jotxs y recuerdos

A podcast & archive that documents queer life from the Rio Grande Valley and other borderlands

JOTXs Y RECUERDOS

A podcast and archive that documents queer life from the Rio Grande Valley and other borderlands. Created and hosted by Alexandra Nichole Salazar, a queer Chicana from Pharr, a border town in South Texas. She is also a PhD Candidate in the Mexican-American/Latinx Studies department at the University of Texas at Austin, where her research focuses on queer and anti-colonial borderland archives, memory making practices, and theories.


  • RUBÉN GARZA

    RUBÉN GARZA

    Rubén Garza, a Non-Binary Trans poet and artivist from Edinburg, TX, discusses their work with Voces Unidas, a collective that fosters community in the Rio…

  • Hilda and TEE

    Hilda and TEE

    Hilda and Tee, are a Black lesbian couple who have been married for 29 years and counting. Hilda, born in Louisiana, moved to California at…

  • La Otra Taller Nepantla Residency

    La Otra Taller Nepantla Residency

    Anel Flores, a queer/lesbian Chicana story maker, discusses her inception and impact of La Otra Taller Nepantla Artist Residency, held February 2021 in Arroyo City,…

  • DANIELLE SMALL

    DANIELLE SMALL

    Danielle Small, a writer based in Atlanta, discusses their journey from Jamaica to rural Wisconsin, highlighting their experiences as a queer, non-binary individual. They also…

  • VICKIE VÉRTIZ

    VICKIE VÉRTIZ

    Join us for our Bonus Episode where we explore Nepantla, Borderlands, and Queerness with Vickie Vértiz, a Queer Chicana Poet and Professor from California. Vickie…

  • EDDIE PIÑA

    EDDIE PIÑA

    For this episode, we interview Eddie Piña, your favorite gay Tio. Join us as he recounts his journey to accepting his HIV diagnosis in 2013,…