Danielle López, Author at Deceleration

Danielle López

Danielle López, PhD (two spirit) is a born & raised Nepantlera from the settler occupied medicine gardens of Aztlan, Coahuiltecan, Ndé Kónitsąąíí – Lipan Apache, Esto’k Gna (Carrizo/Comecrudo) territories, better known as the Río Grande Valley of the Transfronteriza at the U.S-Mexico Borderlands. They are a seventh generation curandera in practice, activist, researcher, and educator of the spiritual literacy of their ancestral medicine. Centering curanderismo, their Border Arte-scholarship focuses on empowering communities via their ancestral wellness praxis. They promote the collaborative plática of all healing cultures to foster pathways for spiritual reparations. Their autohistoria-teoria is archived at the Latin Smithsonian Museum, the University of Houston Center for Public History, and the Indigenous People’s Caucus of Texas.

Peace and Dignity Journeys Offering Prayers for the Intercontinental Community

By Danielle López ● Decolonial ● August 10, 2024

Though officially begun in 1992, the routes run by the Peace and Dignity Journeys trace an unbroken ancestral history of migration and ceremony across Abya Yala that continues more than 500 year later. A report back from the prayer run as it moved its way south through San Pedro Park in San Antonio.

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