Shifting towards decoloniality: Transfronteriza nepantlera rasquache tactics in new media art and expanded animation.

This article examines the concept of decoloniality as a continuous, transgenerational process through the lens of a Brown, Chicana, transfronteriza (transborder) artist and academic with Indigenous Baja Californian ancestry. It highlights the challenges faced in academia, including institutional hostility and reprisals against advocates for People of Colour faculty and students, emphasizing the personal and collective costs of resisting coloniality. The author employs a transfronteriza nepantlera rasquache sensibility—rooted in borderland identity, liminal in-betweenness, and resourceful Chicano cultural tactics—to create experimental new media art and expanded animation, such as immersive virtual reality works, that challenge colonial narratives and aesthetic hierarchies. Through these artistic practices, the article underscores the potential of expanded animation and artisanal digital methods to foster decolonial consciousness and social justice by disrupting dominant epistemologies and inviting multidimensional engagement with Indigenous and borderland experiences.