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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

The problem with quadrupling beat cops—armed with implicit bias and weapons—in the Mission

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My encounter at 24th Street Southeast BART Plaza, approximately at 1:30pm, Oct. 9th, 2017, Indigenous People’s Day I had just…

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Posted in: Accompaniment for families hurt by police Filed under: Essay

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

Mourning Luis the morning after the Frisco500 rise up

May 8, 2016 unsettlers

Mourning a police shooting On April 7, 2016 at 10:04am, two SFPD officers killed Luis Góngora Pat, a Mayan Yucatecan…

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Posted in: Accompaniment for families hurt by police Filed under: Essay

#OctoberTogether, More than just baseball…

October 28, 2014 unsettlers 2 Comments

#OctoberTogether, More than just baseball… Dedicated to Bay Area families victims of police brutality and their supporters I. October Spirit…

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Posted in: Accompaniment for families hurt by police Filed under: Essay, Installation

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

With patada!: Exposing the Eviction of Yolanda M. Lopez (2014 collaborative installation)

June 21, 2014 unsettlers

This post is a documentation of installation work with Yolanda Lopez related to forced eviction. 1. Meeting A Mission Legend…

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Posted in: Installations Filed under: Essay, Installation, Photography

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

May Day: The Nieto Family Story

May 1, 2014 unsettlers 4 Comments

Refugio Nieto and Elvira Rodriguez (now Elvira Nieto) were born a year apart in the little town of Tarimoro, Guanajuato,…

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Posted in: Accompaniment for families hurt by police Filed under: Essay

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