Category: community
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Tacos La Pasadita
I spent part of this past week in Green River, Utah as a guest of Epicenter whose mission statement reads “Epicenter stewards creative initiatives that honor the past, strengthen the present, and build the future that we envision alongside our community”. My engagement with Epicenter involved spending time with an extended Mexican family that moved…
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Pandemic Chronicles
I spent the early part of the pandemic (April to August), collaborating with poets Esther Belin, Jess X. Snow, Ursula Rucker, Mahogany L. Brown and Olmeca and visual artists Titus Brooks Heagins and André Leon Gray to create an online zine we call “Pandemic Chronicles, Volume 1.” We received contributions from Thea Gahr, Jayden Fields…
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light in the darkness
“Lá vem a força, lá vem a magia Que me incendeia o corpo de alegria Lá vem a santa maldita euforia Que me alucina, me joga e me rodopia Lá vem o canto, o berro de fera Lá vem a voz de qualquer primavera Lá vem a unha rasgando a garganta A fome, a fúria,…
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sex + sexuality in la habana
Though born a boy Nomi knew as a child she was a girl. Many of her childhood days were spent trying on her mom’s clothes until her dad caught her one day in the mid 80s. Distraught, he sent Nomi to boxing school hoping this would make her more masculine not fully realizing how this…
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stories from ground zero
July 16, 1945 was an ominous day in the history of humankind and the planet as the US Army’s Manhattan Project detonated Trinity, the first atomic bomb, in Jornada del Muerto, NM. (“Jornada del Muerto” fittingly translates as “Journey of the Dead Man” or “Working Day of the Dead.”) July 16 is also the day of one…
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La Isla Memory Project
Shortly after the Great Depression newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented by Executive Order a public works program to get US citizens back to work called the New Deal. A program that emerged was called the Works Progress Administration or WPA and one of the communities to benefit from the WPA projects was…
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Messages from the Underworld (Blue Sky Gallery Show in Portland)
One of the best memes I saw over the past couple years read “Fuck a wall. America needs to build a big ass mirror to take a look at itself.” I used the opportunity to show work at Blue Sky to look at similarities we share in the Americas rather than what separates us. …
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merry christmas from the rez
I’d wanted to get this up sooner but I had a heck of a time getting the images + video to upload from the rez. I had to wait until I went to town (Flagstaff) to use a faster service. Anyway, in the spirit of festiveness… Christmas lights in the sheep…
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water is life
Last month I received a letter from Maria Singleton, a woman I met in November in Nogales at a demonstration organized by School of Americas Watch. She identified herself as a member of a humanitarian aid organization based in Ajo, AZ near the U.S., Mexico border. She wrote “…This last…
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School of the Americas Watch Border Encuentro (November 10 – 12)
This past weekend was spent at the SOAW Border Encuentro in Tucson, AZ and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The U.S. Army School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, is located at Fort Benning, Georgia. As stated on Wikipedia “The School of the Americas was founded in 1946 and from…