Before fire season there is the labor of Latino immigrant workers deep down in the canyons and on the hills of Orange County clearing dead and dry brush to protect countless homes. My father, Juan, in a sombrero (center) with his crew. #visibilitymatters
Guess who will be doing all that brush clearing to keep our communities safe in the future? Often those whose families are most vulnerable to draconian immigration regimes…
New article alert in @JournalLatin from @jamoralesf and I—a collaboration around "explosiveness" in La Macarena. We explore how forensic workers and mine-removal experts engage with the material traces of explosives and produce territories of war. https://t.co/ybxxYkCCAe
Check out my article in @AmEthno. I consider how Colombian farmers slow down #humanitariandemining and demand attention to the Xple forms of violence and dispossession stalking rural life despite peace gestures and accords. #anthrotwitter#colombianstudies https://t.co/HYtuohNUvS
Thanks @cenmag. It was speaking freely and honestly in that interview, fully in my queerness and blackness. You don't have to live all the hopes of the generation before you, but it is a blessing when you can step into the power they built with you.