E Ornelas
Contributor
E Ornelas (no pronouns or they/them) is a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. As the descendant of a survivor of the Sherman Institute, a Native boarding school in Riverside, California—and therefore robbed of cultural, linguistic, and tribal identity—E’s research interests focus on the continued survivance and futurity of Indigenous peoples, particularly through the use of literature. E studies community-based, abolitionist-informed responses to gendered, racialized, and colonial violence in Black and Indigenous speculative fiction. This research has been published in International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, Science Fiction Research Association Review, Coils of the Serpent, and the anthology Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies. E also cofounded a local Black & Pink Minneapolis chapter as well as the low income non-profit Mutual Aid Twin Cities Housing Cooperative. In their downtime, E can be found baking, making music, and walking their dog.
