La Movida

*Of interest to those invested in the intersection between feminist reproductive labor and sickness; the quotidian and revolution; the daily experience of engaging in anti-colonial work and post-punk antifascist culture. *Of interest to readers seeking contemporary depictions of queer Latinx life and renewed practices of tradition and brujería*Author has a great sense of humor.*Author works at coffeshop/movie rental store in SF Mission District where they make daily chalk-board signs with often pointed or humorous social commentary *Author self-published a comics zine about bisexuality*Author is a talented visual artist (print-making, comics, zines, chalk-board signs, movement posters) who has exhibited and performed at institutions such as the Berkeley Art Museum. Book cover will feature one of their prints. *Author is a regular contributor to SFMoma’s OpenSpace blog*Author was co-curator of Cantíl reading series (POC reading series in SFBay Area) *Author works for Project SURVIVE out of City College of San Francisco, a student lead peer education group that presents to CCSF and SFUSD students about healthy relationship and sexual violence *Author is an Intern for the City of San Francisco’s Office for Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention *Author was a 2018 Mazza Writer in Residence at San Francisco State University*Poems were written at the kitchen table while thinking about the radicalization of Latinx teenagers. *Author works as a peer sexual health educator at CCSF’s Project SURVIVE *Author is doula living in California