About This Journal
CouRaGeouS Cuentos is a journal including the creative writing of students in classes offered by the Department of Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies. The works published in the journal are by current and former students of CRGS classes, and occasionally the greater Humboldt community.
The journal is published annually with the creative work by students in the spring and fall semesters of each calendar year. The editing of the written works is a collective effort by peer editing by students in the class, the student Teacher Assistant(s) for those semesters, and the class instructor.
Artwork
The hieroglyph (glyphs) artwork was created by Michael Tjoelker, Humboldt State University student.
The glyphs used throughout this Journal were inspired by the Nahuatl hieroglyphs used by the Aztecs in Mesoamerica. The single glyph, tlatoa, denotes speech, important speech, speech spoken by individuals who hold social, political or religious positions of power and thus is worth writing.
This Journal reclaims the glyph to foreground the power of speech, of cuentos and knowledges that students have and further asserts that individual and community ways of knowing are valid and worthy of being written and published. We use two glyphs side by side to represent a dialogue. Orienting four glyphs towards a center is meant to be read as an important community dialogue and highlight the power of speech and conversations within community.