Reunion.
Sister! come lay with me
on the mossy greens
Next to glittering blue streams
See how the sun peeks
through leaves
and branches above us
Don’t you feel the cool Air recognize you?
As She dances with the leaves
Leaving only a symphony of
sway
Touching the Sun’s heat
Do you hear Their songs?
What beauty we reverie
With Condor Rivers
Wild Lily Falls
And Sweet smiles of a crescent Moon
Mystic Daughter of the Firmament
Let your skin
Blend into the Earth
It’s your Home, too
—
María-Teresa Carmier Villalobos is an interdimensional Black-Indigenous mother, artist, and design practitioner at UC Berkeley. She integrates her roles as an educator, researcher, and technologist to advance the field of Feminist Science, Technology & Society. Her research investigates the relationships between empowering communities of color, their environment, and their education with STEAM. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, and education, she develops tools and methods to foster a more equitable and dynamic future for all.
