Jonathan D. Gomez is a poet and an assistant professor in Chicana/o Studies at San José State University, and a 2021-2022 Ford Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Gomez’s poetry, scholarship, and teaching evidence the ways in which people who have been dispossessed and displaced envision and enact cultural practices to take possession of concrete spaces across the city as strategies for refusing the unlivable destinies to which they have been relegated.