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"Mwen te pran yon apèl de Dey ak Jorge yon ti tan apre tanpèt la. Mwen te mangonmen sou yo e yo te soulaje tande vwa yo, menm si heartbroken tande estrès la ak fatig ak sitèlman chaj nan ant mo yo, ki te ankouraje m 'yo kreye yon kat jeyografik yo montre ak klarifye moman sa a politik nan pòs-Maria reyalite. Soti nan medya pwoteksyon nan tanpèt la ak konsekans li yo, mwen pieced ansanm plizyè verite debaz devwale pa Siklòn Maria ak reyalite yo sipòte ki defann yo, konsantre sitou sou kapitalis dezas, kontèks la nan US enperyalis nan Karayib la, ak US-enpoze osterize ekonomik la. ki te wreaked tap fè ravaj nan Puerto Rico nan dènye ane yo. Apre plizyè jij nan fidbak fidbak soti nan jan nan Santure, ak anpil jou nan konvèsasyon ak ekip la ki ta ka pran yon plonje anpil pi fon nan fè yon woulo liv dekolonyal nan mwa k ap vini yo, mwen mete desann kèk ilistrasyon rapid sa yo verite. Mapaje radyo, verite sa yo egzije visualiseur a baskile imaj la (oswa tèt yo!) Tèt anba pou atrab foto an plen. ”-Reflection Emily Simons #disastercapitalism
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“I took a call from Dey and Jorge shortly after the storm. I had been worrying about them and was relieved to hear their voices, though heartbroken to hear the stress and exhaustion and overwhelm in between their words, which were encouraging me to create a map to show and clarify the political moment of post-Maria reality. From media coverage of the storm and its aftermath, I pieced together several core truths revealed by Hurricane Maria and the supporting realities that uphold them, focusing mostly on disaster capitalism, the context of US imperialism in the Caribbean, and the US-imposed economic austerity that has wreaked havoc in Puerto Rico in recent years. After several rounds of candlelit feedback from folks in Santurce, and many days of conversation with the team that would be taking a much deeper dive by making a decolonial scroll in the months to come, I set down some quick illustrations to those truths. Mapped radially, these truths require the viewer to flip the image (or themselves!) upside down to grasp the full picture.” -Reflection by Emily Simons #disastercapitalism #decolonizepuertorico #seacabaronlaspromesas #papelmachete #agitarteculturalworks