Latin American Speakers Series: Tanya Aguiniga
Thursday, January 30th, via Zoom
7PM ET Register here
"Tanya Aguiñiga: On Borders"
The border is a people, a place, an idea, a thing. As a transnational U.S. citizen, Tanya Aguiñiga probes the complicity of all the communities she represents in maintaining this systemic oppression and how the border is used to dehumanize in all its ways. The artist will discuss how all forms of the border are constantly in flux depending on national/state/local politics. Aguiñiga’s lecture will emphasize how their work centers the narratives of the most vulnerable folx in the borderlands, to be seen and heard through art and mutual aid initiatives. As such, the artist liaises and organizes border communities to collaboratively come up with ways to ensure all are safe, supported, empowered and included as a way to encourage accountability, build binational migrant support systems through craft, and advocate for pro-migrant narrative change in the U.S. and Mexico.
