Past Events

Rising Into liberatory Futures

Thank you to all who attended! For everyone else, it’s not too late to celebrate this BorderLinks anniversary with us: 35 years of learning, teaching, reflecting, and organizing from the borderlands for freedom of movement!

You are an important part of what makes us who we are. We are highlighting our space as a community resource for movement work in the borderlands. Join us to honor where we’ve been, share stories, and build comunidad for where we’re going next. BorderLinks has a new mission and vision and we need our community to make it a reality! Donate to our 35th anniversary campaign

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BorderLinks Pláticas Series

We are celebrating our 35th anniversary! BorderLinks is a response to the profound dehumanization, and legal and extralegal violence migrants face. Central to the BorderLinks mission is the use of popular education to transform the world through critical awareness, reflection, and informed collective action. We invite you to deepen your understanding with us through our BorderLinks Pláticas Series. Join us in discussion with our guest speakers as we explore the themes of community resistance through art and activism. Check out our event schedule, learn more, and register using the links below.

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A virtual discussion with Profe Silvia Rodriguez Vega, author of Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children.

Drawing Deportation illustrates how the children of immigrants use art to grapple with issues of citizenship, state violence, and belonging.Young immigrant children often do not have the words to express how their lives are shaped by issues of immigration, legal status, and state-sanctioned violence. Yet they are able to communicate its effects on them using art.

October 11th, 2023, 3:00pm PT/6pm ET

NOVEMBER 8TH, 2023

A virtual discussion with Fronteristxs: Art and Change.

We are a collective of artists in New Mexico working to end migrant detention and abolish the prison industrial complex. We imagine and fight for a world of liberation for all. The speakers include Dr. Bernadine Hernández, Martín Wannam, hazel batrezchavez, and Szu-Han Ho

November 8th, 2023 @ 3pm AZ + NM (2pm PT/5 pm ET)

DECEMBER 13TH, 2023

A virtual discussion with Dr. Michelle Tellez, co-editor of The Chicana M(other)work Anthology.

The Chicana M(other)work Anthology weaves together emerging scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who center mothering as transformative labor through an intersectional lens. Contributors provide narratives that make feminized labor visible and that prioritize collective action and holistic healing for mother-scholars of color, their children, and their communities within and outside academia.

December 13th, 2023 @ 3pm AZ + NM (2pm PT/5 pm ET)

About BorderLinks

Humanity is living through a moment of extreme climate change, global displacement, and militarization. BorderLinks offers transformative, migrant justice education. We highlight people’s power to affect change. At BorderLinks, we see, we think, we act. Our participants collectively learn, teach, reflect, share resources, and organize for liberation. Located 60 miles from the AZ-Sonora border, we believe in the power of this unique, and historically, culturally and demographically diverse region. We contribute to advocacy efforts and social movements. At the heart of BorderLinks, we center those most directly impacted by immigration policies and others working for systemic change. BorderLinks hosts virtual and in-person workshops and week-long delegations with high school, university, faith, and civic groups from Tucson, the US, and worldwide. This year, we’re celebrating our 35th anniversary!