Hi! My name is jared, I grew up in so-called Portland, Oregon, and my family is from so-called Quintana Roo, MX. I am Maya (de la peninsula)/Mexican/Chicano/Loud/(Spoken Word) Poet/Student/Writer/Son/Brother/Friend/Young Ancestor. On Brown's campus I help lead MEChA, co-program our Latinx Heritage Series, am a member of Student's forJustice in Palestine, and am a poet with WORD! Performance Poetry among other things. I also study Ethnic Studies with a focus on (but not limited to) Chicanx, Latinx, and Latin American Indigenous identities, futurisms, world-building, knowledge accessibility, and language revitalization. Kanáantabaj!

Project:

Google-image search: “Maya”. Pyramid. Pyramid. Computer software. Pyramid. No people. Research, history books, media depictions, school mascots, etc., in USian society have historically erased, past-tensed, and dehumanized Indigenous peoples. By utilizing ethnographic and participatory action research methods such as interviews and workshops, this project seeks to celebrate Chicanx Indigenous voices while honing in on how writing (processes) have been—and can be—a site of community-building, liberation, healing, and survivance (writing to survive and writing as resistance). This research will challenge extractive and dehumanizing research practices that harm Indigenous communities by asking how research can be a healing process for the researched and how the ‘researched’ can have agency as an empowered collaborator.