Women on the Border mourns the loss of documentary filmmaker and activist Lourdes Portillo, who passed away in late April, in San Francisco, California. In 2002, award winning filmmaker Lourdes Portillo released Señorita Extraviada, or Young Missing Woman,...
Renowned photojournalist David Bacon is known for using photography to humanize the realities of life on the U.S.-Mexican border. His work beautifully highlights the tragedies most people don’t see behind the persistent rhetoric that America needs bigger,...
Please check out this new addition to the Reimagining the Border section of our website: “Metabolizing the Border,” by Tanya Aguiñiga. Raised in Tijuana, artist and craftswoman Aguiñiga has spent her career exploring the emotional impact of the border on...
