Algumas lembrancinhas que guardo com carinho deste último 2025. Celebrando o amor e a amizade da nossa amiga.
Açores (archipelago of 🐄, cheese & 🐟) e um bocadinho de Lisboa.
A quiet & dormant 2025. Found myself looking inward a lot, to those closest, and unexpectedly to my body. a lot to write about in this new year.
a memory: train hopping along the Rhine with my high school best friend, getting to know her new city (Kassel), fatigue over looming US empire, the dreamiest affogato & staying in a castle that had a vending machine full of Riesling.
My favorite 2025 summer memory: Traveling through the Norwegian countryside via scenic morning walks + public transportation (including a sleeper train which I was v. excited about 😂) with the best girl.
Keep traveling with your mamis/tías/elders, you very much inspired this trip, a new annual tradition.
how I end most of my lectures now 🫀
World building possibilities emerge from the peripheries, political margins always. Join me as I share some more thoughts on sentir pensando🫀+ recordkeeping *this* 5/22 Thursday at 6pm Miami-time via zoom (link to register in bio).
swipe to see today’s chat with the most attentive (!) undergrads in Seattle, as we talk about diaspora info tech/media (& my dad’s previous life as a subway preformer 🥲 lol)
gracias a la querida @zoniazena & the good ppl at the Miami‑Dade Public Library <3
print image x @ justseeds
Thinking of ourselves as part of a larger thing that extends beyond our lifetimes.
Reflections from Dr. Angela Davis’ and Ta-Nehisi Coates from last nite: “What kind of (historical) consciousness can we possibly create so that we don’t get incarcerated in *the moment*. So we don’t lose the possibility of seeing anything other than what is right in front of us.”
Tbh I don’t really know how to engage with this platform anymore or some of the (understandable) doomsday, disassociation or worse narratives of oblivion. So an invitation for us all to hold onto this notion - especially right now 🫀
Extrema Altura (Oca, Maíces Kiwicha, Mashwa) - 4200 MSNM (13,799 ft above sea level).
Last year, I had one of the top 5 meals that I’ll probably ever have at @centralrest (I believe ranked #1 in the world!). 14 courses told through the ingredients found across the altitudes and ecosystems of Peru’s costa (coast), sierra (highlands) & selva (Amazon). My heart jumped at the courses centered on high altitude ingredients (chincho, huacatay, paico & cushuro: an algae harvested from high altitude lakes) & use of techniques like the huatia - an oven of hot rocks, clay and soil - in this instance chaco, an edible clay, was used. Whether at a highly ranked restaurant, the local mercado or a homemade meal, food is ultimately a dialogue between nature, craft (memory) and politics.
I had an equally delicious ceviche lunch the following day at @cantaranita.barranco at mercado Feria Unión followed by probably one of the loveliest sunsets (over the pacific) of this past 2024.
This 2024, I:
- Picked up ceramics (I am not the greatest but I can’t wait to be back @ceramicsschool )
- Moved on to candidacy in my PhD journey
- Was included in the exhibit: The XR/XF: Extended Realities, Extended Feminisms
- Was included in a book/anthology co-edited by *the* leyenda Iris Morales @redsugarcane and the dear @karikarina._
- Made headway in furnishing the La Paz/chuquiago marka apartment
- Traveled and presented research here and there but a highlight was sharing with NoVa Community College (Woodbridge) students - the brilliance! 💎
- Subletted my apt and temporarily relocated to the DMV. Kinships were reinforced/established. I don’t think my time there is over just yet.
- Joined a 🇧🇴 dance fraternidad @alma_boliviana ❣️
- Was a research fellow of sorts at the Library of Congress. Aside from web archiving-related duties, Got to be up close to artists books, textiles, 14th century maps. Oriented myself in the maize that makes up their catalog, research resources & underground tunnels to work on a research guide on sentirpensar for 2025. Found mentorship with @__gisellemarie__ 🌀🍃
- Most importantly, family relationships were/are mending. Y eso me pone muy felíz.
In hindsight a lot happened but I kept feel-thinking my way through and through …maybe that’s why it felt quiet and slow. Sentirpensando nuevos horizontes y mundos este 2025.
Yesterday, off the coast of the Salish sea, I had meals that included servings of fresh wild salmon 🐟, a tangerine cocktail with gold glitter, and exchanges amongst women all in our mid-30/40’s embracing this particular stage in our lives as researchers but also strategizing for ourselves a more liberatory tomorrow.
Made my way through Victoria’s indie bookstores (picked up 🇨🇦 writings by Rinaldo Walcott, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & and a book on climate change + sports), thrifted @piazzasempione pants (!!) and on our ferry to Seattle spotted orcas 🐋
oh little life of mine. at 35.
ty for the 🎂 wishes!
The most meaningful gathering so far that this research journey has taken me as an Aymara-Quechua memory worker. Quechua, & our other languages provide pathways to world-making & seeing beyond the confines imposed by colonial thinking. Limits reinforced by colonial languages like Spanish & English. It’s incredible to see the brilliance & future-making taking place in los Andes & its diasporas🗻 Añay @thequechua for convening us.
Añay @shanainofuentes for being a thought-partner these past three years and now being down to collaborate through your film @kutiy.film and keep asking more questions🍃🌀
Me at Expo Chicago in front of weavings by the one 🇧🇴 diasporic artist (@miguel.arzabe )probably exhibiting in the whole fair. We just stumbled upon this booth! The 🗻🗻 keep calling me.
La semana pasada en Michoacán. Tierra de los pueblos Purépechas, Nahuas y Otomíes.
Que lindo es poder andar, estar en diálogo con otres cuidadores de la memoria y hablar de lo que más te gustar hacer. ☁️☁️
último slide: conferencia magistral de parte de @archivistasenespanglish para el VIII Coloquio de Archvística en la Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores (ENES) Unidad Morelia, UNAM.
More than ever I believe in the phrase “Another World is Possible” (more on that later) and how it feels more attainable when we gather.
Aside from my own, I went only one other talk titled: Making 🇵🇸 Solidarity Public. And I’m still sitting with Rinaldo Walcott’s (Black diaspora scholar) words “If we begin inside their (Imperialism/Colonialism) argument we already begin in defeat, in surrender.”
Montreal, a reminder of optimism over despair. But also, I just LOVED this city.
