micha cárdenas is an artist, author and Associate Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her debut novel Atoms Never Touch (AK Press 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph Poetic Operations : Trans of Color Art in Digital Media(Duke UP 2022) was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association. cárdenas is an editor of the journal Transgender Studies Quarterly. She is the director of the Critical Realities Studio. Her artworks have been shown at museums, galleries and biennials internationally.
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