Giselle Galindo

A first-generation Mexican-Dominican raised by an immigrant parent in San Antonio, Texas, I bring a distinct perspective shaped by a deep commitment to preserving and amplifying diverse voices and narratives. I have collaborated with community leaders, educators, non-profits, and artistic organizations to create initiatives that create change and support collective goals.

Project Title: Somos Nopales

Project Description: This project is a decolonial and creative research project rooted in the symbolism and lived realities represented by the nopal, an enduring, resistant, and nourishing plant native to the borderlands. This theory uses the body of the nopal (root, stem, pads/thorns, flower, and fruit) as a conceptual framework to examine Mexican, Chicanx, and Latinx experiences across intersecting issues like identity, migration, performance, and systemic violence. This theory invites collaborators, students, and community members to explore the complexities of border identities through storytelling, performance, research, and creative expression. Drawing on interdisciplinary methodologies like performance studies, critical race theory, geography, and oral histories. Nopal Theory is both a framework and a praxis for healing, remembering, and imagining liberation across physical and psychic borders.

Project Inspiration: Inspiration from lived experience and knowledge for more, and communal healing/space building.

Academic Interests: Performance Studies, Teatro, Resistance, Community preserving, Chicanismo, Mexican-American Studies, Latinx diaspora, Afro-Latinx identity