Projects
Here you’ll find a selection of public scholarship and collaborations.
I had the honor of being part of the editorial team for Gender & History's special issue, Engendering Carcerality, and co-authoring the introduction with labor and gender scholar, Eileen Boris, and legal historian, Sarah Butler.
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A short academic blog post about Black and Brown racial intimacy through banda music in Southern California. Co-authored with Sarah Hinojos (CUNY).
My journey in academia started with my love for creative work in fashion media. This reading list is for those interested in understanding fashion, beauty, media, and aesthetic movements through a POC, queer, and feminist lens.
This project includes:
a reading list
public syllabus
and other resources
..coming soon.
Culture is all around us, and I invite you to join me on a soundscape journey through the swap meets of the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles. These informal markets, often seen as just places to find bargains, actually bring together diverse communities—black, brown, immigrant, and working-class—seeking unique and everyday items. Growing up in the San Fernando Valley and visiting these swap meets with my mother, I developed a deep appreciation for how these markets not only sell goods but also reflect and sustain immigrant culture.
The queer arts collective was formed out of a collaborative effort between instructors and students who recognized the need for creative queer spaces on campus. From a summer feminist studies course, this project sparked a series of meet-ups and long-term projects from a collective of graduate and undergraduate students invested in queer politics and researched-informed art practices. Ranging from zine making to performance to illustration and creative non-fiction writing, we host quarterly meet-ups, coffee office hours, and events.
For more information and upcoming events follow us on Instagram @qacucsb. QAC is a project in collaboration with Katie VonWald.
I had the privilege of joining the Latinx Sound Culture Studies research group. We curated webinars, writing retreats, book anthologies, and academic panels all about the different ways we "sound Latinx".
Sounding Latinx is a project of the Latinx Sound Culture Studies research group, which focuses on social and spatial mobility, transgressive modes of sounding and listening, and decolonizing methodologies for working-class, migrant, and racialized Latinx communities. The project hosts conversations among Latina/o/x Studies scholars, exploring sounding and listening practices across various fields, including radio studies, linguistics, feminist studies, border soundscapes, jotería/queer performance, and music imaginaries.
