https://www.magamiranda.com/events daily 0.75 2025-05-13 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/society-for-cinema-and-media-studies monthly 0.5 2025-05-13 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/la-burning-capitalism-climate-change-and-resistance monthly 0.5 2025-05-11 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/good-tech-for-good-jobs-strategies-for-building-worker-power-in-the-age-of-ai monthly 0.5 2024-12-12 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/i9jafwexlyqtes7vm1seg0yjvglu5q monthly 0.5 2024-01-29 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/setting-the-night-on-fire-remembering-mike-davis-radical-walking-tour monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/behind-the-scenesunheard-voices-of-the-strike monthly 0.5 2023-05-08 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/us8oqnecg3q1pcvd2w2mbpsk6ldc8u monthly 0.5 2023-04-25 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/how-to-make-a-revolution-a-conversation-with-christina-heatherton monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/talk-putting-history-in-domestic-workers-hands-popular-education-and-the-digital-humanities monthly 0.5 2022-11-09 https://www.magamiranda.com/events/unsettleddebtslaunch monthly 0.5 2022-10-19 https://www.magamiranda.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/42dc5b92-7327-48d0-b915-5831009c69c7/Untitled+design-9.jpg Home Dr. Magally "Maga" Miranda (she/they) is an interdisciplinary, community-engaged scholar and Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Pomona College. They earned their PhD in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from UCLA and a BA in Feminist Studies and Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz. Their interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of race, gender, science and technology, and digital media. Their current book project, Data Intimacies: Latina Workers and the Data-Driven Politics of Care, reflects a decade of acompañamiento with the domestic workers’ movement, and explores the datafication of domestic labor, its transformation into an object of data-driven knowledge and administrative power, and the activist media-making practices of Latina domestic workers. Their writing has appeared in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, New Media and Society, and Critical Ethnic Studies as well as public-facing venues such as The Nation, Truthout, Verso, and the New Left Review. She serves on the editorial board of Spectre, a journal of Marxist theory, strategy, and analysis. https://www.magamiranda.com/publications daily 0.75 2024-12-12 https://www.magamiranda.com/research daily 0.75 2025-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/e2f6d75b-8275-4223-8117-19ae396ab79e/Screenshot+2025-05-05+at+5.50.09%E2%80%AFPM.png Research - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/3165b034-bedf-43d5-bc42-533ad5fa0cd0/Screenshot+2024-12-12+at+12.39.07%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Research - chambatok In the days of the Bracero Program (1942-1964), if you were a worker looking for your next gig, you might be directed to the Chamber of Commerce, which was tasked with hooking up agricultural workers and farm owners. Over time, the Chamber of Commerce became simply “la chamba.” My research archives and analyzes the phenomenon Latinx content creators who stream themselves at work, which I call “ChambaTok.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/5a62e4ef-71b0-405f-b3cb-7a8a80cabc68/Screenshot+2024-12-12+at+12.48.52%E2%80%AFPM.png Research - sustaining cross-border solidarities in the globalized economy There is a growing understanding that the challenges workers face, particularly women, are inherently transnational and require cross-border strategies rooted in shared struggles and collective organizing. Analyzing the successes and failures of previous efforts at cross-border solidarities between women in the US and Mexico, my research discusses ongoing efforts by labor organizations in the United States, Canada and Mexico to create bottom-up strategies of global cooperation and solidarity among workers. Through ethnographic research with domestic workers in Mexico City and Los Angeles, this research explores mechanisms for sustaining cross-border solidarities including workshops, documentation, and monthly meetings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/597145ed-b68a-4d85-b57a-c6a371f0a7df/Screenshot+2025-01-31+at+9.11.34%E2%80%AFAM.png Research - copy + paste latina: style and stereotype on social media This article examines the phenomenon of the “Copy Paste Latina” makeup trend, an aesthetic marked by heavy makeup application, including contouring, false lashes, and sharply defined brows, often shared through “Get Ready With Me” (GRWM) videos on social media. Originating as a style popularized by social media influencer Brooklyn Chipman, who adopted the moniker “Una Gutierrez,” the look quickly gained traction as an aspirational beauty standard among Latina and non-Latina audiences alike. However, Chipman’s “Latina-fishing” — adopting a Latinx identity to capitalize on its associated beauty ideals while concealing her white identity — sparked controversy, exposing both the allure and tensions surrounding the aesthetic. Drawing on Ruha Benjamin’s concept of “stereotype” as both a technical and social template, this paper explores how the Copy Paste Latina look operates as a digital stereotype, one that conveys a fixed, commodified, replicable version of Latina femininity. With influencers like James Charles amplifying the look’s appeal through bold brows, lips, and lashes, the look is often monetized these features via brand sponsorships. By adopting these markers of “Latina beauty,” non-Latina influencers and white beauty enthusiasts both perpetuate and flatten diverse Latinx identities into consumable digital templates. This aesthetic, while celebrated for its vibrancy and defiance of minimalist beauty trends, also reveals an underlying social commentary: the simultaneous allure and erasure of Latina identity as a marketable, replicable standard. In analyzing this phenomenon, I argue that the Copy Paste Latina encapsulates the tensions between cultural appreciation and appropriation, gendered labor in beauty economies, and the entanglement of digital femininity with racialized forms of visibility. https://www.magamiranda.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/ff4a2419-fda8-4f2f-b227-77bc754f438e/Headshot+3.jpg Contact - Contact Available for public media, speaking engagements, and facilitation opportunities: Speaking Engagements, Keynotes, Public Lectures On-Air Television and Radio Presenter Media Commentator Event Host, Moderator, and MC For all inquiries, bookings, and media requests, please get in contact via email at mmji2024@pomona.edu. https://www.magamiranda.com/curriculum-vitae daily 0.75 2025-11-07 https://www.magamiranda.com/courses daily 0.75 2025-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/bd6df876-1506-40ca-9f45-20c186cf464f/image10.jpg Courses - Make it stand out The diagram by Nasir Anthony Montalvo An expanded view of the diagram specific to Montalvo’s work with Black queer Midwestern archive, {B/qKC}. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/ba8cf7a8-6703-43cb-ac22-177b1e41d96c/17sleep-600.jpg Courses - Make it stand out Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008) https://www.magamiranda.com/syllabi daily 0.75 2023-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/efd17483-990f-47a6-9e6e-e606b023cd56/3745-ovarianpsycos2.jpg Syllabi - Chicanas/Latinas in contemporary society CSULA, Fall 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605157db0c5c911997543ba1/40077ea5-ace3-47eb-85a6-4937a7e5cef8/Issues+in+Latinao+Poverty.png Syllabi - Latinx Poverty: Mexican and Central American Voices from Los Angeles UCLA, Summer 2023 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