Ángeles Donoso Macaya

Interim Associate Director

Ángeles Donoso Macaya (she/they) is an immigrant feminist scholar and writer from Santiago, Chile, based in New York. She is Professor of Spanish at BMCC and affiliated faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures and Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her teaching interests and writing span Latin American and Caribbean photography, human rights activism and counter-archival production, documentary film, (trans)feminisms, migration studies, memory studies, public humanities, and environmental humanities. She co-edited WSQ´s “No estamos a la intemperie: Open Call” (Spring 2025) and is author of The Insubordination of Photography (U Florida Press 2020; 2023) / La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales 2021); Lanallwe (Tusquets 2023); and archivo imperfecto (Metales Pesados 2023; with photographer Paz Errázuriz). Between 2020-2023, she co-led Archives in Common: Migrant Practices/ Knowledges/Memory. Ángeles is member of The Social Text Collective and CUNY FSJP. She is co-founder of the collective somoslacélula.

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We Know Our Rights! Cross-CUNY Sanctuary Campus Info and Organizing Session

March 11, 2025

Participating Years

2025–2026

Mobility: Transit and Transformation

Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.

2024–2025

Anti-Capitalist Environmentalism

The existential problems of the planet are complex. Given capitalism’s obsessive growth primed by, for instance, land-grabbing, extractivism, social and economic hierarchies, and war, capitalist environmentalism leans heavily on tweaking armageddon to maintain its hold on futurity for the planet.