Margie (they/she) is a 5th year phd student, living as a guest on the lands of the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankashaw, Wea, Miami, Mascoutin, Odawa, Sauk, Mesquaki, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Chickasaw Nations.
Their work explores the relationships between language, identity, and land in Bolivia. They work with Bolivian feminists and gender and sexual dissidents who use multilingual strategies between Quechua, Spanish, English, and other Indigenous languages to refuse, reproduce, or reinvent meanings about themselves for healing, joy, and pleasure. Margie is interested in how these intersubjective strategies create politics of care and if they have the ability to transform assumptions of belonging in Bolivia and the Andes by centering Indigenous dissident languages and desires for futurity.