Abstract: Adding to a growing body of scholarship on Chicanafuturism and borderlands science fiction, this essay interrogates the politics of labor in Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita’s novella Lunar Braceros 2125-2148. It examines the breakdown of the heteronormative nuclear family and its transformation into another version of the nuclear family, one that results from radioactive contamination and exposure. I argue the protagonist Lydia becomes a chola cyborg whose cyber-consciousness is created by nuclear alienation. I demonstrate how the environmental effects of the neoliberal economy, as portrayed in Lunar Braceros, are reflective of the sociopolitical conditions of Indigenous communities in the US.