activism that use multiple realities, including augmented reality, mixed reality, and alternate reality approaches. In 2013, cárdenas's poetry and a statement on poetics was published in the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics by Nightboat Books. The editors describe the book as the first anthology of transgender and genderqueer poetry. In 2014, Cárdenas published an essay titled "Movements of Safety" in the book Plants, Androids and Operators: A Post-Media Handbook by Mute Publishing. The book includes essays from numerous theorists and artists working in the Post-Media Lab at Leuphana University. In 2015, her article "Shifting Futures: Digital Trans of Color Praxis" was included in Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. "Redshift and Portalmetal," "Pregnancy: Reproductive Futures in Trans of Color Feminism," "QueerOS: A User’s Manual," and "Trans of Color Poetics: Stitching Bodies, Concepts, and Algorithms" were published in 2016. In December, 2017, MIT Press published Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, which contains Cárdenas's chapter "Dark Shimmers: The Rhythm of Necropolitical Affect in Digital Media. In this work, she "engages . . . a few moments of time in the months of June and July 2016, during which extreme violence against trans, black, and Latinx people occurred repeatedly, rhythmically." Cárdenas has published several works related to the theoretical issues raised in her performances including "Becoming Dragon, A Transversal Technology Study" in the 2013 book Critical Digital Studies from University of Toronto Press, and "I Am Transreal" in the 2010 book Gender Outlaws the Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman. Additional published works include the 2010 essay "Technesexual Interface: Erotic Mixed Reality Performance," co-authored with Elle Mehrmand. "Monstrous Children of Pregnant Androids: Latinx Futures after Orlando" was published in January, 2018. Cárdenas' monograph Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media was published by Duke University Press in 2022. Awards In 2020, Cárdenas's augmented reality artwork Sin Sol won the Impact Award at the Indiecade Festival of Independent Games. In 2022, Cárdenas's book Poetic Operations was the co-winner of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association. Teaching and research Previously, Cárdenas was Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Design and Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. cárdenas was also a Lecturer in the Visual Arts Department and Critical Gender Studies Program at UCSD in 2009 and 2010.