This is a short zine I created in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

I traced the connections between radicalized violence masked as public health. This zine intertwines the personal with the historical. I tell a familial story as I draw the parallels between Mexicans at the border subjected to fumigation in the early 1900s and the continued environmental poisoning of the Central Valley and its inhabitants.

Dedicated to Carmelita Torres and the many others who taught us how to resist the poisoning.

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Dolores Huerta, “Proclamation of the Delano Grape Workers for International Boycott Day, May 10, 1969,” HERB: Resources for Teachers, accessed June 7, 2020, https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/2036.

Johnson, J. “Reasons Behind Riot.” El Paso’s Santa Fe Bridge Disinfecting Plant, 2013, elpasogasbaths.weebly.com/reasons-behind-riot.html.

Media, Vox, director. The Dark History of “Gasoline Baths” at the Border. Youtube.com, YouTube, 2019, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkD6QfeRil8.

Seibel, Brendan. “These Intimate Photos Chronicle the Mexican Worker Program That Helped ‘Feed and Build America’.” Medium, Timeline, 19 Dec. 2017, timeline.com/bracero-mexican-worker-program-f1316f183bc8.