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Juarez, El Paso, Austin //2016

We wanted to learn more about how first-generation Latino students – those who are the first in their families to graduate – to understand what it takes to succeed at institutions that are often not equipped to support first-gen students. 

-Emmanuel Del Real (aka Meme) 

“Now you have a lot of white men making a lot of money from the plant — a plant that was once demonized, considered part of reefer madness, considered as dangerous as heroin,” says Espinosa. “On one hand people making money, but on the other hand people getting arrested, getting deported from it. We need to talk about this, make it something that’s spoken about, at least in our communities.”

“The river is a very concrete, tactile, significant, sacred thing and the concept of the border is an abstract arbitrary thing that was arbitrarily determined by a bunch of white dudes. How can people be engaged with this conception of the river if there is no memory of the river, no sense of it.”

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