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Studies

I have an undergraduate degree from UT-El Paso in multidisciplinary studies and completed Mexican American Culture, museum studies and archives work at the University of Texas-Pan American, now the University of Texas-RGV. I received a MAIS from Western New Mexico University with concentrations in history and writing. My concentrations focused on Indigenous people of the Southwest and Texas and small publishing and the printing press.


Roots

I am the daughter of a Mexican bracero worker who came to the United States as a laborer under the guest worker program of the 1940s and the daughter of a Puerto Rican woman who came to the US as a young girl with her family because of colonialism and imperialism in the Caribbean. I’m a long time zinester interested in alt.media, diy, edupunk, veg*n baking, indigenous issues, queer theory and reclamation, mestiza identity, borderland studies, women of color in alt media, 1st generation Mexican, 1st generation Puerto Rican identity, Texas/Mexico border history, raising spitfire chicanas, single parenting in alt cultures, raising teens/kids with disabilities, raising neurodiverse kids/teens and parenting as a neurodiverse queer parent.

LIFE EXPERIENCE

PALOMA NEGRA

I grew up in Chicago and then up and down South Texas, spending summers and my teen years in Mexico and living by myself and extended family as I got older. A learning disorder went undiagnosed until my 20s and although I loved to read, I dropped out of school during my 8th-grade year. 

MOORED SPACE

I use poetry, creative nonfiction and sometimes mixed media to express the disconnect and discontent of living between and away from homelands once removed. I also use poetry and creative nonfiction to tell stories of pain and chronic illness, grief, disability, and our connections to moored place and space.

BEAUTIFUL OCELOT

I’m a long time zinester interested in alt.media, subcultures & sub communities, the creations of subcultures, diy, edupunk, solar punk, indigenous issues, crip/sick & autistic identity in queer & POC spaces, queer and nonbinary & trans identity, b/Borderland studies, women of color in zine & grrrl history, 1st generation Mexican, 1st generation Puerto Rican identity, Texas/Mexico border history, saving the flora & fauna of the border area & saving the beautiful ocelots of the Rio Grande Valley.

What type of

editor am I?

I offer diversity editing, also known as sensitivity reading, authenticity reading or expert consultations.
My areas of concentration are disability, neurodivergency & diversity.
I’ll assess your manuscripts and writing projects, focusing on any problems in language, stereotypes, bias, or harmful language, and deliver an editorial letter.