“. . . we are mijas reimagining beyond archival confine. Alongside our mothers and across the kitchen table, mij[a]rchives’ theory, practice, and organizing is born. Come sit with us.”
founders
Stephany Bravo
Stephany Bravo was born in Los Angeles and raised in Compton, CA. She is pursuing a dual doctoral degree in English and Chicano/Latino Studies at Michigan State University. Her dissertation, Hub City Fractals: Tracing Relations and Building Home in Compton, Ca. situates itself as part of a larger historical discourse on the formation of the city by analyzing how, through cultural production, dispossessed communities contextualize and imagine a home of their own making. Stephany is the director of Archivo 310, an experimental analog/digital microlab stemming from the Diaspora Solidarities Lab which centers familial and community-based archives. Additionally, she is a member of Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM), a women of color collective based in Los Angeles. Her poems appear in Boundless: The Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley and Sad Girl Review. Select essays appear in The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Dryland Literary Journal and Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
Gabriella V. Sanchez
Gabriella V. Sanchez is a tenth generation Tejana, raised in Yanawana occupied San Antonio, TX. She completed her master’s in Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in 2018 and is currently a doctoral candidate in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s University. As co-founder of mij[a]rchives Gabriella takes seriously the memory keeping and storage methods created and practiced by her mother, Gloria, and is invested in further exploring family archives as sites of cultural, ancestral, and experiential knowledge. Gabriella is also a Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies instructor, Project Manager of La Crónica Tejana Storytellers Lab at Trinity University, Events Coordinator of Democratizing Racial Justice (DRJ) Project at UTSA, Social Media Coordinator of Mujeres Actives en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS), and Co-Chair of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Chicana Caucus.
