Adriana Camarena is proud to collaborate with Accion Latina to create and distribute “Unsettled/Inquietos,” a series of literary non-fiction essays…
An essay by Adriana Camarena about affordable housing, police brutality, homelessness, art and activism. The author was commissioned by the…
Work-in-progress/ Extract (updated Sept. 8, 2014) 108 Homes For Mary Brown— My friend —M— gave me a list of 108…
My Mission Blood: Tales from the Block! is a collaboration with residents born and bred in the Mission District of…
Untweetable Poems is a poetry series inspired by the oral histories told to Camarena by Mission District residents. These poems…
A Watershed of Tears: Arroyo de los Dolores (extract 1/5) Ocean fog protected the Bay from European discovery, until 1769,…
On January, 17, 2014, the “village” gathered around a campfire to hark the horrors of no-fault evictions of lifelong Mission…
“The corrido (Spanish pronunciation: [koˈriðo]) is a popular narrative song and poetry form, a ballad. […]It derives largely from the…
Homicides In The Mission (2008), Stats Part I Youth homicide is the leading cause of death among youth ages 15-24…
The First Eviction: Memory Once upon a time, long before the Mission was El Barrio and a hipster incubator, it…