Author: Ilene Palacios

In the Gozamos corner of the world, Ilene contributes editing, management, social media engagement, art- and activism-minded articles and event organizing. She also co-manages its home base, the community and arts space called Cultura in Pilsen, which currently has a residency at La Catrina Cafe. Additionally, Ilene is an co-organizer for Vives Q, an annual series by and for the queer Latinx community, which features performances, art, music and intergenerational dialogue via interviews with community leaders and activists; Vives Q recently launched a Labs series that aims to take the lessons learned from the series into more proactive gatherings. In whatever spare time she has got left after all of this and her day job as a legal and labor relations assistant, Ilene likes to chain-watch TV shows in her PJs and eat all the food and read all the books. She also likes to write poetry and is currently working on a sci-fi novella in hopes that she can one day be the xicana Octavia Butler-slash-Nayyirah Waheed. Instagram / Twitter / Snapchat @ilenethealeph