micha cárdenas
@michacard.bsky.social
Artist; Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Author of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (2022 Duke) and Atoms Never Touch (Novel, 2023 AK Press). Palestine will be free!
Dear friends, I have been promoted to full Professor. I am so, so grateful to everyone who supported me, my partner, my mentors, my colleagues, my letter writers, my students, my editors, and the curators who have shown my work. Thank you. I hope this is meaningful for many.
September 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Dear friends, I have been promoted to full Professor. I am so, so grateful to everyone who supported me, my partner, my mentors, my colleagues, my letter writers, my students, my editors, and the curators who have shown my work. Thank you. I hope this is meaningful for many.
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Picked up this whole pack of Nee Mutants #comics written by @charliejane.bsky.social today at my local comic shop Atlantis Fantasyworld! So excited to read these!!
September 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Picked up this whole pack of Nee Mutants #comics written by @charliejane.bsky.social today at my local comic shop Atlantis Fantasyworld! So excited to read these!!
My book Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke 2022) looks at artwork by trans people of color, and other artists, who work for the survival of trans people of color. I examine anti-surveillance art, performance, protest & digital games
www.dukeupress.edu/poetic-opera...
www.dukeupress.edu/poetic-opera...
August 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My book Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke 2022) looks at artwork by trans people of color, and other artists, who work for the survival of trans people of color. I examine anti-surveillance art, performance, protest & digital games
www.dukeupress.edu/poetic-opera...
www.dukeupress.edu/poetic-opera...
Weekend reminder that I wrote a t4t romance sci-fi novel titled Atoms Never Touch! About which Kai Cheng Thom said “A shockingly powerful, wrenchingly beautiful queer cyberpunk fable from debut novelist and veteran artist micha cárdenas…”
www.akpress.org/atoms-never-...
www.akpress.org/atoms-never-...
August 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Weekend reminder that I wrote a t4t romance sci-fi novel titled Atoms Never Touch! About which Kai Cheng Thom said “A shockingly powerful, wrenchingly beautiful queer cyberpunk fable from debut novelist and veteran artist micha cárdenas…”
www.akpress.org/atoms-never-...
www.akpress.org/atoms-never-...
So thrilled to have this special issue of TSQ on #Trans Speculative Media & Fiction in my hands! It arrived today!! Congrats to special issue editors @jedsamer.bsky.social @caelkeegan.bsky.social & all of the authors! It was an honor to be the general editor for this! Thanks @dukepress.bsky.social!
May 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
So thrilled to have this special issue of TSQ on #Trans Speculative Media & Fiction in my hands! It arrived today!! Congrats to special issue editors @jedsamer.bsky.social @caelkeegan.bsky.social & all of the authors! It was an honor to be the general editor for this! Thanks @dukepress.bsky.social!
For #tdov I want to share that I wrote a novel, Atoms Never Touch, about two trans Latina women falling in love while fighting fascism and trying to build a device to travel to alternate universes! Get it from @akpress.org and Enjoy!
March 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
For #tdov I want to share that I wrote a novel, Atoms Never Touch, about two trans Latina women falling in love while fighting fascism and trying to build a device to travel to alternate universes! Get it from @akpress.org and Enjoy!
Protect the trans community’s right to vote! “H.R.22 would require all Americans to provide documentation of their citizenship, in person, when registering to vote or updating… for many trans people, might not reflect the name that they use.”
action.transequality.org/a/stop-save-...
action.transequality.org/a/stop-save-...
March 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Protect the trans community’s right to vote! “H.R.22 would require all Americans to provide documentation of their citizenship, in person, when registering to vote or updating… for many trans people, might not reflect the name that they use.”
action.transequality.org/a/stop-save-...
action.transequality.org/a/stop-save-...
My photos from the Autotheories: Intimacies of Relation conference at UCSC last week! It was such a joy, so enriching and thought provoking!
March 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My photos from the Autotheories: Intimacies of Relation conference at UCSC last week! It was such a joy, so enriching and thought provoking!
I am buying and reading books by trans women while we still can! I’m thrilled and inspired by the ones I received in the mail today! I can’t wait to read these amazing books by @caseyplett.bsky.social and @margaret.bsky.social !! So much brilliance and beauty here!!!!
March 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I am buying and reading books by trans women while we still can! I’m thrilled and inspired by the ones I received in the mail today! I can’t wait to read these amazing books by @caseyplett.bsky.social and @margaret.bsky.social !! So much brilliance and beauty here!!!!
Im happy to share that I’ll be speaking at the Bay Area Book Festival on June 1st, in dialog with Judith Butler, moderated by MK Chavez! Details will be on their site soon and I’ll post them then too! Sneak peak for now! www.baybookfest.org/2025-sneak-p... #books #scifi #gender #atomsnevertouch
March 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Im happy to share that I’ll be speaking at the Bay Area Book Festival on June 1st, in dialog with Judith Butler, moderated by MK Chavez! Details will be on their site soon and I’ll post them then too! Sneak peak for now! www.baybookfest.org/2025-sneak-p... #books #scifi #gender #atomsnevertouch
Started reading this gem by @charliejane.bsky.social tonight. I am so happy that I found it now. I already feel inspired, encouraged and moved. I cried, just a bit, for “found family”.
“Visualizing a happier, more just world is a direct assault on the forces that are trying to break your heart.”
“Visualizing a happier, more just world is a direct assault on the forces that are trying to break your heart.”
February 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Started reading this gem by @charliejane.bsky.social tonight. I am so happy that I found it now. I already feel inspired, encouraged and moved. I cried, just a bit, for “found family”.
“Visualizing a happier, more just world is a direct assault on the forces that are trying to break your heart.”
“Visualizing a happier, more just world is a direct assault on the forces that are trying to break your heart.”
Reading “Who’s Afraid of Gender” by Judith Butler, published last year. It’s very good and extremely timely. Very important reading for thinking through the anti-trans fascist govt that has taken over the US, but also for the global context.
February 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Reading “Who’s Afraid of Gender” by Judith Butler, published last year. It’s very good and extremely timely. Very important reading for thinking through the anti-trans fascist govt that has taken over the US, but also for the global context.
Quick intro: I’m an artist & professor. Photos are of my artworks Sin Sol and my book covers. Author of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke 2022) & Atoms Never Touch (AK Press 2023), a t4t abolitionist quantum sci-fi novel. Free Palestine!
January 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Quick intro: I’m an artist & professor. Photos are of my artworks Sin Sol and my book covers. Author of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (Duke 2022) & Atoms Never Touch (AK Press 2023), a t4t abolitionist quantum sci-fi novel. Free Palestine!
My t4t sci-fi novel Atoms Never Touch describes a fascist like Trump in all but name coming to power w/immigration raids, and attacks on queer and trans people. It also describes how we fight back and how some flee to other countries and how we can imagine our way into other realities. @akpress.org
January 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My t4t sci-fi novel Atoms Never Touch describes a fascist like Trump in all but name coming to power w/immigration raids, and attacks on queer and trans people. It also describes how we fight back and how some flee to other countries and how we can imagine our way into other realities. @akpress.org
From @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social : Breaking, young Angelenos displaced by fire are occupying the Phillips 66 Facility in LA to say: Make Oil CEO’s Pay!
January 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
From @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social : Breaking, young Angelenos displaced by fire are occupying the Phillips 66 Facility in LA to say: Make Oil CEO’s Pay!
I’m leading a seminar in Lyon, France this summer, open to students from any university! Please tell your students!!! Students will participate in the Camping festival of dance and performance. Email global learning to apply! More about camping at www.cnd.fr/en/page/33-c...
January 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’m leading a seminar in Lyon, France this summer, open to students from any university! Please tell your students!!! Students will participate in the Camping festival of dance and performance. Email global learning to apply! More about camping at www.cnd.fr/en/page/33-c...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 20- Captive Genders: #trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric Stanley & Nat Smith
January 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 20- Captive Genders: #trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric Stanley & Nat Smith
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
Day 19 - Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Donna J. Haraway
Day 19 - Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Donna J. Haraway
January 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
Day 19 - Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Donna J. Haraway
Day 19 - Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Donna J. Haraway
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
Day 18 - The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemesin
Day 18 - The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemesin
January 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
Day 18 - The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemesin
Day 18 - The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemesin