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Dr. Corona Aguilar is an artist and writer whose work focuses on migrant embodied religion and the collective power of textual, visual, and cultural knowledge production within migrant detention centers. In their (auto)ethnographic practice, Corona Aguilar is committed to centering the narratives of migrants that are detained—including her own family members—because she believes it is both a theoretical and political intervention into human rights discourse that unintentionally instrumentalized narratives of victimhood and migrant suffering. In her writing and cultural commentary, Corona Aguilar traces the lineages of sacred world-making that shape migrant’s visions of liberation..
La Dra. Corona Aguilar es una artista y escritora cuyo trabajo se centra en la religión encarnada de los migrantes y el poder colectivo de la producción de conocimiento textual, visual y cultural dentro de los centros de detención de migrantes. En su práctica (auto)etnográfica, Corona Aguilar se compromete a centrar las narrativas de los migrantes detenidos—incluidos sus propios familiares—porque cree que es una intervención tanto teórica como política en el discurso de derechos humanos que involuntariamente instrumentalizó narrativas de victimismo y sufrimiento de los migrantes. En sus escritos y comentarios culturales, Corona Aguilar rastrea los linajes de la creación de mundos sagrados que dan forma a las visiones de liberación de los migrantes.
Creating Community is a Threat to Power: Three Years of Resourcing Revolution and Liberation at the Sex Worker Giving Circle by Christian Giraldo and Maryse Mitchell-Brody, with support from Third Wave Fund staff. Edited by Itzel Corona Aguilar and Adrienne Wong, 2021.
A Review of Rightlessness: Testimony, and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II by Naomi A. Paik, Hemispheric Institute, Vol. 14.1, 2018.
“Nepantler@ Testimonios: A Discussion of Risking the Personal, Trauma, and Border-Crossing Movements in Higher Education” in El Mundo Zurdo 6: Selected works from the 2016 meeting of theSociety for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (Aunt lute, Vol. 6., 2018).