I follow stories that linger: stories of migration and mourning, of steadfast care, of histories at risk of being erased — mostly threading through and out of the Mission District. Through nonfiction writing, photography, and collaborative installations, I work against erasure, hoping for repair.
Unsettled / Inquietos
A portrait-based series of bilingual literary nonfiction essays published in El Tecolote between 2017 and 2020, with support from the Creative Work Fund. The series documents layered lives in the Mission District across stories of migration, belonging, survival, and historical erasure.
Campfire: Eviction Community Stories
A collaborative video storytelling project sharing first-person narratives of Mission residents affected by displacement. This series highlights the power of testimony, memory, and resistance through video interviews and group documentation.
La Llorona: Essay and Public Lamentation
A performance and public ritual project honoring the grief and disruption caused by eviction in the Mission. Combining artistic collaborations, street procession and essay-based reflection, this piece engages displacement as both personal loss and collective reckoning.
Photo Essays from the Mission
A collection of visual essays documenting grief, ritual, resistance, and everyday sacredness in the Mission District. Some essays are extensions of the Unsettled/Inquietos series, told through images.
- Mission Spirits
- Street Altars
- LessHome
- Still Life After Dark
- Redlined (originally part of Unsettled/Inquietos)
- The Girl Who Tamed the Beast (originally part of Unsettled/Inquietos)
Other Writings
Short-form essays, poems, and fragments that reflect daily life, resistance, and remembrance in the Mission. These writings extend across formats and time, offering quiet but insistent reflections on place and presence.
- The Naming of Things
- Breaking Bland in the Mission
- Street Food
- Untweetable Poems
- The Corrido of El Cabe