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Publications

2022-2024

How My Summer Vacation Became My Somatic Awakening

"My body began spasming and shaking. Sweat beading up everywhere. Panic, panic, panic attack attacking me. Breathe. Aimee Takaya (my friend, yoga instructor, and Hanna Somatic Educator) kept her hands on my shoulders, letting me know I was safe. I was not being attacked. I was being held. A terrifying feeling after running away from love for 8.5 years. The only person who had held me during that time was a friend who also pushed me away. It left me in a state of unrest—terrified of being loved. Hypervigilant. (Or maybe I just needed someone to be the one to push me.) Possibly searched for the one. (Maybe I found exactly who I wanted.) Now I wasn’t just trying to escape pain and loss, I was ready to leave my skin behind." ...Read the rest on Women Who Submit here:

Cultural Daily: Two Poems

"Mother Says Don't Be Like the Street Urchin's Down the Street" and "Dad Says I'm Like a Horse." 2024.

Constructions. Boundless 2022. Rio Grande Valley Poetry Festival. TX. 2022.                                                          Editor of Boundless 2022. Rio Grande Valley Poetry. Festival. TX. 2022.

Stanford University: Life in Quarantine/Words in Quarantine Project.  2022.

How I Mourn In September.  Juurnal of Radical Wonder. Medium. 2022.

Sanctuary’s Silent Song, Spectrum: Online Edition, CA. 2022

Am I Invisible?, The Journal of Radical Wonder, NY. 2022

PUBLICATIONS

2020-1995

   …And So, The Wind Was Born. FlowerSong Press. TX. 2020.

 

Sexual Violence and the Assimilation Response of LGBTQ2 Female Identified Latina and Indigenous Americans. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. IL. 2018.

 

(Hidden Dreams). The OtherSide: The Revival Issue. Pitzer, CA. 2017

 

 Got Culture: School of Visual and Performing Arts. Commercial Art for the Chaffey Review. Chaffey College. 2015-2016.

 

The Chaffey Review: Volume 13. 2015

February 5th. Creative Nonfiction.

Planting Kisses. Poetry.

 

Inkblot Series #1: Inkblot#001. Ink. 2012. Art.
Collaboration: Camille Alaras and Gina Duran

What’s in a Mother’s Purse? Series: Gina. Ceramic art.

What’s in a Mother’s Purse? Series: Purse #4. Ceramic art.                                                                           

 

The Chaffey Review: Volume 12. Abuse and Suicide. Ink. Art. 2014.

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The Chaffey Review: Volume 11. Wonder Woman and Batwoman, Equality in TIME. Acrylic Ink. 2013. Art.

 

The Fontan Herald: FOHI Focus: Steeler Students Get Set For ‘Wizard of Oz. Article. 1995.

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