J. Paul Padilla is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English Program at the University of Arizona. Paul’s scholarship centers on questions of rhetorics of racism in the Americas, contemporary Latinx identity, and decolonial studies. Paul’s writing on rhetoric and composition studies has appeared in Composition Studies and in enculturation. Paul’s creative writing on themes of Latinx identity in the United States has appeared in National Public Radio, Reed Magazine (San Jose State University), Lunch Ticket (Antioch University), and The Marquette Journal (Marquette University).