Books / Audiobooks

ABC of Equality, Ewing, Chana Ginelle and Paulina Morgan (Illustrator). (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2019).

ABC, Munari, Bruno. (Corraini Edizioni, 1960).

Altar of the Imagination, Urrutia Gedney, Marisa. (Self-published, 2022).

Beyond Sticky Notes: Co-Design for REAL: Mindsets, Methods & Movements, McKercher, Kelly Ann. (Page Two Books, 2020).

The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection, Berry, Anne H., & Collie, Kareem (Eds.). (Allworth Press, 2022).

Black Futures, Drew, Kimberly and Jenna Wortham. (One World, 2020).

Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera, Anzaldúa, Gloria. (Aunt Lute Books, 1987).

Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer, Robin Wall. (Milkweed Editions, 2013).

Heller, Steven, & Vienne, Véronique. (Allworth Press, 2003).

CAPS LOCK: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design, and How to Escape from It, Pater, Ruben. (Valiz, 2021). 

Design Is Storytelling, Lupton, Ellen. (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2017).

Centered: People and Ideas Diversifying Design, Sales, Kaleena. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2023).

Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era, Espinoza, Dionne, María Eugenia Cotera, and Maylei Blackwell. (University of Texas Press, 2018).

Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo, Buenaflor, Erika. (Bear & Company, 2018).

Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook, Tunstall, Dori. (MIT Press, 2023).

Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, Escobar, Arturo. (Duke University Press, 2018).

Designerly Ways of Knowing, Abdulla, Danah.
(MIT Press, 2022).

Design as Art, Munari, Bruno. (Penguin Books, 1971).

Dawn, Butler, Octavia. (Warner Books, 1987).

Everybody Come Alive, Alvis Walker, Marcie. (Convergent Books, 2023).

Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers, Lupton, Ellen, & Tobias, Jennifer. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021).

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls, Thom, Kai Cheng. (Penguin Random House Canada, 2023).

Fanzines, Triggs, Teal. (Chronicle Books, 2010).

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color, Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas Mojica. (Seal Press, 2021).

Funeral For Flaca, Prado, Emilly. (Future Tense Books, 2021).

Goddess, Ramirez, Dr. Janina & Sarah Walsh. (Nosy Crow, 2023).

Guadalupe and the Flower World Prophecy, Gonzalez, Julian and Monique Gonzalez. (FlowerSong Press, 2021).

Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit, Kent, Corita and Jan Steward. (Allworth Press,1992).

Making and Being, Jahoda, Susan and Caroline Woolard. (Dap Press, 2020).

Many Shapes of Clay, Sneed, Kanesha. (Prestel, 2021).

mariposa x guerrera, Guerra, Kim. (Fluent Press, 2020).

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), Spade, Dean. (Verso, 2021).

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Galeano, Eduardo. (Monthly Review Press, 1971).

Parable of the Sower, Butler, Octavia. (Grand Central Publishing, 1993).

Research For People Who Think They Would Rather Create, Vis, Dirk, with introduction by Florian Cramer. (Set Margins’, 2023).

Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods, Wilson, Shawn. (Fernwood Publishing, 2008).

Raising Good Humans, Naumburg, Carla, PhD. (New Harbinger Publications, 2019).

Scattered Minds, Maté, Gabor. (Penguin Canada, 1999).

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (A. S. Trueblood, Trans). (Harvard University Press, 1988).

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Bell Hooks (Routledge, 1994).

Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices, Germán, Lorena Escoto. (Heinemann Publishing, 2021).

The Body Keeps the Score, van der Kolk, Bessel A. (Penguin Books, 2014).

The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence, The Care Collective. (Verso, 2020).

The Creative Act, Rubin, Rick. (Penguin Press, 2023).

The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs, Townsend, Camilla. (Oxford University Press, 2019).

The Giving Tree, Silverstein, Shel. (Harper & Row, 1964).

The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico, Paz, Octavio. (Grove Press, 1950).

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work, Godin, Seth. (Portfolio, 2020).

The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication, Pater, Ruben. (BIS Publishers, 2016). 

The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth, Rush, Elizabeth. (Milkweed Editions, 2023).

Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human, Escobar, Arturo. (Duke University Press, 2024).

We Are the Land: A History of Native California, Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr. (University of California Press, 2021.)

What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion, Lorusso, Silvio. (Set Margins’, 2024).

Who Can Afford to Be Critical?: An Inquiry into What We Can’t Do Alone, as Designers, and into What We Might Be Able to Do Together, as People, Lorusso, Silvio. (Set Margins’, 2023).

A Woman is a School (Books for Collective Liberation), Semaan, Celine. (Slow Factory Press, 2024).

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Estés, Clarissa P. (Ballantine Books, 1992).

You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel, Enrigue, Álvaro, trans. Natasha Wimmer. (Riverhead Books, 2024).

Documentaries & Film

American Historia, (Director). (2024).

American Homeboy, Prieto, B. (Director). (2023).

Burros, Stein, J. (Director). (2021).

Chavela, Gund, C., & Kyi, D. (Directors). (2017).

Engaging Tradition: Making Home Altars, Alliance for California Traditional Arts. (2022).

Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniels, D. K., & Scheinert, D. (Directors). (2022).

Fancy Dance, Erica Tremblay (Director). (2023).

Frida, Ray, A. (Director). (2020).

I Am Thinking of Ending Things, Kaufman, C. (Director). (2020).

I Saw the TV Glow, Schoenbrun, J. (Director). (2024).

Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese, M. (Director). (2023).

La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead, Portillo, L. (Director). (2020).

Lakota Nation vs. United States, O’Connor, J., & Pearl, S. (Directors). (2022).La Malinche: Not a Traitor, but a Survivor, Gloria Arjona PhD

Me and Mr. Mauri – Turning Poison Into Medicine, (Director). (n.d.).

Nice Photo, Beautiful Life, (Director). (n.d.).

Origin, DuVernay, A. (Director). (2023).

Pretty Baby, Garbus, L. (Director). (2023).

Reservation Dogs [TV series], Harjo, S., & Waititi, T. (Creators). (2021–2023).

Roma, Cuarón, A. (Director). (2018).

The Punk Singer, Anderson, S. (Director). (2013).

Sinners, Coogler, R. (Director). (TBD).

Schizopolis, Soderbergh, S. (Director). (1996).

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Guggenheim, D. (Director). (2023).

This Fool [TV series], Estrada, C., Bishop, P., Ingebretson, M., & Weisman, J. (Creators). (2022–2023).

A Tiger in Paradise, Karlsson, M. C. (Director). (2023).

The Barbie Movie, Gerwig, G. (Director). (2023).

The Last Forest, Salgado, L. (Director). (2021).

Women Talking, Polley, S. (Director). (2022).

Essays / Online Articles / Blogs 

Chicana por mi Raza - Digital Memory Project and Archive Chicana por mi Raza. (n.d.). Digital Memory Project and Archive. https://chicanapormiraza.org/

Charles Gaines Interrogates the Nature of Meaning Slenske, M. (n.d.). Charles Gaines Interrogates the Nature of Meaning. W Magazine. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/resnicowandassociates_charles-gaines-interrogates-the-nature-of-activity-7138980041173921792-16c-

Curanderismo, Traditional Healing of Mexican Culture Curanderismo.org. (n.d.). Curanderismo, the Healing Art of Mexico. https://www.curanderismo.org/curanderismo-healing

Do Latinos Consider Themselves Mainstream?
The Influence of Region Vasquez-Tokos, J. (2019). Do Latinos Consider Themselves Mainstream? The Influence of Region. Sociological Perspectives, 63(4), 571–588. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0731121419881139

Design & Pedagogy, Jahoda, S., & Woolard, C. (n.d.). Making and Being. https://makingandbeing.com 

He’ll Ruin Your Life the Way His Daddy Ruined Ours
McCaulley, E. (2023, September 10). He’ll Ruin Your Life the Way His Daddy Ruined Ours. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/prayer-religion-fathers-failures/675268/

How the White Cube Came To Dominate Art
Cain, A. (2017, January 23). How the White Cube Came to Dominate the Art World. Artsy. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-white-cube-dominate-art

I’ve Been Thinking About The Term Pedagogy
Baumgarten, L. (n.d.). I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the term ›pedagogy‹. https://work.lisabaumgarten.de/I-ve-been-thinking-quite-a-bit-about-the-term-pedagogy

In ‘The Fraud,’ Zadie Smith seeks to ‘do absolute justice to the truth’
Gross, T. (2023, September 9). In ‘The Fraud,’ Zadie Smith seeks to ‘do absolute justice to the truth’. NPR. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197604421

In the Aztec Flower Paradise Gonzalez, J. (n.d.). In the Aztec Flower Paradise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qdc5pCGLn0

Not Your Token Asian: How Japanese Women At Internment Camp Made Their Clothes Their Own
Arquillos, M. (n.d.). https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/05/200042/internment-camp-jacket-birds

Perspectives: Zines as a Vehicle for Visibility
Brooklyn Museum. (2024, March). Perspectives: Zines as a Vehicle for Visibility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MBDITR6MII

The East LA Walkouts of 1968 Torres-Sanchez, M. (n.d.). The East LA Walkouts of 1968. La Gente.
https://lagente.org/the-east-la-walkouts-of-1968it-was-beautiful-to-be-a-chicano-that-day/

The Futile Pursuit of Happiness
Jon Gertner on Daniel T. Gilb ert
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/magazine/the-futile-pursuit-of-happiness.html

The History of Zines with Kate Bingaman-Burt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxKBIMN9dgU

Towards More Inclusive Schools: An Application of Hospitality in Parental Involvement
Latunde, Y. (n.d.). https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1220&context=icctej

Theodore Payne Foundation. Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants. May 2025.
https://theodorepayne.org/.

We’re Redefining What It Means to Be a ‘No Sabo’ Kid
Refinery 29, Jacqueline Delgadillo
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2022/05/10971837/no-sabo-kid-meaning-new-definition

What Belonging Is – And Is Not
Malhotra, R. T. (n.d.). https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-belonging-ruchika-t-malhotra-nkaac/ 

Podcasts & Vlogs

Being Well Podcast
Hosts: Dr. Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson

How to Use Your UNCONSCIOUS Mind 

Yung Pueblo on Relationships, Change, and Mindfulness

Code Switch (NPR)
Hosts: B.A. Parker, Lori Lizarraga, Gene Demby, Shereen Marisol Meraji

Why Tacos Are As ‘American’ As Apple Pie 

Why Now Is The Time To Find Power In “Otherness”

In The Face Of Trans Erasure, What Can We Learn From Marsha P. Johnson?

A Former Church Girl’s Search For A New Spiritual Home

Is Home Still Home After 30 Years Away?

What James Baldwin Can Teach Us About Israel, And Ourselves  

How Do Descendants Of Slavery Honor Their Ancestors’ Legacy?

Naomi Jackson Talks ‘Losing And Finding My Mind’
Giving Up on Identity with Ada Limón

Graphic Support Group
Hosts: Join James Chae and Drew Litowitz 

Promises broken, promises kept. We R Here 4 U.
Amy Fortunato - Context
Mindy Seu - Excitement

Hidden Brain
Host: Shankar Vedantam

Cognitive Dissonance

 Change Your Story, Change Your Life

 What We Gain from Pain

Dropping The Mask

Stereotype Threat

Latino USA
Maria Hinojosa

Frank’s ‘Revolutionary’ Queer Quince at 30 

My Faja Saved Me

New Pope: From Chicago to Chiclayo

‘We Are in a Constitutional Crisis’: A Mega Prison and What’s at Stake

‘Loca’: Migration and Queerness in Alejandro Heredia’s Literary Debut

Teresa Urrea: The Mexican Joan of Arc

Hombre: Understanding Latino Men ft. Two Voters, Two Views

Indigenous Science With Jessica Hernandez

Hombre: Understanding Latino Men ft. Chuck Rocha

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ on Screen

My Divo Podcast
Host: Maria Garcia

Introducing My Divo

The Light on My Skin

Juárez and Its Secrets

The Long-Lost Prison File

What Can Be Seen Shouldn’t Be Asked

Yes, I Wore This to Your Palace

Jewel of the Nation

The Old VHS in the Garage

The Sun Rises

Still Processing
Hosts: Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham

Before I Let Go

America Has A Problem

Plastic Off The Sofa

We’re Never Going To Get That Top 40 Out Of Us

We, Tina

Time to Say Goodbye
Hosts: Jay Caspian Kang, E. Tammy Kim, Andy B. Liu

Back to School: MIT’s Disappearing Black Student Population

How to Think and Read in a World of AI with Zena Hitz

We Can Do Hard Things
Hosts: Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle

Healing From Emotionally Immature Parents

Make Rest Your Revolution with Tricia Hersey

Inside an Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Trusting Yourself Again with Dr. Hillary McBride

How to Spot a Narcissist with Caroline Strawson

How to Make Betrayal Beautiful with Maggie Smith

 Kerry Washington on the Family Secret that Shaped Her

La Brega Season 2 -
The Puerto Rican Experience In Eight Songs
Host: Alana Casanova-Burgess

“Preciosa” — The Other Anthem

“El Gran Varón” — Who Was Simón?

“Suavemente” — The Merengue War

“I Wonder If I Take You Home” — Freedom in Freestyle

“Las Caras Lindas (De Mi Gente Negra)” — An Ode to Blackness

“Boricua en la Luna” — The Moon’s Distance

“Vamos Pa’ Plaza” — The Center of Everything

“Olas y Arenas” — The Beaches Belong to the People

Artists Works & Exhibitions

63 Objects from My Son’s Mouth, Lenka Clayton

Anna Tsouhlarakis: Indigenous Absurdities

Bajitas y Suavecitas (Main Gallery) & Pachucxs Revisited (West Gallery), CalState University Northridge, 2025

Danza Azteca Xochipilli – an Aztec dance group out of East Los Angeles, California

Estevan Oriol & Teen Angels Magazine, Beyond the Streets, through Sept 15, 2024

Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics

Jaime Muñoz: Truth Is A Moving Target, Plaza de Cultura y Artes, through Jan 26, 2025

Lauren Halsey, Hauser & Wirth, 2023

Luna Luna, Los Angeles 2023

Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, The Broad, through Sept 29, 2024

Pavel Acevedo, Live Screen Printing Picaresca Cafe, December 2024

Reverberations: Lineages in Design History, Ford Foundation Gallery, NY, March 2025

Robert Rodriguez - MOLA Typeface

https://www.rg-rq.com/typefaces/mola/