📂 Applied Learning Labs
📚: Chicana Feminist Thought
- 🗓️ Study Log (Quick check-ins, updates, timestamps)
🤖 Working With the Machine (AI Collaboration Tips)
(NotebookLM prompts + how to use AI to explore deeper)
- Start with your intention.
→ Tell the AI what kind of support you're looking for: insight, simplification, emotional processing, connection to real-life issues, etc.
- Be specific about the module or section.
→ Use language like:
“Based on Module 3 from Chicana Feminist Thought, summarize key themes about community organizing.”“What questions would help me apply this chapter to my real life?”
- Use the AI to reflect back, not just explain.
→ Ask:
“What feels unresolved in this module?”“What resistance patterns show up here that might show up in me?”
- Layer the prompts.
→ First: “What is the core concept here?”
→ Then: “Can you help me turn that into a journaling prompt or creative caption?”
→ Then: “How could this shape how I set boundaries at work?”
- Use it like a mirror—not a machine.
→ Talk to the AI the way you’d talk to a mentor or ritual partner. Let it help you reframe, not just reword.
- Name the text and the moment.
→ Example: “I just read Module 5 of Chicana Feminist Thought. I felt called out by the section on internalized oppression. Can you help me unpack that gently?”
🗃️ File Cabinet
(PDFs, ZIPs, downloads for self-study or template reuse)
Links to module and NotebookLM available upon request for personal study only. Book not included publicly out of respect for the author. Contact ohheyy@ohheyymj.com for links/access.
- 📘 Full Book
- 📄 Module 1: Identity Oppression
- 📄 Module 2: Self Definition
- 📄 Module 3: Activism Community
- 📄 Module 4: White Feminism Critique
- 📄 Module 5: Legacy Reclamation
- 📄 Module 6: Course Companion
📓 NotebookLM
📝 Spark Notes
(Overview of the book + your personal why + study intention)
Chicana Feminist Thought is more than a collection of essays—it’s a living record of resistance, reflection, and reclamation.It gathers voices that were historically dismissed and threads them into a framework that reshapes how we understand feminism, identity, labor, and power through the lens of Chicanas who refused to be erased.
This book exists to preserve what institutions tried to forget—
To center survival as scholarship—
To document a movement that was built in kitchens, on picket lines, and across generations of silenced brilliance.
It deserves to be studied not for prestige, but for continuity.
This guide was created so others could approach that legacy with care, context, and room to reflect.
I studied it deeply—not to explain it, but to offer a path into it.
Go make meaning from here.
🧵 Core Concepts
💬 AI Prompt Ideas
(Try these as conversation openers—with yourself, your AI, or your community.)
- “The way the author uses metaphor here—what does that say about how power feels instead of just how it works?”
- “There’s some real tension showing up—what’s the heartbeat of it, and how does it still show up now?”
- “What ideas about feminism does this complicate—not just challenge, but actually make messier in a good way?”
- “If I were turning this into a series—maybe captions or short reflections—what's the throughline I’d keep returning to?”
- “Why does this section hit different if you’ve been the ‘first’ in your family to unlearn something?”
- “What kind of journaling could help this chapter stick instead of just pass through?”
🧩 Key Concepts
- Cultural scripts define silence as survival
- Internal resistance can mirror systemic oppression
- Feminism = not a universal, but a translation of truth
- Identity as a negotiation, not a category
- Language itself is a battleground of memory
📎 Links & Resources
- 🔗 Connected Works:
- Podcast: Latino USA – The Invisible Labor of Healing
- Book: Loving in the War Years by Cherríe Moraga
- Toolkit: Decolonize Your Syllabus
- MJ Note: Add this to “Latinx Healing Systems” portal later
“ ” Quotes to Sit With
- “To live without memory is to live without roots.”
- “Feminism isn’t just theory—it’s translation across pain.”
- “I was never meant to be neutral. I was made to be witnessed.”
- “When the text doesn’t name you, write over it.”
- “We don’t need permission to define ourselves—we just need space.”
💭 Loose Ends
A space to note anything worth revisiting in the future
- (Example):
- What does “institutional invisibility” look like in corporate work now?
- Ask AI: can we build a map of resistance language across modules?
- Consider turning this into a Notion micro-course
- Cross-reference “feminized labor” to modern remote burnout
- Look up Gloria Anzaldúa’s poetry again—apply to writing voice
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