May 18, 2023
Yup! She and I are actually friends. I didn't include her on this list, however, because—though she does a bang-up job with mining Mesoamerican culture and sensibilities—she isn't actually Mexican or Mexican American, which is a prerequisite for writing Mexican American Futurism, IMO (see my Medium article "Braiding Past into Future" https://davidbowles.medium.com/toward-a-mexican-american-futurism-534b734e441b)