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Category: Non-Fiction Literary Writer

The Latinx Epidemic in San Francisco

November 14, 2020 unsettlers

Below please find the links to a series of articles and commentaries that I have written since June 2020 related…

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Posted in: Community Journalism, Non-Fiction Literary Writer

Policing and police reform

November 12, 2020 unsettlers

From time to time, I’ll publish a commentary on policing and police reform in the City. Below are links to a few such articles.

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Posted in: Community Journalism, Non-Fiction Literary Writer

Unsettled/ Inquietos: A collaboration with El Tecolote, the bilingual newspaper of the Mission!

October 9, 2017 unsettlers

Adriana Camarena is proud to collaborate with Accion Latina to create and distribute “Unsettled/Inquietos,” a series of literary non-fiction essays…

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Posted in: Unsettled in the Mission Filed under: Essay, Interview, Photography, Storytelling

Adriana Camarena responds to YBCA’s “Take This Hammer Exhibit” as part of Ten Bay Area Writers Respond, June 7th, 2016

June 8, 2016 unsettlers

An essay by Adriana Camarena about affordable housing, police brutality, homelessness, art and activism. The author was commissioned by the…

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Posted in: Non-Fiction Literary Writer, Unsettled in the Mission Filed under: Essay

The Naming of Things

June 4, 2016 unsettlers

The Naming of Things* For Chris Carlsson, and in memory of “Processed World” magazine. I have found the place where…

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Posted in: Non-Fiction Literary Writer Filed under: Essay

108 Homes

September 8, 2014 unsettlers

Work-in-progress/ Extract (updated Sept. 8, 2014) 108 Homes For Mary Brown— My friend —M— gave me a list of 108…

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Posted in: Unsettled in the Mission Filed under: Essay

My Mission Blood: Tales From The Block!

May 30, 2014 unsettlers

My Mission Blood: Tales from the Block! is a collaboration with residents born and bred in the Mission District of…

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Posted in: Unsettled in the Mission Filed under: Storytelling

Untweetable Poems (141 character poems)

May 17, 2014 unsettlers

Untweetable Poems is a poetry series inspired by the oral histories told to Camarena by Mission District residents. These poems…

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Posted in: Non-Fiction Literary Writer, Unsettled in the Mission Filed under: Photography, Poetry

Matres Dolorosas: A Watershed of Tears

May 10, 2014 unsettlers

A Watershed of Tears: Arroyo de los Dolores (extract 1/5) Ocean fog protected the Bay from European discovery, until 1769,…

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Posted in: Unsettled in the Mission Filed under: Essay

Campfire: Eviction Community Stories

April 21, 2014 unsettlers

On January, 17, 2014, the “village” gathered around a campfire to hark the horrors of no-fault evictions of lifelong Mission…

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Posted in: Unsettled in the Mission, Video Filed under: Event, Storytelling, Video

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