you think folks would have learned after press in minneapolis were intentionally targeted and several were permanently injured or blinded that cops do not give a fuck about press

Excellent, well-reported piece about members of a small upstate town that showed more courage and clarity under pressure than law firms and universities

TWO REMINDERS: 1. Mother's Day is Sunday. Do something nice for your mom (or for yourself if your mom isn't worth celebrating). 2. It's time for @nationalbailout.bsky.social's annual #FreeBlackMamas fundraiser to get Black women too poor to defend themselves out of jail and home with the kids.

New in The Border Chronicle 🦂🦅 in collaboration w/ @highcountrynews.org by @cetracey.bsky.social The grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity.

For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about photographer David Taylor’s exhibition COMPLEX and what it can teach us about keeping watch on border surveillance: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/americas-g...

The best news this week: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

this country is about to find out all the ways in which immigrant labor from the farms to high end restaurants (and everything in between) keep USians fed.

YOLANDA M. LÓPEZ (1981)

I WAS JUST LOOKING UP H-1B VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR A COLLEAGUE HB1, AND HERE I FIND THE EXCEPTION FOR MELANIA MY EYES ARE BLEEDING

Worth resharing this today, WIRED’s guide to protecting yourself from government surveillance

Here I weigh two cow skulls (one found in Sonora, one in Arizona) using Border Monument no.133 as a fulcrum. Can you tell which is which?

I’m holding this scene from Hero frontal in my mind. It’s the scene in the calligraphy school when the class is targeted with a barrage of arrows. The teacher keeps teaching, the learners keep learning. This is my promise to my profession no matter what happens from here on.

I contain multitudes of conflicting truths.

THROUGH A SERIES OF EMBODIED GESTURES EXPLORING CONFLICT, DESIRE, AND THE DELIMITATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP WHILE TRYING TO POSSESS A GLASS OF WATER, LEYVA AND ANTEBI WILL QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM NORMAN MCLAREN'S CONTROVERSIAL ANIMATED FILM TITLED "NEIGHBOURS" (1952) AN ALLEGORY FOR THE KOREAN WAR. 1/3

History is a relentless ghost haunting us with the injustices our ancestors endured and wrought

Oops it's the Rio Grande/Río Bravo, but this map comes up in the essay: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (cc @vickyveritas.bsky.social and @antwithacapitala.bsky.social)

Look for @antwithacapitala.bsky.social's animated version of this map! It's amazing

Adding “How not to be a robot “ to the title of my classes.

@leximcmenamin.bsky.social puts today's New York Stock Exchange anti war protest in context and explains the historic reference to an ACT-UP protest in 1987 for @teenvogue.bsky.social

My animated essay for The Texas Observer:

We need new frames On everything

I have used the a.i. Forgive me there were data sets so cumbersome and so unintelligible

My illustration students want you to protect their future by voting.

I wrote and animated this essay for The Texas Observer, a news outlet that resists reportage with a shallow expiration date. Grateful for the platform to explore these ideas and for the friends featured in this piece. www.texasobserver.org/reclaiming-f...

next summer (yes, so far away) I am going to be teaching a weeklong class on #ObservationalPractice for writers and artists (I think this would honestly be very useful for *nonpractitioner* academics, i.e., people who do exclusively or primarily scholarly work) in Maine. details here in Nov/Dec:

Every generation needs to, among other things, be unshackled from the rigidity of mimetic representation. DEATHTOTHEDEMONA.I.!

(I should say, this album is pay-what-you-like. So you can have your very own solstice concert if you want.)

All these xenophobic dudes in power married to immigrants.

Animation for me is both the mirror and the looking glass

¡VIVA!

The age of micro-ethics

“When I explain Juan Gabriel to American friends, I tell them to imagine an artist as revolutionary, innovative & singular as Prince and as peacockish, prolific and canonized as Elton John. Someone once told me no one has made Latin Americans cry, laugh & dance more.” www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/o...

In "Learning to Lead," Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented college students. Read the introduction for free on our website now. ow.ly/4Q9c50SSTXM

Here it is, at the New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/1846...

David Dorado Romo, who I adore, wrote (maybe the first) Borderlands history textbook for grade school students and I'm thrilled for young people to know and see themselves in this history: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709716...

I'm convinced that a finger wag emoji could help reinforce the social contract.

This, from The Atlantic and on @lisafdavis.bsky.social: The Voynich is “not imaginary,” Davis said. “It’s an actual object, it exists in space and time, it has a history, it has physical characteristics, and because of that, it has a true story. We just don’t know what that true story is yet.”"

We are wrapping production on this short doc directed by Celina Galicia. A courageous portrait of Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre and Esmeralda Castillo Rincón whose family and friends sparked a movement in Juárez demanding justice in their names. I contributed the animated sequences.

Featured story: This moving photo essay shares the faces, and stories of the women struggling for reproductive rights after Roe v. Wade.

“There can be no friendship where there is cruelty, where there is disloyalty, where there is injustice.” -Étienne de La Boétie (1552)

Shapeshifting republican elite helicopters into the borderlands, buys a plaid shirt and is ✨poof✨ an expert on this region.

Accelerated wind is free animation