{"id":1941,"date":"2025-05-27T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T15:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1941"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:47:30","slug":"micha-cardenas","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/micha-cardenas\/","title":{"rendered":"micha c\u00e1rdenas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>micha c\u00e1rdenas<\/strong>, PhD, MFA, is an artist, author and Associate Professor of Critical Race &amp; Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the director of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/criticalrealities.sites.ucsc.edu\/__;!!Mih3wA!FNRfoV2TcV5PBJ7LnfNPeYVi8auJBhO_GazBR0HeLB2ZtVH8FT-U2aj9C6VpCF-tKjCi28yGfYWu6lUpMkVUZM54pw0u$\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critical Realities Studio<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Her debut novel\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.akpress.org\/atoms-never-touch.html__;!!Mih3wA!FNRfoV2TcV5PBJ7LnfNPeYVi8auJBhO_GazBR0HeLB2ZtVH8FT-U2aj9C6VpCF-tKjCi28yGfYWu6lUpMkVUZIYjKhzv$\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atoms Never Touch<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (AK Press, 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.dukeupress.edu\/poetic-operations__;!!Mih3wA!FNRfoV2TcV5PBJ7LnfNPeYVi8auJBhO_GazBR0HeLB2ZtVH8FT-U2aj9C6VpCF-tKjCi28yGfYWu6lUpMkVUZLNpnnNN$\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poetic Operations : Trans of Color Art in Digital Media<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Duke University Press, 2022) was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzald\u00faa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women\u2019s Studies Association.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"micha c\u00e1rdenas, PhD, MFA, is an artist, author and Associate Professor of Critical Race &amp; Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the director of the Critical Realities Studio. Her debut novel\u00a0Atoms Never Touch (AK Press, 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph Poetic Operations : [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":1946,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/1941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}