Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón

Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón is a diasporic Puerto Rican feminist scholar of identity, community, and resistance. Her essays appear in journals including Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. Her book Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora (New York University Press, 2018) is the first academic study on women’s participation within hip-hop graffiti art subculture. She spends her summers as a butterfly doula helping monarchs on their migration journey and can otherwise be found baking breads, crafting, playing with her human and nonhuman children, or in a forest admiring the moss.