Abstract
This article examines how working-class Mexican and Chicana mothers teach Muxerista and feminist values in the home. I argue that Muxerista mothering is a praxis—a living pedagogy rooted in memory, political commitment, and queer chosen kinship. Drawing on eight testimonios I collected, I center the voices of mothers and their hijxs who identify their maternal figures as their first teachers of feminisms. I introduce a model of Muxerista mothering I developed by highlighting thematic intersections in the testimonios of hijxs and mothers. Muxerista mothering teaches emancipatory belonging, accountability, visionary imagination, multidimensional lucha, and enacting transformative justice. I ground my project in Muxerista pedagogy, identity, and politics. Through the stories of mothers like Del, Juana, Blanca, and grandmothers like Mari and Betty, I show how Muxerista teachings are passed down and used to inform the radical visions hijxs carry into our organizing, scholarship, and everyday life. This article contributes to Chicana and Latina feminist scholarship by documenting how feminisms are formed not only in classrooms and public movements but also within the intimate space of the home.