The Underrepresentation of Latinx Bodies in Sci-Fi For decades, science fiction has imagined the future as a place where brown bodies either don’t exist or only survive as villains, aliens, or disposable labor. The genre loves to predict tomorrow, but it often does so by erasing Latinx/o/a people from it entirely. When we do appear, we’re trapped in a racialized past, tied to violence, intuition, and survival rather than progress. Sci-fi futures may look global, but their hi

Alita: Battle Angel is a vibrant, layered world mirrored the social disparities often explored in Latin American cinema

A "house of mirrors," the book spans eras—from the Republic of Texas to a dystopian future Atlanta to 1990s Los Angeles.

rooted in a vision of futurity that both resists Latinx dispossession and dismantles economies of thirst that propagate it

Fernando Flores’s Brother Brontë--a novel that delves into the power of literature and the transformative role of storytelling.

Major Thomás deserves a space among the pop culture fictions that feature Latinx characters

Sanctuary is about escaping a horrific regime, while Solis focuses on fighting back to build a better world.

This exhibit challenges me to reframe past, present, and future as more cyclical than linear.

nothing can prepare you for the unique voice that is Iniguez in his debut poetry collection Mexicans on the Moon!

Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher’s YA novel, Solis asks, how imminent a future can dystopian fiction imagine for young readers?

I wanted to conceive of the future in a radically different way. One where the new gens look to philosophy, literature, art & science. . .