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 Chicana and Tejana activism, cultural production, and collective memory as ways of examining how borderland identities are negotiated through ongoing methods of state sanctioned violence/surveillance through technocolonialism and spaces of detainment. She looks to Tejana literary archives to reexamine countervisions of liberation. Her work asks: How can we utilize place and community memory as methods of reviving a political approach? How can bordering/borderland identities and more-than-human relations offer methods of agency at this time of crisis?