Status Updates From Notes on the Assemblage

from borderbus: “no somos nada y venimos de nada / pero esa nada lo es todo si la nutres de amor / por eso venceremos / we are everything hermana

( reminds me of place vs non-place. the bus. central to the chicano canon since rivera. you could trace changing tides with how the bus is written abt. even rivera notes how the bus has changed. a comparison is due. hay hermanxs … )