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Latinx Geography (LxG) is an interdisciplinary field that follows an activist tradition and looks across borders to examine the intersectional identities of the people who can be embraced under the umbrella term Latinx (Muñoz and Ybarra 2019). LxG has nuanced and complicated how place can be understood beyond borders to recognize the trans-national/ -regional/ -local kinship and solidarity that eschew positivistic imaginings of place. As an expansive field, how do emergent scholars teach Latinx Geography? With fascism, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigenous, and other oppressive forces on the rise, we recognize a desire and the need to hold space for ourselves as facilitators, and the students in our classes.

In this panel, we put forth a model of interrelated and interdependent pedagogical techniques to address the following -
* “What is Latinx pedagogy?”:
* How do we teach in moments of struggle - inside and outside of the academy?
* How does a Latinx Pedagogy make space for the co-creation of knowledge(s) in ways that refuse the violences of the academy?
* What is made possible through thinking collectively about a Latinx Pedagogy?
* What does it mean to challenge the broader discipline of Geography through a Latinx Pedagogy?

Drawing from almost two (2) years of active engagement during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Latinx Geographies Pedagogies working group emerged as a way to think through the above questions through virtual collaborative spaces of healing. Through an interactive hybrid panel centering co-created knowledge(s), the Latinx Geographies Pedagogies working group will host an active engagement and diálogo. We blur the lines between panelists and participants to model how we can reimagine the pedagogical possibilities that embrace and honor those who came before us, acknowledge our present, and move us juntxs toward a liberatory future.

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