Qrts In Fresno

Three decades after her death, Selena continues to inspire reflection on identity, culture, language, and representation. This year, two scholars from Fresno State edited and published The Selena Reader: Remembering the Queen of Tejano.

California is replacing “César Chávez Day” with “Farm Workers’ Day” as a way to honor the thousands of “women and men whose hard work feeds our nation, and whose courage… has fueled a persistent fight to secure essential worker rights.

Words as a bridge across territories, memories, and languages. Fresno Poet Laureate Aideed Medina and Mexican poet Minerva Reynosa bring to life Hablando Lenguas.

In a climate of political polarization and rising hate incidents and crimes in the United States, the Mobile Museum of Tolerance is visiting Roosevelt High School in Fresno, California.

Artist and scholar Lizbeth De la Cruz Santana presents a living, community-based project that weaves together muralism, storytelling, and activism.

The acclaimed Gen X Chicana author and current Fresno Poet Laureate transforms experiences of pain, memory, and hope into deeply spiritual poetry. Her work portrays Fresno as a living city, rooted in the Yokut people and shaped by agricultural labor.