Publications & Multimedia Work

Rosa’s poetry, visual art, and multimedia work have been published in Digna Rabia: A Digital Journal in Chicana/o/x Studies, Volume 4 Issue 2 (Spring 2024). Her contributions include “Gritos de Autonomía (Un Poema)” (pg. 4), and two digital art prints: “Comandanta Ramona” (see below), which honors Indigenous women’s resistance, autonomy, and liberation, and “Lucha y Poder” (see below), an homage to Zapatista women and their ongoing work in grassroots organizing, cultural preservation, and self-determination.

Also in this issue is a podcast episode titled “Canvas of Resistance” in which Rosa co-created in collaboration with film photographer and block printer Ashley Marguerite Papias. The episode engages indigenous feminist struggle, zapatismo, and the philosophical frameworks of dignity and revolt through dialogue between art, scholarship, and lived experience.

Across these works, she examines how Zapatista women’s revolutionary thought and practice continue to inform contemporary cultural and political imaginaries.

Rosa was featured in EASTSIDE Magazine’s 2024 NAHUI, featuring her short story “Where Sage Meets the West” (pgs. 22–23). The work reflects on colonial geography, intergenerational knowledge, and the cultural inheritances that shape how mental health is understood and medicinally treated as a Xicana Latina. 

“Where Sage Meets the West” recounts a dream of her late grandmother in 2024, using her memory to examine the vulnerabilities and contradictions of navigating mental health through both Western psychiatry and familial medicine. She considers how these paths become entangled within her own lived experiences and those of Chicana Latina women--particularly when knowledge of the body and self are passed through generations alongside the psychiatric institutions that have historically sought to define, diagnose, and regulate women of color. Her story engages with the Coyolxauhqui imperative as a framework for understanding fragmentation and the possibility of becoming whole through the recovery of dismembered histories.