Alan Pelaez Lopez (unknown – current) is a scholar of migration, poetics, and settler colonialism, and an interdisciplinary artist.
Alan Pelaez Lopez was born in Mexico and migrated to the United States when they were five years old.
[1] Pelaez Lopez's first poetry collection, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien was published in 2020 by The Operating System, and was a finalist for the International Latino Book Award.
[2][3] In the collection, the author chronicles their migration via the use of poems, collages, performance documentation, and political asylum application forms to emphasize the material realities of Indigenous and Black immigrants.
Through the hashtag, Pelaez Lopez began to compose memes that sparked critical conversation about Anti-blackness and Indigenous erasure in discourse surrounding Latinx identity.