessed #ChanclaCulture manifest in our familias, as children and adults
Learning Objective 3 Examine how children are developmentally impacted by parenting practices that have been historically adapted and normalized within the Latinx community
BIO
Leslie Priscilla is a first generation non-Black Xicana with Rarámuri lineage. She is a mother to three bicultural children and a certified Parent Coach with over 16 years of experience. Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families locally, nationally and internationally via Latinx Parenting. Leslie’s vision is of a movement rooted in children's rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families towards liberation.