Nuestra Delta Magica — Nansi Guevara

Nuestra Delta magica

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In response to the racial and environmental injustices happening in the Rio Grande Valley, fronterizas Nansi Guevara and Monica Sosa co-curated ***Nuestra Delta Magica: Dismantling Settler Imaginaries & Community Resistance***. Nuestra Delta Magica was up for two months between April and May of 2023. Nuestra Delta Magica is now a narrative change and research project that investigates untold South Texas history of land settlement and colonization as a precedent to current environmental neo-colonialism. NDM makes educational media, comics, and designs narrative change workshops centered on dismantling the false narrative of “there is nothing here”, commonly found in rural communities.
The exhibit featured the work of six border artists in Downtown Brownsville, Texas with the support of Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).

Context

In the last 8 years, neocolonial corporations like LNG and SpaceX have moved into our home, salivating the borderlands for profit and exploiting local wildlife, vegetation, and marginalized communities. In September 2022, the SpaceX testing site on Boca Chica Beach, incited a large fire burning 68 acres of protected refuge land, destroying local wildlife and vegetation. This is not an isolated incident, it goes past the last 8 years of SpaceX operating in Boca Chica, where subsidies and tax breaks have been granted from Cameron County, and environmental state laws and policy protecting gulf waters have been bypassed. LNG fracking is being supported by the local city government and local residents are continually being silenced. This also has a historical precedent in the region, in the form of recurrent colonization.

Sources:

https://www.borderreport.com/regions/texas/lawsuit-argues-texas-cant-close-public-beach-for-spacex-launches/

https://www.krgv.com/news/spacex-fire-burns-68-acres-of-protected-refuge/

https://www.ran.org/the-understory/rio-grande-valley-at-risk-from-from-fracked-gas-terminals/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-r-vBhC-ARIsAGgUO2Am4xwUDaddrZXSCiKjxMqplN0TPC_7JntpSKIwSfUvzQG3J7TAWsQaAsp9EALw_wcB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgRSADC6dpA&t=4s

About the Curators:

Nansi Guevara & Monica Sosa were born and raised on the border of South Texas, millennials from working class Mexican immigrant families. Monica is from Brownsville, Texas and Nansi is from Laredo, TX. Both identify as femme muxerista fronterizas who continually fight against imposed narratives. They want to co-create true reflections of the beauty of their communities, and demand a healthy and habitable environment for all to grow and thrive in South Texas.