Imaynalla Kashanki? Hello, how are you? I'm a reconnecting Quechua warmi with ancestral lineages from Bolivia (Qullasuyu). My lineage holds histories of migration and cultural perseverance through her father's Andean music. As a queer and neurodivergent first-generation student of the Andean diaspora, I am reconnecting with my ancestry through returning to my heritage foodways, language, cosmovisions, and Land-based practices. <\/p>\n
I'm currently a PhD candidate in the environmental studies department at UC Santa Cruz studying whether and how the revitalization of Quechua and Chiquitano agrobiodiversity practices and biocultural memories can support re-peasantization and Indigenous food sovereignty in Bolivia's Altiplano and Chiquitania. As an aspiring scholar-activist, I center decolonial, feminist, and critical (auto)ethnographic methodologies through practices of relationality (minka) and reciprocity (ayni) with Quechua, Chiquitano, and more-than-human autonomy, oral histories, memories, and reclamation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imaynalla Kashanki? Hello, how are you? I'm a reconnecting Quechua warmi with ancestral lineages from Bolivia (Qullasuyu). My lineage holds histories of migration and cultural perseverance through her father's Andean music. As a queer and neurodivergent first-generation student of the Andean diaspora, I am reconnecting with my ancestry through returning to my heritage foodways, language,… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"location":[1269,1270],"class_list":["post-23807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-sciences","location-bolivia","location-cochabamba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flocation&post=23807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}