Dr. Anahí Ponce is a scholar and cultural worker from El Paso, Texas. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in Chicanx and Latinx Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Critical Digital Studies, Borderlands Studies, Latina/Chicana Feminisms, and Queer of Color Critique. Her research examines how fronterizas/es have historically and contemporarily, worked with and against technology in their political mobilizations. Her forthcoming manuscript, Transborder Fronterizas/es: Digital Praxis in the Borderlands, charts these legacies as they have occurred in the Paso del Norte borderlands region.
Dr. Ponce works as editor, researcher, and creative director for Malflora Collective, a community project dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of Latina/e lesbians through the publication of a magazine, podcast, and forthcoming digital archive. Dr. Ponce’s writing has appeared in the Journal for Lesbian Studies and Siren! A Magazine for Feminism, Media, and Activism housed at the University of Pennsylvania.
Writer, Researcher, Fronteriza.
2020-2026 - Ph.D. Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
2020-2022 - M.A. Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
2016-2020 - B.A. magna cum laude, English and American Literature, The University of Texas at El Paso