de la tierra (tatiana) Latina lesbian magazine collection, 1991-2006
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- tatiana de la tierra Latina lesbian magazine collection
- Dates:
- 1991-2006
- Abstract:
- A collection of Latina lesbian magazines donated by bi-cultural writer and activist tatiana de la tierra.
- Extent:
- 0.21 Linear Feet (1 half-size document box)
- Language:
- English Spanish; Castilian
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], tatiana de la tierra Latina lesbian magazine collection, CEMA 167. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection mostly contains issues of Latina lesbian magazines founded by bicultural writer and activist tatiana de la tierra. ConmociĆ³n and Esto No Tiene Nombre were created to stimulate dialogue and creativity within the Latina lesbian community.
Issues include Esto no Tiene Nombre's Vol. 1, No. 1-4; Vol. 2, No. 1, 3-4; Vol. 3, No. 1 and ConmociĆ³n's No. 1-3. Also included is an issue of Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies (Vol. 27, No. 1), a copy of de la tierra's curriculum vitae, and one magazine subscription form for ConmociĆ³n.
- Biographical / historical:
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tatiana de la tierra (Tatiana Barona) (May 14, 1961-July 31, 2012) was a bicultural writer whose work focused on identity, sexuality, and South American memory and reality. de la tierra was born in Villavicencio, Colombia and raised in Miami, Florida after her family immigrated to the United States in 1969. She received an undeclared Associate in Arts degree from Miami-Dade Community College in 1981, before earning a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Florida in 1984.
Throughout the 1990s de la tierra founded, edited, and contributed to the Latina lesbian bilingual publications Esto no Tiene Nombre (1991-1994), ConmociĆ³n (1995-1996), and La telaraƱa. After spending time in Colombia for her health, de la tierra returned to school - completing a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1999 and a Master of Library Science from University at Buffalo (UB) in 2000.
After graduating from UB, de la tierra immediately began a two-year Jean Blackwell Hutson Library Residency at the UB undergraduate library (UGL). Subsequently, UGL hired her as an information literacy librarian. In 2007, de la tierra moved to Long Beach, California to become the Director of Hispanic Services at Inglewood Public Library. She stayed in Long Beach until the time of her death, in 2012.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated by tatiana de la tierra, December 2006.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Mari Khasmanyan and Leonardo Vargas on September 2015.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Lesbianism -- Periodicals
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-04-07 16:31:55 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and may be retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assignees for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], tatiana de la tierra Latina lesbian magazine collection, CEMA 167. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062