the person behind it…
About
The Library
The Library of Alexandria burned. Nobody agrees on how. Everyone quietly agrees on who mostly got to write what was in it.
The one name most people know is Hypatia: mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, the last head of the Alexandrian school, murdered by a mob in 415 CE for being too visible, too influential, too much a woman doing this in public. She gets treated like the exception. She wasn’t. She’s just the one history couldn’t fully erase.
For every Hypatia, there’s an archive of women’s thinking that was never copied twice, never cited, never called “philosophy” at all, just letters, diaries, gossip, witchcraft, hysteria. The fire didn’t start that erasure. It just finished a job that was already underway, and it never really stopped.
That’s the actual reason Chicana Hippie exists. Not a vibe. A grudge, held gently. Every essay, painting, and object here is one small act of rebuilding a library from a perspective it was never written for, and refusing to wait for permission to call it philosophy.
Nicolasa Soul
Chicana Hippie is not a wellness brand and it’s not an academic project. It’s a research desk, a studio, and an open argument, built by an artist who got tired of philosophy staying locked in rooms most people were never invited into.
Nicolasa Soul makes paintings, collage, and literary objects, and writes essays that treat old questions (about suffering, selfhood, timing, inheritance, and power) like they’re still worth arguing about, because they are. She works across philosophy, astrology, consciousness studies, and ancestral knowledge, translating dense ideas into something you can actually use on a Tuesday.
The Chicana perspective isn’t a theme applied on top. It’s the lens the whole project is built through: living between languages, between belief systems, between what was inherited and what still needs to be built. Nepantla, not aesthetic.
Chicana doesn’t mean Aztec headdresses and Frida quotes. The Americas are home to hundreds of distinct Native nations, each with its own language, land, and story, and most of us descend from a specific one of them, not a general idea of “Aztec” used as shorthand for all of it. Owning an Indigenous identity means doing the work to actually know which nation, which land, which story, not defaulting to the two names everyone already knows.
And Chicana was never only about ancestry. It’s a political word before it’s a genealogical one, born from a generation that stopped asking permission to exist in this country and organized for the right to. Audre Lorde said it plainly: there is no such thing as a single-issue struggle, because none of us live single-issue lives. Solidarity isn’t a mood, it’s the mechanism, the thing that turns a scattered people into a movement. Community isn’t a value I hold. It’s the strategy.
Why This Exists
Because philosophy got cornered into universities. Because astrology got flattened into a personality quiz. Because ancestral knowledge got either erased or turned into a trend. Chicana Hippie exists to put these things back in conversation with each other, and with your actual life, and to turn what comes out of that conversation into art.
How the Work Gets Made
Nothing here is a vibe. Every piece starts as reading, and ends as a video where I make the case out loud.
You walked in through a library, so it’s fair to ask whether that’s just set dressing. It isn’t. The Alexandria thread running through this whole place is a real research question — who got copied, cited and kept, and who got reclassified as something other than a philosopher — and I go to the primary sources and the scholarship on them before I write a word of it.
Then it goes on camera. That’s the part that matters and the part most archives skip: an essay can assert anything, but a video has to show its work, name its sources, and hold your attention while it does. Read the piece here, then watch me argue it. If the two don’t agree, the video wins, because that’s the one where I had to defend it.
The Content Series
Five ongoing threads, always in progress.
The Conscious Report
The news underneath the news: current events read through consciousness, power, and history.
Rabbit Holes
Start with one idea, book, quote, or question and follow the research spiral wherever it goes.
Rebel Thought
Digestible philosophy for modern life: no robes, no gatekeeping.
Ancestral Futures
Ecology, Indigenous knowledge, architecture, and the future societies we could still build.
Studio Notes
Art process and the philosophy underneath the work.
Knowledge is free now. Interpretation isn’t.
That’s the whole manifesto, if you need it in one line.