“. . . 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 San Antonio, TX. In 2018 she received her Master’s Degree in Education from the Bicultural-Bilingual Studies program at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s (UTSA), and is now a Ph.D. Candidate in the Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies program at Texas Woman’s University where her research utilizes intersectional feminist historical analysis and archival methods to document the work of Black and Chicana educator activist leaders in San Antonio, specifically how their experience within the intersections of race, class, ethnicity, and gender raised their consciousnesses to create alternative educational methods and practices necessary for individual and collective change. Gabriella is also a Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies instructor at UTSA, Event’s Coordinator for the Democratizing Racial Justice Project at UTSA, serves as At-Large Representative for Mujeres Actives en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS), and is the Co-Chair of the NACCS Chicana Caucus.
