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   health. The youth met each other virtually via these videos, taught each other about the different dynamics in their cities and then collectively created a zine that was distributed in each state.The youth used the zines to bring voice from other youth communities dealing with different aspects of the same issue.
Are you involved in Malintzine at all? Can you tell us about that?
MalintZine is an online zine by radical/women/queer/people of color.Their work is almost always anonymous as a means to create a more open space for mujeres to talk about the
My good friend and queer perspectives fromTucson
http://antifronteras.com
TruthSarita, LLC
http://www.truthsarita.com
TucsonYouth Poetry Slam/ Spoken Futures, Inc. http://www.tucsonyouthpoetryslam.org
Pan Left Productions,Tucson Coverage
http://www.panleft.net
violence being perpetrated upon the community.The zine has served many roles in the community but for me, it has been an outlet for my work as a queer xicana to have representation.
Links?
  The Florence Project: Immigrant and Refugee Rights
http://www.rrp.org
MalintZine
http://malintzine.com
What other community organising do you do? Tell us about your workshops.
To facilitate the arduous processing of such violent and intense environments, I work to incorporate art as a means to dialogue, heal, understand and ght back. My work follows a simple out- line of education, connection and action. Education is getting information we need to come to a collective understanding of the issues, Connection is guring out how this issue impacts us and those in our communities. It is often the storytelling piece of the work.Then Action, working to create ways to speak out, push back and create our own vision of our future. I use dance/
Rainbow Defense Fund: Supporting LGBT folks in Immigration Detention Centers http://rainbowdefensefund.wordpress.com
movement, photography, writing, storytelling and spoken word poetry as means to achieve these goals. One of the projects I designed used video shorts created by youth in four different states who work on issues impacting youth, rights, sexuality and















































































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