Dr. Gabriela Spears-Rico and Mario A. Gómez Zamora performing at Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México. June 25, 2024.
Photo by Dr. Mintzi A. Martínez-Rivera
Poetry
In my poetry, I reflect on issues related to gender binary, queerness, Indigenous cosmogonies, and migration.
“Juchari Erekani: Queer P’urhépecha Voices in Contemporary Queer Mesoamerica,” Performance presented along with Dr. Gabriela Spears-Rico and Dr. Fabian Romero. In Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México. June 25, 2024.
“Queerness Emerging and Women Forces,” Roundtable Juchari Erékani: Queer P’urhépecha Interventions. In National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Conference. San Francisco, California. April 26, 2024.
“Queer P’urhépecha Poetical Intervention,” Performance Panel Insurgent Kinship: Queer P’urhépecha Poetry and Performance as Resistance. In Association for Jotería Arts, Activism & Scholarship Conference (AJAAS). California State University, Los Angeles. February 16, 2024.
“Poetry, Conversations with my Homeland and my P’urhépecha Abuelo,” Panel Decolonial Affirmations of P’urhepechecidad: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Organization of American Historians (OAH). March 31, 2022. [Recorded presentation]
“Reencuentros con la Memoria de mi Abuelo,” Abiayala Working Group Flor y Canto, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). June 17, 2021. [Virtual Presentation]
“Poetry, A Tzintzún Emerging.” In Queer & Feminist Embodied Indigeneity: Decolonial Affirmations of P’urhepechidad Roundtable. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). June 14-21, 2021. [Virtual Presentation]
“Ser Michoacano-P’urhépecha, Migrante y un Espíritu Libre”: Construyendo Posibilidades para una Vida Digna.” In Association for Jotería Arts, Activism & Scholarship Conference (AJAAS). Portland State University. October 12, 2019.