Description

UnAmerican Dreams is a zine of testimonios by Texans impacted by state violence. As part of her fellowship with Texas After Violence, Juania Sueños interviewed Jose Becerra, Fatiha & Othmane, and Jayden.

In Juania’s own words:

“This project began as a wish to honor people I care for deeply (half of them family
members) who lost the privileges I now hold: freedom, certainty in legal status—the
ability to cross borders. With tremendous support from the Texas After Violence
Project, who guided me through conducting these interviews, I’m able to present six
different deeply personal stories—three included in this volume, and the remaining
in the proceeding one—of folks who’ve survived State-led violence. Though each
section is unique, they share a depiction of the ways in which the United States’
‘justice’ system atrophies the spirit. Several stories speak of sexual abuse, murder,
and other horrific events. These vignettes are windows into a world of each inter-
viewee planted here through drawings, photos, and their first-person accounts of
the world of which they were forced out. Criminalization labels and reduces people’s
abilities to move about in the world of capitalism, especially the possibility of mov-
ing up economically, yet the State will never access dreams. Dreams transcend laws,
borders. They flow freely and shift as we live through different circumstances.”

Printed on Risograph.