Luz Magdaleno Flores, also known as DJ Light of Your Vida, is a Chicana art curator, poet, textile artist, and fotógrafa based in Pilsen by way of Oxnard, California. She aims to evoke feelings of nostalgia and melancholy in everything she creates.
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I was born and raised 60 miles north of Los Angeles, in a strawberry field city known as Oxnard. I have been living and organizing in Chicago for the past nine years. I earned my BA in Journalism with two minors in Gender Studies and Latin American History at Roosevelt University. As a writer and photographer, I have self-published La Pera Chapbook, Bajito & Suavecito Foto Zine, and Cultura Mexicana en Pilsen y La Villita Chicago (winner of the first place photo book 2016 at Roosevelt University). I am proud to be the co-founder of SERIO? Zine, a social justice zine series est. 2015. I am a freelance writer featured on Reverb LP, Chicago's South Side Weekly, Canada's Broken Pencil Magazine, Xicanation.com, and my photography has been displayed at 2240 Gallery, The Shudio, Fulton Street Art Collective, San Francisco's Galeria de la Raza, and NYC 7th Annual Zine and Self Published Photo Book Fair. As a layout designer, I have created Love Notes from the Kitchen for Necia Media Collective, From My Lips Chapbook by Lupita Carrasquillo, Sana Sana by Marisol Ceron, and have contributed and designed On Struggling Queerness Anthology, Secretos: From One Hoe to Another, On Struggling Relationships Anthology, Home Anthology, and Cuentos de Gringolandia: Stories From the Other Side in collaboration with Brown and Proud Press and Xicx Zine Collective in Chicago. Current projects include DJ'ing Oldies on Viny (I hold a residency at One City Tap 3rd Sundays of the Month), Curating for 2240 Gallery, Producing Hasta La Muerte, a short film currently in post-production, and Co-hosting Radio Luzifer, a spanglish horror podcast that can be streamed on all platforms, and serving as the Arts & Communications Coordinator at ConTextos, an arts and storytelling empowerment hub in Chicago and El Salvador.