This book unearths ancestral wisdom to address the needs of oppressed women in both the Global South and Global North. Focusing on Latinx womxn, it empowers through decoloniality, liberation,
mujerismo
, and
nepantlismo
. As such, Latinx womxn compose their
testimonios
, engage in critical consciousness, and commit to global liberation.
Mujerismo
—a dissident daughter of liberation theology—is a Latinx womanism with anti-patriarchal, anticolonial, anti-neocolonial, and antiracial-gendered colonial orientations.
Mujeristas
appropriate cultural/religious/spiritual symbols to construct empowering new meanings for decolonization and liberation. Feminist liberation practices assist in this process. When Latinx womxn’s immigration accentuates inhabiting the cultural borderlands, they enter
Nepantla—
a
place in between—
to reclaim themselves and to heal soul wounds and trauma.  Rooted in the
Nahuatl
concept of collective transformation,
Nepantla
encourages the development of psychospiritual abilities.  As Latinx womxn engage in
, they awaken their spiritual faculties to become instruments of courage, resistance, revolution, love, and hope.
This book will be valuable to researchers, therapists, and educators interested in the practice of feminist therapy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of
Women & Therapy.