non-academic works here are in-progress projects in multiple genres: non-fiction, fiction (novels/novellas), and poetry collections.
Non-Fiction
Critical-Creative
El Otro Aztlán
This manuscript is an exploration of contemporary Chicana/o/x politics in the United States, proposing ways to understand our cultural moment and the political conjuncture we live in. It offers a new sense of the controversial concept and idea of Aztlán in the face of critics, proponents, and voices that seek to disentangle its ideology from a territory-based notion. This book has in mind Mexican American and Latinx readers who desire a critical perspective on Chicana/o/x politics today. In general, it offers a brief history and experience of Chicana/o/x radicalism, as well as the radical traditions that are able to inspire a new ideological force.
Moral Failure: A Crossroads of Desire
Written as a memoir-in-essays, this manuscript explores the concept of desire from the standpoint of popular Mexican "morality." The text interweaves historical moments of Mexican American experience, first-person narrative, and poetry. At the heart of this book is the figure of the outcast.
Anarcho-Xicanisma | with Maritza J. Geronimo
This book project is an exploration of Chicana/o/x anarchism and anti-authoritarian politics. It is grounded in Gloria E. Anzaldúa's concept of nepantla to propose and offer the philosophy of anarchy a path of ongoing contradictions: between the self and world, authority and community, and, lastly, freedom and unfreedom.
Autohistoria-Teoría
In Danger of Being Forgotten
In the form of a trilogy, the ideas and practices unfolding in this text are organized by three inquiries: 1. youth, 2. friendship, and 3. love. By taking the route of autohistoria, I write in memoir, poetry, semi-fiction, essay, and philosophy forms to make sense of the teoría offered in each inquiry. The spirit of these books are literary art and self-criticism, weaving together not only the story of the self in relation to the inquiries explored, but the world and its resonance. In each book, the inquiry is also shaped by negative themes associated with the terms, e.g. youth and shame, friendship and jealousy, love and rage. I borrow the title from Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn: "All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten."
El Otro Aztlán
This manuscript is an exploration of contemporary Chicana/o/x politics in the United States, proposing ways to understand our cultural moment and the political conjuncture we live in. It offers a new sense of the controversial concept and idea of Aztlán in the face of critics, proponents, and voices that seek to disentangle its ideology from a territory-based notion. This book has in mind Mexican American and Latinx readers who desire a critical perspective on Chicana/o/x politics today. In general, it offers a brief history and experience of Chicana/o/x radicalism, as well as the radical traditions that are able to inspire a new ideological force.
Moral Failure: A Crossroads of Desire
Written as a memoir-in-essays, this manuscript explores the concept of desire from the standpoint of popular Mexican "morality." The text interweaves historical moments of Mexican American experience, first-person narrative, and poetry. At the heart of this book is the figure of the outcast.
Anarcho-Xicanisma | with Maritza J. Geronimo
This book project is an exploration of Chicana/o/x anarchism and anti-authoritarian politics. It is grounded in Gloria E. Anzaldúa's concept of nepantla to propose and offer the philosophy of anarchy a path of ongoing contradictions: between the self and world, authority and community, and, lastly, freedom and unfreedom.
Autohistoria-Teoría
In Danger of Being Forgotten
In the form of a trilogy, the ideas and practices unfolding in this text are organized by three inquiries: 1. youth, 2. friendship, and 3. love. By taking the route of autohistoria, I write in memoir, poetry, semi-fiction, essay, and philosophy forms to make sense of the teoría offered in each inquiry. The spirit of these books are literary art and self-criticism, weaving together not only the story of the self in relation to the inquiries explored, but the world and its resonance. In each book, the inquiry is also shaped by negative themes associated with the terms, e.g. youth and shame, friendship and jealousy, love and rage. I borrow the title from Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn: "All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten."
Fiction
Novel
Ordinary Mischief
A rag-tag group of university students live in a cooperative home in Los Angeles and start to experience supernatural events. These unreal circumstance lead the group to new bonds and relationships, as they journey to figure out what they are experiencing.
Novella
Dreaming of Tamoanchan
The United States is facing a destabilization of political power and the collapse of repressive institutions when a clandestine network of white supremacist groups emerge and conquer key cosmopolitan regions, creating a interstate system of city-states of competing factions. A militant, anti-fascist, and anti-state communist network organizes an armed rebellion while also inciting a revolution for liberation.
Ordinary Mischief
A rag-tag group of university students live in a cooperative home in Los Angeles and start to experience supernatural events. These unreal circumstance lead the group to new bonds and relationships, as they journey to figure out what they are experiencing.
Novella
Dreaming of Tamoanchan
The United States is facing a destabilization of political power and the collapse of repressive institutions when a clandestine network of white supremacist groups emerge and conquer key cosmopolitan regions, creating a interstate system of city-states of competing factions. A militant, anti-fascist, and anti-state communist network organizes an armed rebellion while also inciting a revolution for liberation.
Poetry
Collections
Becoming Earth: Mis Aires
All My Majestic Bullshit: Las Lágrimas
Becoming Earth: Mis Aires
All My Majestic Bullshit: Las Lágrimas