“Feeling Resonances: Archival Affiliations with Latinx Photography” aims to make two interventions: 1) to demonstrate how ordinary consumers and grocery store produce are entangled with the present-day labor and immigration concerns expressed in posts by the United Farm Worker Updates and 2) to disrupt and slow down the incessant scroll of social media consumption and the digital "feed." By connecting the digital activism of United Farm Workers Updates to larger historical frameworks, national media narratives, contemporary labor politics, and immigration reform, this lecture demonstrates the networked space of meaning making.
Deanna Ledezma, Ph.D. (she/her) is a Tejanx scholar, writer, and educator specializing in Latinx Studies, the history and theory of photography, contemporary art, and visual culture. Ledezma earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) in 2022. She is the Postdoctoral Research Associate and Program Coordinator for the Inter-University Program for Latino Research/UIC Mellon Fellowship Program (2022–24).
Originally published at latinostudies.nd.edu.