Editorial & Facilitation Work
Poem-A-Day via Poets.org
“The Opposite of Abandonment” was curated for Poem-A-Day thanks to Vanessa Angélica Villarreal. Read or listen to a Q&A about Villarreal’s curatorial approach.
Arkive Magazine
In my first published essay, I explore the concept of trans time, a fluid and spiraling experience that envisions potentialities alongside the struggles of navigating my second puberty. In this reflection, the sale of my Abuela's house leads to the inheritance of belongings and memories, prompting a revisitation of multiple versions of the self. All scans and linocuts are provided by me. Sit at the family table with me.
2023 Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar
I had the pleasure of attending the 2023 Tin House Summer Workshop to work on my manuscript with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and a cohort of incredible poets. Read more about the scholars here.
Deem Audio
Dreaming Different is an exploration of worldbuilding guided by the question: How can we design the future through a neurodivergent lens?
Hosted by Jezz Chung, this six-episode podcast series includes conversations with organizers, artists, cultural philosophers, and scientists to explore how a better understanding of neurodiversity—including the language and experiences of it—can help us create cultures that are more inclusive, equitable, accessible, creative, and connected. It’s our hope that through imagination and conversation, this series helps you think, and ultimately dream, a little differently.
As a producer and editorial collaborator, I worked with Jezz to secure guests, schedule interviews, and gather access needs during the pre-production phase. Post-production, I shaped the episodes, edited transcripts alongside Jezz, and noted pull quotes for social media.
Foundwork Dialogues Series
“How do we archive the missing? How do we fill in the gaps of history produced by colonial violence and erasure?
As one of three shortlisted honorees for the 2022 Foundwork Art Prize, I spoke with Chris Zhongtian Yuan about the origins of their archiving practice, making space for screaming, interrogating structures of power through architectural renderings, and the potentiality of resonant sound over the physical manifestations of body and place. “
Read the full interview here.
bee-stung mag
Two of my lino-poems “TO BE A CLOUD W/ YOU” and “I’M LEARNING HOW TO ASK YOU TO,” were published in Issue #13 — Autumn 2022. Read here.
Deem Journal
For Issue Four of Deem Journal, “A Sense of Place” I moderated a conversation on belonging and lineages of care with Sasha Costanza-Chock & Cara Page. To purchase the issue, click here.
rivulet
My poem, “PANTOUM FOR TWO COWBOYS”, along with 4 accompanying linocuts, were published in rivulet 9: reflex. Read about it here.
Headspace
For Headspace’s partnership with Lucasfilm, I explored the Star Wars Galaxy and wrote a Sleepcast traversing the planet of Tatooine. Enjoy time with a moody Luke Skywalker at Lars Moisture Farm, a brooding Han Solo in Mos Eisley cantina, a lost and sand stricken C-3PO and R2-D2 in a Jawa transport before exploring the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon just before it shifts into hyperspeed.
Illustration Courtesy of Headspace
Headspace
For my latest Headspace Sleepcast, I spent a few quiet nights in August of 2021 writing about Plum Pottery, my local neighborhood ceramics studio. Explore the gentle hum of artists at work in this very special place. Now live in the Headspace app.
Illustration Courtesy of Headspace
Best of the Net Anthology 2022
My poem "I'M TIRED OF WORKING FOR ECCENTRIC WHITE MEN," published in Issue 14 of Apogee Journal, was chosen for the Best of the Net Anthology.
The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing. This space has been created to bring greater respect to the continually expanding world of exceptional digital publishing.
Catapult Magazine
As a part of Catapult's "Don't Write Alone" programming, I had a conversation with Angel Nafis about our time together in 2019 and what it means to call ourselves archivists. The full conversation, "What Can a Poetry Collection Do?" can be found here.
Deem Journal
For Issue Three of Deem Journal, “Envisioning Equity,” I interviewed archival activist Danielle Brathwhaite-Shirley about archiving the expansiveness of Black trans existence, building archives that center Black trans people in which the viewer cannot remain passive, and what it would mean to create a truly equitable climate and future for Black trans people.
The interview is now live at DeemJournal.com.
Hennepin Review
“I GIVE MYSELF EVERYTHING,” a reflection on the ways in which I serve and take care of myself, has been published by the Hennepin Review.
Deem Journal
For Issue Two of Deem Journal, “Pedagogy for a New World,” I interviewed Kamra, founder of Activation Residency about Activation’s Respite as Resistance initiative, care as a pedagogy and praxis, divestment from white supremacy, curatorial establishments and institutions, and the portals they open within and outside of their body as a futurity artist.
Order your copy at DeemJournal.com.
Headspace
Explore the life and rituals of an old Pacific lighthouse, and the people and plants that call this sandy cliffside home. Enter the world of the “Windswept Lighthouse” Sleepcast on the Headspace app.
Illustration Courtesy of Headspace
The winding paths, exotic plants, and serene pond in this tranquil garden make it the perfect place to get lost. Stroll through the “Botanical Building” Sleepcast to ease you into rest.
Illustration Courtesy of Headspace
This cozy, corner marketplace offers fresh tortillas, juices, and plenty of handmade trinkets to discover. Observe “El Mercado” as it winds down for the evening. Now live in the Headspace app.
Illustration Courtesy of Headspace
Catapult Magazine
“WHAT IS A COUNTRY TO A UNIVERSE?” published by Catapult Magazine.
Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult
Office Hours Broadside Fundraiser
“SITTING W/ ABUELO @ THE FAMILY GHOST TABLE” was designed into a broadside by Reba Joy for the Office Hours Broadside Fundraiser.
Ethel’s Club
Facilitated a generative writing workshop @ Ethel’s Club as a part of their ✨Dreaming into The Future: Building Communal Practices, Portals, and Spaces✨ week-long programming series. Using FKA Twigs’s song “home with you” and Shira Erlichman’s poem “Somewhere Real,” attendees spent their Friday afternoon writing towards an intentional future of their own design.
The Writer’s Club
Facilitated a generative writing workshop @ the Writer’s Club on “Opening Portals” to alternate futures, referencing Octavia E. Butler’s essay “Rules for Predicting the Future” & Kyle Carrero Lopez’s poem “After Abolition.”
The Slowdown Show
“AQUÍ HAY TODO, MIJA” featured on The Slowdown Show.
Apogee Journal
“I'M TIRED OF WORKING FOR ECCENTRIC WHITE MEN” published in Issue 14 of Apogee Journal.
Visual Art: Clifford Prince King, Como Park (2019).
Peach Mag Bronze in Poetry Award
“ODE TO TRANS BOXING CLASS” was awarded the 2020 Peach Mag Bronze in Poetry by guest judge Alok Vaid-Menon.
Brooklyn Poets
“AQUÍ HAY TODO, MIJA” published as a part of Brooklyn Poets ‘Poet of the Week’ series.
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext
“QUEER JOY MIJX” published in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext edited by Felicia Rose Chavez, José Olivarez, and Willie Perdomo.
