Creative Writing
I believe in storytelling as a way to make sense of what we have lived and experienced.
While my research is shaped by what I dream the future to be, I use creative writing to reflect on the past that shaped those dreams – the moments of hurt, of growth, of mistakes made in search of the most honest and authentic version of myself.
Food and Resistance in Ancient and Contemporary Tlaxcala
Food and Resistance in Ancient and Contemporary Tlaxcala
A reflection on sharing meals across borders during a pandemic-interrupted community research project.
Tamaleando en Tennessee
Tamaleando en Tennessee
A food anthropologist looks back at a middle school program that helped her students celebrate the wide range of tamales across the Latinx food diaspora. As school leaders are deciding, how, when, or if to re-open, programs like these are on hold for now, but hopefully not forever.
Seasoning with Defiance
Seasoning With Defiance
For us, food became a message of resistance, a way for us to take care of one another, and to empower one another to keep fighting in a world that wants us to quit.
In Search of Wholeness:
How the Healing Garden Began
In Search of Wholeness: How the Healing Garden Began
The Healing Garden became an embodied practice of learning how to create an engaged pedagogy of my own, centered on imperfection, play, abundance and community.
Betwixt and Between the Sexes in Bioarchaeology
Betwixt and Between the Sexes in Bioarchaeology
Teaching about binary sexes inadvertently creates boxes for our students and ourselves.