Wikimedia NYC and The Latinx Project are hosting the Wikipedia NYC 400 Edit-A-Thon: Nueva Yol on Friday, September 19, 2025 from 5pm to 8pm at 20 Cooper Square, New York. 

The program, coinciding with the Wikimedia NYC 400 campaign and Latinx Heritage Month, aims to create a space to uplift Latinx New Yorkers, histories, communities, and themes which should be on Wikipedia or might need a little update. No prior experience with Wikipedia is required to participate! 

Bring a laptop or the editing device of your choice.

Please RSVP via Eventbrite

For inspiration, you can consult our growing Latinx Studies library which will be on display. Additionally, visit the photography exhibition Escenas. Snacks and refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public. 

Wikipedia edit-a-thons have emerged as a powerful tool for communities that are underserved by the lack of diversity among Wikipedia content editors.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC’s Code of Conduct.

Join us at La Feria: Print Media Fair for the launch of Intervenxions Vol. 4. The issue will be available for purchase along with dozens of publications and art from independent creators. From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., we’ll be serving special treats to celebrate the publication. Meet editors Yara Simón and Alex Santana as well as contributors to the publication. We hope to see you there!

Intervenxions is The Latinx Project’s digital publication. Since 2022, Intervenxions has published a printed volume to document the work of our collaborators. This year’s issue features 14 articles on materiality, palimpsests, and regeneration.

Intervenxions Vol. 4. is made possible with support from the Henry Luce Foundation, Ford Foundation, Critical Minded, and the Mellon Foundation.

Join us for a full-day interdisciplinary conference titled Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge in Contemporary Culture, hosted by The Latinx Project. Featuring presentations by a range of scholars and cultural producers, each transforming contemporary visual culture, creative industries, and scholarship. Please RSVP for the conference via Eventbrite for campus access. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Please RSVP here

Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge in Contemporary Culture

Friday, October 10, 2025

9:00am Breakfast & Registration

9:50am Welcome

10:00am-11:40am Panel: Media and New Technologies

• Arcelia Gutiérrez (University of California, Irvine): The Case for Media Reparations

• Harold J. Leonard Navarro (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras): Beyond Recognition: Black Bodies, AI, and the Aesthetics of Recognition

• Michael Anthony Turcios (Northwestern University): Experiments with Burning ICE: Rage as Joy and Refuge

• Nathan Rossi (Northwestern University): Digital Mestizaje, the Datafication of Latinx Identity, and the Political Economy of Brownness on TikTok

• Ramón Resendiz (University of Oregon): Visualizing Archival Resistance: Producing Refuge & Justice through Documentary Media across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

• Moderator: Sharon De La Cruz (New York University)

11:50am-1:30pm Panel: Perspectives on Visual Art

• Armando Perla (University of Montreal): Diasporic Aesthetics of Resistance: Indigenous Mesoamerican Museologies and the Visual Politics of Memory

• Deanna Ledezma (University of Illinois Chicago): Lineages of Labor: Contemporary Latinx Artists at Work

• Debbie M Duarte (Pitzer College): Alien Toy Takes a Joyride: Sensing Borderless Futurities

• Joanne Gil Rivera (La Calle Loíza, Inc.): Somos Cangrejos: Mapa, Arte, Foro

• Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet (Howard University Gallery of Art): Africana Kairibe Malungaje: Futurist Reversed Memories

• Moderator: Robert Hernandez (Fordham University)

2:30pm-4:10pm Panel: Joy and Embodiment

• Andy Rafael Aguilera (Western Washington University): “It Means Good”: Resistance and Refuge in Latinx Streetwear Brands in the Age of Trump

• Gabrielle Vazquez (Curator): Diasporican Queens

• Jose Ferrufino (Industrial designer): Al mal tiempo, buena cara: The Making of Beauty

• Odalis Garcia Gorra (University of Texas at Austin): Dancing at the Threshold: Joy, Resistance, and the Counter-Archives of Diasporican

• Orquidea Morales (University of Arizona): Excess and Monstrosity: The Freedom and Pain of La Gordita

• Moderator: Gabriel Magraner (The Latinx Project)

4:20pm-6:00pm Panel: Migration and Border Culture

• Daniel J. Vázquez Sanabria (University of Texas at Austin): Return is/as Refuge: Crip Narratives of Migration in Contemporary Puerto Rican Cultural Productions

• Jose Alaniz (University of Washington, Seattle): Out of the Chispaverse: Chispa Comics as ‘Militarized Border Visuality’

• Kiri Avelar (University of Utah): Transnational Family Dance Lineages of the U.S./Mexico Bracero Program

• Mikayla Hernandez Guevara (School of the Art Institute of Chicago): What a Border to Cross: Domesticana, Material, and Aesthetics of Migration in Shaping a Transcendent Chicana Identity

• Taylor Seaver De La Fuente (University of Michigan): Lo Que Le Pasó al Valle

• Moderator: Cristina Beltrán (New York University)

6:00pm-7:00pm Community Reception

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Join the NYU Migration Network for a full-day conference exploring detention and deportation from multiple angles—past, present, and future. Through four panels with scholars, journalists, policy experts, and activists, we’ll examine how these practices shape US politics and immigration policy, from the historical roots of detention to the latest technologies of enforcement, and the on-the-ground organizing happening in New York City today. This event is co-sponsored in part by The Latinx Project and other centers and institutes.

NYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required.

Accessibility note: If you have any access needs, please email migration-network@nyu.edu.

Panel 1: The politics and policy of detention and deportation under Trump 2
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EDT

This panel sets the stage for a discussion of detention and deportation in the context of today’s politics and policies. Together, the panelists will help us make sense of the impact of this administration’s policies on the lives of immigrants and the way that a politics of detention and deportation is reshaping the United States of America.

Featured Panelists:
Adam Cox (New York University)
Muzaffar Chishti (Migration Policy Institute)
Tanya Greene (Human Rights Watch)
Miriam Jordan (New York Times)
Moderated by Natasha Iskander

Panel 2: History of detention and deportation
12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.

This keynote discussion will situate this unprecedented moment in the context of the contemporary history and geography of detention and deportation in immigration enforcement.

Featured Keynote Speaker:
Alison Mountz (University of Toronto)
Moderated by Radha S. Hegde

Panel 3: Technologies of detention and deportation
1:30pm-3:00pm

This panel focuses on the technologies and infrastructure of detention and deportation, from digital surveillance to the bureaucratic structure of ICE, to the financial institutions embedded in the business of detention.

Featured Panelists:
Kimberly Morgan (George Washington University)
Matthew Guariglia (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Nancy Hiemstra (Stony Brook University)
William Turton (Propublica)
Moderated by Aisha Khan

Panel 4: Activists in NYC
3:15pm-4:00pm

This panel brings together activist organizations and student groups to discuss the work that they are doing on the ground to support New Yorkers who are vulnerable to detention and deportation. The discussion will include a know-your-rights training.

Photograph source: Library of Congress, photograph by Dorothea Lange

Save the date for an engaging artist conversation between the artists participating in Escenas.  This panel will take place via Zoom.

RSVP link forthcoming

Escenas is made possible with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and the New York University Office of the Provost.

Join Alex Santana and Yara Simón, editors at Intervenxions and freelance writers, for this guide on how to pitch publications. This virtual discussion will cover how to write an effective pitch, find your niche, and target publications. We will present sample pitches, break down what Intervenxions is looking for, and offer tips and tricks to help you stand out to any publication.

Alex Santana is a writer, editor, and curator with an interest in conceptual art, political intervention, and public participation. Currently based in New York but originally from Newark, NJ, she has held positions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Joan Mitchell Center, Mana Contemporary, and Alexander Gray Associates. Her interviews and essays have been published by Hyperallergic, CUE Art Foundation, Terremoto Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Precog Magazine, NXTHVN, and Artsy. She is currently Associate Editor for Intervenxions, a publication of The Latinx Project at NYU.

Yara Simón is a Nicaraguan-Cuban-American editor, journalist, and author who has worked in Latinx media for more than a decade. Currently the deputy editor at Intervenxions, she is particularly passionate about covering topics that explore the Central American diaspora. She resides in Los Angeles with her daughter and husband.

Please save the date! Join us December 4, 2025 from 5-7pm for the closing of the exhibition.

Click to learn more about Escenas.

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Writing Fashion explores the dynamic field of Latinx fashion through the lenses of cultural studies and visual culture. Bringing together scholars and writers, it examines how fashion has been approached as a site of identity formation, resistance, and cultural expression. Panelists will discuss key trends, influential texts, and emerging theoretical frameworks—ranging from decolonial critique and embodiment to gender, race, and class analysis—that shape the study of Latinx fashion today. By foregrounding fashion as a powerful mode of visual storytelling, this conversation highlights its role in both challenging and reimagining dominant narratives within and beyond the fashion industry.