How A Femme Liberation Collective Is Practicing Community Care
Formed by three Latinx femmes, Femme Defensa is addressing a lack of government aid in the Chicago neighborhoods of Pilsen and Little Village through direct community care.
Original article published on Borderless Magazine in English and Spanish
How A Network Of Coordinated Grocery Runs Is Feeding Chicago
For nearly a year during the global pandemic, Grocery Run Club has supplied community members across Chicago with fresh produce and other necessities. Its organizers have no plans to stop.
Original article published on Borderless Magazine in English and Spanish.
CatchLight Local is a visual initiative that seeks to reseed visual storytelling at the local level by connecting powerful visual journalists directly with local newsrooms and community members. The initiative's long term goal is to transform the local news and media landscape with new community-based visual practices.
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This series was produced as part of Borderless Magazine’s series ‘Mi Barrio Me Respalda’ (My community has my back) for Latinx Chicagoans. My photo series covered Latinx residents throughout Chicago, who, through their own resources, found ways to meed the needs of residents in Black and Brown neighborhoods that were worsened by the pandemic.
Other shorter photo projects:
In Little Village, An Immigrant-Led Artists’ Commune Resists As Developer Seeks Eviction
In the midst of a housing crisis that has left immigrant renters among the most vulnerable, a group of immigrant punk rock musicians are fighting to stay at a commercial building they’ve called home for years.
Photos published in an English and Spanish version of this story on Borderless Magazine.
