Biography
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.
Margie has a minor in GWS Studies, Queer Theory Studies, and American Indian Studies. Their advisors are Dr. Orta and Dr. Davis. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to them!
Research Interests
language, semiotics, inter/subjectivity and relational personhood, land, decolonial and anticolonial methods, Latinx and Latin American feminisms, queer & cuir theory, Bolivia and the Andes