Malflora Collective is a community project dedicated to preserving the everyday  lives, memories, and legacies of Latina/e lesbians. As a US-based collective with transborder roots, our work is guided by a core mission to resist political and institutional erasure, assert our existence, and memorialize our histories for generations to come. We enact this mission by publishing a magazine, podcast, and digital archive centered on Latina/e lesbian histories and cultures within the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

“Malflora” is a term for lesbians that translates to “bad flower.” In 1976, Chicano artist Joey Terrill helped popularize the term with a series of shirts he made for the Christopher Street West pride parade that featured the reclaimed slurs “malflora” and “maricón.” We similarly reclaim the term “malflora” as a source of empowerment and resistance for Latina/e lesbians.