Dana Maya Chong graduated with honors from a Bachelor’s Degree Program in Modern Languages and Cultural Management at Universidad Anáhuac Mexico. Since she was a little girl, she has had a passion for writing and literature, which inspired her to study languages and their intersection with culture. She attended the seminar “The Weird and Uncanny” (Narradoras de lo extraño y perturbador. Autoras que hoy desarrollan lo insólito in Spanish) by the Carlos Fuentes Literary Department. In this seminar, she explored the contemporary lens by which female authors engage in social, literary terror. She was Deputy Director of the research project “Periods in Movement” (Periodos en Movimiento in Spanish), that discussed menstrual management in migration contexts. She is passionate about language and literary criticism with a feminist perspective.
Even though I studied in a private university and primarily in high-class contexts, my professors always had an inclusive approach to teaching, as well as inclusive practices towards my classmates. During my university years, I began to explore my interest in activism, and thanks to my lessons in cultural analysis, I was introduced to community processes and feminism. During this program, most of the authors and academics that were part of the curriculum were women. This nurtured my interest in literary criticism and the various perspectives from which we read and analyze texts and language in general.
My academic experiences carry and denounce privilege; since I was little, I have had high acquisitive power, and the bourgeois context of my family has given me an academic background not everyone in my country has. My exposure to spaces of private education has been defined by different violences and experiences, shaping my life and how I perceive privilege. Frequenting those spaces obliged me to recognize my own privilege and understand that social justice is something that will always concern me.
My experiences as a woman and my political stances will be an essential part of this blog. I believe that every text, regardless of length, is and should be political.
