micha cárdenas

micha cárdenas, PhD, MFA, is an artist, author and Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the director of the Critical Realities Studio. Her debut novel Atoms Never Touch (AK Press, 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph Poetic Operations : Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke University Press, 2022) was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association.

Submissions

Biohacking/Borderhacking

She sat in her hotel room, looking through the window at the border checkpoint into Mexicali, sharpening her fangs. Her silver tooth extension implants were not the very latest fashion in biohacking, but they were still one of her favorites.