Behind The Illegal Image: I Am UndocuQueer!
When I first started documenting the DREAM Act movement through badly scanned drawings of undocumented organizers in 2010, I started noticing a very queer pattern. A lot of the organizers I was hanging out with during the actions that happened throughout 2010, were...
Behind The Illegal Image: Because WE Exist!
Why do I make art? What kind of art? For who? What purpose does this art serve? Arent’ those the kind of questions every respectful artist making art about any marginalized community should be asking themselves? Girl, I don’t know. But I’ve been...
Jotas, I Drew Juanga For The L.A. Times!
Juan Gabriel when asked if he was gay: “Lo que se ve no se pregunta”(Julio Salgado / For The Times) Three illustrations of Juan Gabriel by yours truly appeared in yesterday’s PRINT issue of Los Angeles Times. The images accompany this beautiful and personal...
The Conversation We Never Had
I never really came out to tio Chicho. I always felt like it was an open family secret that I was pretty gay. Lo que se ve no se pregunta. The plan always was, in my mind at least, that as soon as I got my papers, I’d simply go back to Ensenada and have a...
Just A Boy In A Tragic Queerdom
If my blurry memory doesn’t fail me, I believe the first time I heard No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” I was with my cousins at a family party, huddled around a radio. It was the late 90s and I’d only been in the U.S. for a couple of years, so my gay teenage brain was...
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