Michael Paramo

◈ Profile

Michael Paramo (b. 1993) is a Mexican-American artist and researcher who was born on the unceded homelands of the Tongva in southern California. His work broadly focuses on soul repair and interconnectedness in the modern/colonial world from a queer anti-colonial perspective. He created the literary art journal AZE (azejournal.com) in 2016. His dissertation focused on the use of autoethnographic intuitive artmaking as a method of transformative education.

◈ Book

Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identity (Unbound, 2024). Course-recommended by Ingram Academic in Political Sociology (2024). Cited in Sexualities, Southern Cultures, Journal of Tolkien Research, and Context: A Journal of Music Research.

◈ Dissertation

“Mutant Methodologies: Intuitive Mixed-Media Autoethnographic Approaches Toward Transformative Education” (2026), Ph.D., Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, University of British Columbia. Supervisory Committee: Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Erin Baines

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Contact: mdparamo@gmail.com