My Name Is Julio: A Short Film By His Best Friend Jesús Iñiguez
Timeline
2020
Chaotic Orange
Make, 2020
Flourish, 2020
FaKe Feel Fall, 2020
Too Real, 2020
And When People Woke Up, 2020
2019
Quiero Perrear, 2019
Quiero Perrear, 2019
Quiero Perrear, 2019
2018
Tío Chicho, 2018.
Rebel Girl, 2018
Killing In The Name Of, 2018.
2017
No Matter the Outcome, 2017.
No Longer Interested, 2017.
Uno Se Queda Aquí, Otro Se Queda Allá, 2017.
You Better Work, 2017.
2016
Americanah And Tea, 2016.
A Shot Before The Storm, 2016.
Sweet Purple Hot, 2016.
Don’t Stop Dancing, 2016.
2015
Bigger Than Any Border
Buffy, 2015.
My So Called Life, 2015.
Friends, 2015.
2014
Dirty Fag, 2014.
The Pressure, 2014.
What Future?, 2014.
Illegal Faggots
Quiero Mis Queerce, 2014.
2013
Homoland Security, 2013.
Free the Dream 9, 2013.
Imagine the American Outrage, 2013.
Who Are You Calling Low Skilled, 2013.
No LGBTQ Exclusion, 2013.
Queer Butterfly, 2013.
2012
Ya Basta!, 2012.
No Papers, No Fear, 2012.
Arrest ICE, 2012.
Undocumented Apparel: Jesus, 2012.
Undocumented Apparel: Alaa, 2012.
Undocumented Apparel: Esperanza, 2012.
Brown Babies, 2012.
I Would Rather Be Undocumented
I Am Undocuqueer: Reyna, 2012.
I Am Undocuqueer: Tania, 2012.
I Am Undocuqueer: Prerna, 2012.
I Am Undocuqueer: Ireri, 2012.
I Am Undocuqueer: Jorge, 2012.
I Am Undocuqueer: Yahaira
2011
Go Away, 2011.
Undocumented and Unafraid, 2011.
Repeal HB56, 2011.
Undocumented and Unafraid in Georgia, 2011.
Jose Eduardo Chavez, 2011.
My Parents are Courageous and Responsible, 2011.
No Sir, I Will Not Show My Papers, 2011.
Undocumented, Unafraid and Unapologetic, 2011.
2010
Queer, Undocumented and Unafraid: Yahaira, 2010.
Queer, Undocumented and Unafraid: Jorge, 2010.
I actually reconnected with Jorge Gutierrez during the hunger strikes outside of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in Los Angeles, CA. We’d actually met a couple of years prior when I was dating his then roommate. But that’s another story for another time. This was one of the first times that I began to truly express my queer identity in these images. What you have to understand about the migrant rights movement is that it was very religious. I remember an instance where I was part of a bus ride from California to DC with members of a catholic organization and there would be some homophobic comments thrown here or there. I remember Jorge was one of the first people to tell me to be more intentional in creating art that spoke to that part of myself.
Hunger Strike In The Name Of a Dream, 2010.
As part of the continuing push to pass the DREAM Act through civil disobediences, a bunch of undocumented activists and their allies staged a hunger strike outside of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in Los Angeles, CA. I decided to pay a visit to the folks doing the hunger strike and thank them by making some quick portraits of them. When I got back home, I created this image as a homage to all of the activists. Most of my initial images were black and white, but this is where I started using a little more color on these images dedicated to undocumented youth.
Because We Exist!, 2010
M.I.A.’s “Born Free” was such an influential song for me in 2010, a pivotal year in the migrant right’s movement. More specifically, it was the year that undocumented youth got tired of having others speak on their behalf. In May 2010, undocumented activists Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo, Mohammad Abdollahi, and Tania Unzueta, along with Raúl Alcaraz, sat at Sen. John McCain’s office in Tucson, AZ to put a face to the DREAM Act. This image was one of the first of many images that just came out of me, fueled in great part by the organizing of these undocumented activists and the loud guitars that M.I.A. sampled from Suicide’s “Ghost Rider.”