Author Biography

Daniel Gallardo

Daniel Gallardo (they/them) is a nonbinary Mestizx from Mexico and public scholar at the University of British Columbia whose doctoral research supports educators in recognizing the relationships between sexuality, gender, racialization, and settler colonialism. Daniel works in educational leadership and curriculum with a passion and commitment to decolonizing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) education and Indigenous resurgence. They collaborate with community organizations to develop curricular practices that positively affect the well-being of those who regularly experience gender-based violence. Daniel also gives life to Gaia Lacandona, a drag mutant who drags up trans and queer youth and creates a space for them to imagine otherwise.

Martín Pech

Martín Pech was born in 1991. He is an illustrator and graphic designer who works in digital and physical mediums. He has worked in the fields of editorial design, branding, and digital product design. He also dedicates himself to being an illustrator for different clients such as visual artists, publishers, companies from different industries, and friends. He firmly believes that the image is a powerful medium to spread any message, which begins in the collective memory and dies in oblivion. Fortunately, few images actually die: one image works between the space of the past history of many others and the future possibility of those to come.