I am a queer, Chicana, single mother, born and raised in Oxnard, CA. I grew up in poverty with my Catholic family who immigrated from Mexico seeking better opportunities for me and my siblings. With a tumultuous upbringing revolving around mental and traditional health issues, drug-use, and teen parenting, I turned to the Punk subculture as a second family. I became heavily immersed in the Oxnard and Los Angeles Latine Punk scene where I was able to explore my identity in an unprejudiced environment.
My current work is ethnographic in nature, centering around the exploration of duality; carefully examining the natural juxtaposition within visual and contextual aspects of my cultural upbringing through the lens of individual as well as community identity.
