Modesta Avila

#MAOD1889 is defined as the Modesta Avila: Obstructing Development Since 1889 digital storytelling project. Graphic biography coming soon!

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Wait for it, you’ll get to hear me speak at the end, te lo juro…

#maod1889 #theintroduction #dh

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Mira, it’s my life in a Blair witch project…

#maod1889 #ar #digitalart

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Si soy de San Juan Capistrano, pero hay más que decir de mi vida…

#maod1889 #modestaavila #theintroduction

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¡Mira I’m starting to make it out into your world! This is at the Fullerton Museum Center. Ándale, swing by, I’m there till August 6th.

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A bilingual reflection piece will be written by Jose Artiga with Share El Salvador as part of the Un/Equal Freedoms: Expressions for Social Justice by CRISJ at Sacramento State. An unfortunate universal story...

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The beautiful part about collaboration is listening to what the other folks have to offer. The #MAOD virtual timeline is being analyzed, reviewed & re-presented to connect with the governments in El Salvador y Honduras taking land from gente...

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& gente being treated unfairly for fighting against them, which connects to the same reasons Modesta was convicted as a felon in OC.

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Carla & Sarah are experimenting with new forms of digital storytelling! Here’s one outtake - score provided by ⁦@gloriaestradamu⁩! #MAOD #usLdh #digitalhumanities

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AR collaborator: Reema grew up in CA; Damascus, Syria; North Dakota; now based in Houston. Practicing designer for over 13yrs — Transmedia Storytelling: the use of digital & analog media to tell narrative stories across platforms. Visit: https://t.co/19g1MzP5Je #MAOD #usLdh #DH

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Unos dicen que soy la "Dama Blanca” en San Juan Capistrano — un fantasma que ronda la área, caminando por las vías del tren desde la década de 1930... ¡jajaja! (Graphic animation by Carla Zarate) #MAOD1889 #modestaavila #usLdh #MAOD #digitalhumanities #DH ⁦@APPRecovery⁩

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Great info!!

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Join @artepublico Executive Editor/co-founder of #USLDH/@UHouston professor, @gbaezaventura for the virtual discussion, "Living Language and Identity," hosted by @HudsonRivMuseum on Feb. 27. RSVP: https://t.co/F0xyelREgE
#Latina #Latino #Latinx

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Some believe I ended up being released from San Quentin & living a long life up north... #MAOD1889 #modestaavilapresente #usLdh #dh

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Check out more of Cecilia’s work here! ✊🏽 #MAOD #usLdh #latinxarchives

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Cecilia Lopez, undergraduate research coordinator for @SarahRafaGarcia's @MellonFdn
-#USLDH grant-in-aid project, #MAOD, reflects on the history of Mexican American folk heroine, Modesta Avila. https://t.co/8edpmjBcAK #digitalhumanities #HumanidadesDigitales

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Artist Patricia in her studio! Co-creator of my new public image. Back in the 1880s, I never thought I’d have a whole team of “stylists” in 2021. #usLdh #maod1889 #latinasinhistory #digitalhumanities

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New blog post: "Collecting and Re-presenting US History: Digital Storytelling as Archives" by @MellonFdn-USLDH grantee, @SarahRafaGarcia re: #MAOD @ModestaAvilaOD https://t.co/c5PBVV5kph #usLdh #digitalhumanities #archives

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“With the collaborative research produced alongside undergraduate student and photographer Cecilia Lopez, we will transpose Modesta Avila’s image from criminal to digital storyteller.” — Sarah Rafael García, #MAOD Primary Investigator

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“the photographs are more of documentary sources and then the graphics demonstrate things from an alternative perspective” — Cecilia Lopez, #MAOD Research Coordinator