Daisy Donají Matias is a Oaxacan-American writer, scholar, and occasional storyteller, from Richmond, Virginia. Daisy’s work explores the imagination as a site of transformative and worldmaking potential within indigenous Mexican healing traditions and new age spiritual practices. She is particularly interested in the capacity of ritual healing methods to resolve first-hand and intergenerational trauma inflicted through migration and displacement. Her work is ultimately an exploration of the messy nature of embodiment for the minoritarian subject. Daisy grounds her scholarly practice in the methodologies of performative writing, oral history, autoethnography, and performance ethnography. Daisy holds dual Bachelor’s Degrees in Art History and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University.