COLDANDWETFROMTHEEARTH
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​​Mira is an abolitionist artist, educator, researcher, and organizer based in Chicago. Their work explores global histories of resistance with a focus on the role state violence, censorship, and manufactured scarcity have had on our collective ability to imagine other realities and ways of life. Through the pursuit of alternative modes of documentation and cultural preservation, they seek forms and means of memory work that do not rely on imperial and colonial tools of capture and subjugation and instead rehearse collective liberation.

You can find more of their work on Instagram @coldandwetfromtheearth.

​​They are currently the General Manager at abolitionist gallery and community space Walls Turned Sideways based in East Garfield. 

Mira holds a Master of Art’s in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Michigan where they studied Ethnic Studies, Art History, and Ceramics.

They have worked with the following organizations: Walls Turned Sideways, The Digs, Patric McCoy Legacy Project/Diasporal Rhythms, Groundcover News, Michigan Student Power Alliance, and NON:Opera Arts & Humanities.


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Keywords for an Archival Unraveling
Spring 2025

Series of 5 saddle-stitch bound pamphlets.




    Keywords for an Archival Unraveling is a love letter to the vast network of educators, researchers, and artists whose work with and against archives has influenced my own practices as a researcher, educator, and artist. It is an invitation to think critically and rigorously with others about what it means to teach with and against archives in pursuit of an archival unraveling. I hope that the ideas presented in this thesis — via my conversations with Josh MacPhee, Maria Cotera, Deirdre de la Cruz, Josh Rios, and Nicole Marroquin and my own theorizing on speculative memory work and archival fissures — may serve as invitation to others to pursue other modes of unraveling in their own teaching and learning with archives. The archive will not free us, but perhaps through its gaps, its omissions, and its fissures we may glimpse other tomorrows.