projects

Everybody eats

Everybody Eats explores the use of food as a language of confrontation. Food spaces are sites for physical, emotional, and spiritual reckoning, as well as sites of exploitation, expropriation, and appropriation (Tunde Wey). As consummations of reproductive labor, they can also prefigure the type liberatory society we seek by challenging the logic of neoliberal individualization, the white social imaginary, and what constitutes “valuable” work.

radical listening

Radical Listening begins in a hospital room interpreting between English and Spanish for my mother when I was 9 years old and continues as a series of sonic invitations to re-imagine our relationship to language and explore listening as ritual and as healing practice.

space is the place

Space is the Place traces my journey as a cultural organizer, popular educator, and language worker. In particular, it builds upon my recent investigation and confrontation of place-making, through a labor and social practice lens, in the communities of Koreatown and Boyle Heights in Los Angeles and connects to my current work in Houston at the intersections of language and spatial justice as a co-founder and member of Tecolotl.