ABOUT THE GENDER ACTION PROJECT:
Amplifying the voices of Latinx Womxn
(We use the terms Latinx and Womxn as a way to acknowledge folks who's identity fall beyond the gender binary)
Amci and Damalish -- the creators of this project -- are both first-generation, Mexican-American, transfer students interning at the Women's Center in the University of California San Diego. One of the most exciting parts about being an intern at the UC San Diego Women's Center is the opportunity to develop a Gender Action Project (GAP). This project allows interns the space to self reflect and express themselves while also learning how to develop an idea/concept into a realized form.
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"Through the collection of factual information about immigration policies, podcast conversations, resources, and most importantly, stories that comes from Undocumented Latinx Womxn, we hope to highlight how today's nativist immigration structure affect and criminalize one of the largest population of Latin American migration. We also hope to depict awareness and give a platform to those who continue to live in fear because of the criminalization and dehumanization being undocumented in the United States creates. May this website serve as a starting point for anyone who want to be part of change." - Damalish and Amci
Artist of the painting above: Karla Daniela Rosas
https://flowersontheinside.org/
Karla Daniela Rosas is a self-taught visual artist and “undocumented immigrant” originally from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Karla grew up in the Gulf South and currently lives in New Orleans. Karla considers herself a story-teller first and foremost. Tired of media tropes of helpless and passive immigrant mothers, Karla uses her art to tell stories about migrant women that she wants to hear — stories about being powerful, young, defiant, sexual, angry, joyous…and sometimes petty. Karla works with a mixture of digital illustration tools as well as traditional inks, markers, acrylic, and gouache. Her work incorporates a wide range of influences including Afro/Aztec futurism, sci-fi, pop-punk aesthetics, Aztec cosmology and art, Mexican Catholicism, and pop culture. To see more of Karla’s work, visit her website at maricosas.com.