Title: Amor y sacrificio
Description: Queer, Mexican writer and activist Sayuri Gomezs black and white collage Xerox style zine examines themes of love and sacrifice. For Gomez it is just as important to tell her own story as it is to tell her parents stories, “To advocate for them and make sure that their voices are not silenced by our own stories.” Gomezs zine features personal writing as well as an interview with her mother on the topic of crossing the U.S./Mexico border, a story of her father who was fired and denied health benefits for being undocumented, and lists of “Things To Never Say to an Undocumented Person” and “Abuses, Failures and Shortcomings of US Detention of Immigrants,” as well as a list of resources the reader can get involved in to fight for justice for undocumented immigrants.
Subjects: Mexican American women, Mexicans, Mothers and daughters, Comic books, strips, Zines
Places: United States
Time periods: 21st century