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English: Jillian Hernandez at BLIXEL + Black Lunch Table's Gainesville Photo Booth, 2022. Photo by Kenya (Robinson). Jillian Hernandez is a scholar, curator, community arts educator, and creative. She is the author of Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment (2020) and the founder of Women on the Rise!, a collective-run project that engaged thousands of youth in Miami-Dade County Florida in feminist, anti-racist, and queer art practice. Her curatorial work is driven by a desire to generate cultural movement by presenting visual art that engages the politics of difference in humorous, erotic, and visually decadent ways. Exhibitions she has curated and co-curated have been on view throughout the U.S. She co-directed the film La Purisima (1999), a documentary about gender and Latina motherhood, and has written poetry and created visual art throughout her life. Hernandez’s research and writing explores Black and Latina girlhoods, contemporary art, racialized sexuality, Hip Hop, and cultural politics.