A DISCOTECA
&
A GARDEN
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A DISCOTECA & A GARDEN 〰️
The genre™ is part memoir, part cultural analysis, and part design theory. Who says you can’t mix feminine realness with some shade, tea, and a little brujeria in a critique of the ways concepts of God, gender, race and heroes have failed us — all in the pursuit of divining the power we’ve always held to free ourselves?*
Una Ofrenda: Design as a Relational Practice
A series of essays and visual explorations that offer cultural critique, design histories, liberatory pedagogies, and proof of concept toward a postioned approach to creating visual design.
Parallel-Play is a hybrid creative practice that thrives at the intersection of Graphic Design, Education, and Advocacy.
Graphic design
can’t save the world.
(But I love that energy.)
FREE KITTENS & UNSOLICITED
OPINIONS
(aka substack)
Altars to Life
Photo-based series honoring the experiences of girlhood, marriage, and motherhood through a dialectical lens.
(this shit hard)
La Reyna Mexica Zine (Short Story)
The origin story of the Virgen de Guadalupe re-imagined through the lens of decolonial magical realism.
CodeSwitch / “Potential”
A video collage illustrating the invisible everyday labor of code-switching using a patchwork of gifs from film and television spanning five decades.
Human life is always inescapably located in time, place, and culture—and by extension, so are the artifacts we create.
(Design is always located.)
Ouroboros, TV Collage 5:54
Looping like the symbol it’s named after, and layered with humor, fragmentation, and eerie nostalgia, Ouroboros questions whether our aesthetic revolutions are evolution—or simply looping back into the same spectacle, again and again.
DESIGN IS
CONNECTING.
(moving ideas from the self to the other.)
Psalms For Las Chingonas
A Mixtape in the form of a Zine by the ladies for the ladies.
My astrological sign is Pisces. Please, be careful with my heart.
Imago DEIsign:
A Manifesto for Teaching Design that Cultivates Connection, Community and Cultural Literacy
Lineage
over legacy.
The term “Imago Dei” finds its roots in theology, where it is used to describe the reciprocal connection between God* and the living creation which becomes visible in moments of profound interpersonal resonance. It is seeing the divine essence within another being.
EL MAXIMO
con lo minimo