Marianne Díaz Hernández is a lawyer, writer, and researcher who lives at the intersection of digital infrastructure, human rights, and resistance as an aesthetic.
Marianne writes about power, personhood, surveillance, and the narratives we build to survive systems that were never designed to hold us. She is the author of four short story collections in Spanish and is currently writing fiction and nonfiction in Spanish and English (for reasons both strategic and existential).
Her work has appeared in reports, journals, anthologies, and the mouths of people who never expected to be quoting a girl from Venezuela who now paints in Chile and writes about zombies, digital identity systems, and the nature of consciousness.
She’s spent the past decade working in the fields of digital rights, civic infrastructure, and internet freedom —speaking, teaching, and writing across borders. Her theories of the body as data and Digital Public Infrastructure as civic terrain has been read (and sometimes stolen) by institutions around the world.
Marianne is also neurospicy, perpetually underhydrated, and deeply committed to the act of building softness into brutal systems. Her jaw hurts. Her double chocolate cookies are legendary. Her blog is unpredictable.
This site contains essays, fiction, poetry, research, and the occasional personal reflection. Sometimes it’s about identity systems. Sometimes it’s about Gilmore Girls. Sometimes it’s just about the cookies.
