ABSTRACT
This chapter will focus on my work with the Promotoras from Planned Parenthood Los Angeles and their Familias Diversas, Unidas y Sanas program. Taught in Spanish, this curriculum engages mostly Latina/o(x) parents in queer topics with the intention of having participants become allies and advocates for queer youth. Utilizing an interdisciplinary lens, this chapter will focus on making sense of exchanges between Promotoras and parents as they come to newly shared meanings and understandings about the lives of queer Latina/o(x) youth. It will highlight the difficulty the Spanish language poses to engage in this critical work as well as the role Latina mothering plays as forms of pedagogy, acceptance, and advocacy. The work of the Promotoras has the capacity to provide community-based organizations tools and resources they can draw from to engage in conversations about race, gender, and sexuality in Latina/o(x) communities that aim to support queer Latina/o(x) youth.
