Biography
Yasmine Gómez is a third year doctoral student in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington and is completing a Graduate Certificate in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Coming from the borderlands of Texas/Tejas, her master's research focused on Tejana/Chicana motherhood, the feminist punk politics of irreverence, and the embodiment of grief in poetry.
Yasmine's doctoral research focuses on Tejana activism, cultural production, and collective memory which seeks to examine how borderland identities are negotiated through ongoing methods of state sanctioned violence/surveillance through technocolonialism and spaces of detainment while looking to Tejana Speculative archives to reconceptualize the radical position of place in activism. Her work asks: How can we look to place as a way of seeking liberation from violent histories of oppression? What can memory teach us about this work? How can bordering identities and more-than-human relations offer methods of agency at this time of crisis?