Nepantlerxs

Borrowed from the philosophy of Gloria Anzaldúa, who used the term nepantlera to define people who live in a state of in-between-ness, we are nepantlerxs. Liminality is our strength.

Agustín Cruz

•Film
•Media
•Chicanx Studies

Agustín is researching a cinematic gaze that is rooted in Chicanx visual culture and other(ized) cinematic movements in opposition to hegemonic spectatorship. Agustín's publications include a research paper informed by Gloria Anzaldúa's concept of Autohistoria-Teoría titled "Dispossessing the White Ga(y)ze: A Movida for Coloring the Queer Archive," "Codex Cōātlīcue: An Excavation of a Xicane Gaze," and "Dreaming of Billy Dreaming of Gabriel: Revisioning New Queer Cinema." Presently, his research involves organizing Wachale Cineteca, a cinematheque that cultivates a cinematic practice—through critical filmmaking and critical spectatorship—in search of alternative cinematic forms, other(ized) methods of looking (e.g., hooks’s “oppositional gaze”), archival revisioning, and epistemic refuge. Additionally, Wachale Cineteca seeks to establish a framework of distribution and exhibition that is not bound to traditional channels.

Yaya Cortez

•Ethnic Studies
•Community
•Financial Literacy
•Real Estate

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Donnie Ortega Madden

•Health & Wellness
•Cannabis
•Art

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Natalie Escobedo

•Photography
•Music
•Nature

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Carlos Ortega Madden

•Animation
•Art
•Design

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Damian Possidente

•Sustainable Architecture
•Urban Design
•Community-focused Design

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