Abstract
Xicanx people are indigenous to Aztlán, an internal colony with irredentist claims to the southwest territories of The United States of America. Under the Trump Administration, state sponsored terror in the form of digital psyops, surveillance, disappearances, and immigration raids threaten a protracted insurgency that desperately needs a way to protect its collective identity. The Guy Fawkes Mask is used to both protect the identities of the hacker collective Anonymous, as well as unify them under a single symbol. There needs to be a Xicanx version, more brown, less blush. This mask can unite Xicanx people in protest, rasquache constructed, with images indiscernible in basic form from the racist mannequins that dance across the red, white, blue, silver, and digital screens. Built as resistance, this research develops El Pachuco’s cyber camouflage: a Güey Fawkes Mask. The Mask of the Ciberbandido. This symbol informs a decolonial pedagogical model while also being a practical tool for protest.
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Borders, Race, Ethnicity, Resistance, Xicanx, U.S. Mexico Border, Decolonial, Protest
