Maringuía in Mission District, San Francisco, California. Photo by Mario A. Gómez Zamora.
Peer review articles
Through my current work on queerness, gender and sexuality, indigeneity, migration, and performances, I have published different articles where I integrate the voices of communities overlooked by academia while challenging research methodologies from Indigenous perspectives.
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. 2026. “The Marhuatspekua: Queer Indigenous Practices of Care, Love, and Reciprocity Beyond Borders.” Special issue on Indigenous Borderlands edited by Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Amrah Salomón, and Sussy Zepeda. American Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 3, a journal by the American Studies Association.
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. (Editor.). 2026. Special Issue on “Queer Indigenous and Latinx Histories of Migration, Love, and Meanings of Home.” The publication is the result of research conducted in collaboration with Latinx and Indigenous first-generation college students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, between 2023 and 2025. Label Me Latina/o/x/e journal of twentieth and twenty-first centuries Latino Literary Production, Vol. 16.2.
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. 2025. “Those who are like that. Performing Queer Belonging through P’urhépecha Indigenous practices of El Costumbre.” Wicazo Sa Review. Vol. 39, no. 1 & 2.
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario. 2024. “Breaking Queer Silences, Building Queer Archives, and Claiming Queer Indigenous P’urhépecha Methodologies.” In RAMIREZ, Renya and ORONA, Brittani R., (Eds.), Special issue on Native/Indigenous Family Studies in the Americas. Genealogy Journal 8, no. 4: 123. Most Thought-Provoking Article in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAISA)
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. 2024. “An Indigenous P’urhépecha Woman Record: Recordando el Pasado de Mamá Lupe.” Pasados: Recovering Histories, Imagining Latinidad. Vol. 1, No. 2.
Co-authors: SPEARS-RICO, Gabriela, ROMERO, Fabian, GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A, and AMEZCUA AGUILAR, Vicky. “Reclaiming the Queer P’urhépecha Archive: Anti-Gay Colonial Violence, Embodied Indigenous Witnessing and Living Two-Spirit Testimonios.” Feminist Anthropology. [In Review]
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. 2018. “Entre el Recuerdo y la Memoria: Un Ejercicio Didáctico de la Historia en Patamban, en la Sierra P´urhépecha, Michoacán.” pp. 102-108. Nota crítica en Revista Diarios del Terruño. Reflexiones sobre Migración y Movilidad, México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa. ISNN: 2448-6876