Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec)

PhD | Assist. Prof. | Global Studies at UC Irvine l @NASEMFordFellow | Critical Indigenous studies, Latin America, diasporas, settler colonialism. #Oaxaqueña

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

My peer-reviewed journal article is now out, "Soy de Zoochina: Transborder Comunalidad Practices among Adult Children of Indigenous Migrants." It discusses how Zapotec generations contest their racialization through sociocultural community practices.
https://t.co/XTw7cu3oPn

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

-Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas
- Radical Geographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America
-Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico.
Thank you!

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

Hi all,
This spring I am teaching Space & Critical Cartographies (grad course). As I update my syllabus I am looking for RECOMMENDATIONS. Thus far we're reading:
-Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible 🧵
#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

-Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States
-Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism
-Incarcerated stories: Indigenous women migrants and violence in the settler-capitalist state 🧵

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

Looking for recommendations for a tenant rights lawyer in the City of LA. Any promising leads are appreciated.

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

@gtzarcelia That's amazing Arcelia! Congrats!

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

🤎🦗⛰

[mony @moneycaa]

There was so many young oaxaqueños at todays protest 🥲🫶🦗 we doing good

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

Yesterday's march is nothing short of what has been built by our elders in the past 50+ yrs throughout #California and what as children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren we continue to build and sustain- Indigenous sovereignty! #Indigenous #Sovereignty #Oaxacans #TongvaLand

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

Indigenous Oaxacans have always been a woke giant wherever we go (#LA) and our ancestral homelands in (#Oaxaca)! If we weren't, their would be no Bandas Oaxaqueñas, bailables tradicionales, Oaxacan hometown associations, orgs, kermeses, convivios, ventas d comida, stores...

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

My Oaxacan heart yesterday, today, and always! 🦗⛰️🤎✊🏾

[Polemicist @PalmTreesnGz]

This is one of the flyest signs I saw being carried by a compa: “Oaxakoreatown foo”

[Joél Leon. @JoelakaMaG]

being soft in a world begging you to resist the love in you is a revolutionary practice.

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

*start calling it

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

When r we going to stop calling it by its name, RACIAL VIOLENCE?! When our Indigenous & Black children are attacked for the color of their skin, certain features, etc. it is not bullying!!! IT IS RACIAL VIOLENCE! WHITE (LATINX) SUPREMACY INHERENTLY TIED TO SETTLER COLONIALISM!!!

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

This sh*t is so triggering! It is an emotional rollercoaster! I just hope that for those children who like myself tried to hurt ourselves and internalized self-hate for how we look can overcome all this! #IndigenousAlways #Brownisbeautiful #Blackisbeautiful #BlackandBrown #LA

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

*Multiple Indigenous Oaxacan band members come together* at #LACityHall during a vigil with Black community members to demand the resignation of Martinez, Cedillo, & DeLeon. ❤️ #Gozona #Indigenous #Black #LA #Oaxaca

[Memo Torres 🌮 @el_tragon_de_LA]

Oaxaqueños dance to a traditional Oaxacan band on the steps of city hall after a vigil along side the black community to demand Council Members Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo, and Kevin De León resign.

[mony @moneycaa]

Hi Nury @CD6Nury ! To answer your questions…I’m one of those short brown Oaxacans living in Koreatown. I’m from a “village” in los Valles Centrales. Who are you? 🤎 #happyindigenouspeoplesday

[MVR @mvasquezruiz13]

Nury Martinez, Kevin de León, Gill Cedillo & Ron Herrera’s comments are very illustrative of the limits of latinidad. In a conversation about building a “ Latino caucus” they made it clear that us, Oaxacans are a racial other. “ Short little dark people” they do not represent.

[We Are IOC @Ioc_Socal]

Sharing this so our community is aware of the anti-Black and anti-Indigenous remarks made by LA City Councilmembers Nury Martínez, Kevin de Leon, and Gil Cedillo.
In this excerpt of a longer audio leaked from a 2021 meeting, they make racist remarks about Oaxacans in Koreatown.

[Willie Quiroz @noturpapichulo]

It really does not surprise me how Anti-Indigenous and Anti-Black these Mexican LA politicians are. We hear it all the time from Indigenous/Oaxacan folks from LA who face this rhetoric daily from non-Indigenous Mexicans. And 9 times out of 10 it's always the LA Chicanos who

[Brenda Nicolas (Zoochina Zapotec) @bnico004]

Soy de un pueblo alegre!!! Oaxacans are beautiful! We continue to exist & resist! Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! #Guelaguetza 1999 #Picounion #LA #Oaxaca #Oaxacans #happyindigenouspeoplesday