Alexandra Nichole Salazar (she/ella) is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Riverside in the Department of Ethnic Studies. She holds a PhD from the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on queer border life, performance, iconographies, oral histories, and archives. Her book manuscript, Malcriada Archiving: Queer Worldmaking Culture in the Borderlands, theorizes how queer communities across the U.S.–Mexico borderlands resist dominant archival practices and instead generate their own narratives, epistemologies, and cultural forms. She is the creator and host of Jotxs y Recuerdos, a podcast/archive dedicated to documenting queer histories, cultural expressions, and ephemera from the Rio Grande Valley (Somi Se’k) and other liminal spaces. Salazar is also part of various collectives and projects that are centered around decolonial education/archiving: Malflora Collective,Sandovalian Semillero Collective, and Mapping Violence.
