MT Vallarta (they/them/their[s]) is a queer and non-binary Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where they study queer and feminist theory, digital humanist inquiry, and Filipinx poetics. Their work is published and forthcoming in Rabbit Catastrophe Press, Nat. Brut, Apogee Journal, Vice Media’s Broadly, Weird Sister, TAYO Literary Magazine, and others. MT is a recipient of PAWA’s Manuel G. Flores Prize and is currently a Digital Humanities Fellow at UCR.