(in)migrations
“I’m a turtle, wherever I go I carry “home” on my back.” - Gloria Anzaldúa
(in)migrations
these 3 zines take on interconnected subjects around migration. from the subjective feeling of out-placeness, to constructing the migrant identity around status, and finally the recomposition of the communication with family who is back home. this is an experiment to make sense of the migration within my own biography. these zines have helped me with understanding the difference attached to my body, the turbulences of displaced time and space, and mostly the privilege of my movement.
1 being out of place is its own place migration brings a dislocation of time and space that results in the failure of not inhabiting in the same way that which seems familiar. dislocation makes impossible to fully recapture the memory that is in the everyday.
AN ACTION FOR THE DISLOCATION OF THE EVERYDAY
- take the 3 pages out of the zine - grab a hole puncher and individually punch a hole in each page. - overlay the pages in the order that best pleases you. - keep the little pieces and place them in the empty holes.
WHAT IT U S ER ED NG
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renacer animal mágico que has nacido de noche en lo salvaje nada hacia la tormenta y camina al comienzo de tu historia. ↓
↓ magic animal born in the wild at night swim through the storm and walk to the start of your story. rebirth
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exercise when in need to feel at home: find a word that lets you roll your r’s and dance to its rhythm for 3 minutes. say the word out loud 2 times. whisper it to the plants once.
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