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Jess X Chen articles

Jess X Chen is a Chinese American multi-disciplinary poet, artist/activist and filmmaker, and the author of chapbook, From the Earthworm To The Night. Her work intimately exposes narratives of ecological and colonial trauma, Asian-American diaspora, often from the perspective of the Earth itself. She is a member of Justseeds, a collective of socially-engaged artists. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and currently is working on writing and directing her first feature film under the production house, LoveHoldLetGo. Her films have been recognized by Asian-American International Film Festival, Yale Environmental Film Festival, her visual art has been exhibited by the Wingluke Museum and she has completed three national tours of spoken word poetry across the USA and Canada. She is one of the founding facilitators of Artists Against Police Violence, an online blog of graphic and arts resources for communities who fight against anti-Black police violence.

VIDEO: Migration is Both Natural and Magical to This Artist

May 11, 2017 by Jess X Chen Leave a Comment

Migration is Both Natural and Magical

When I was discovering art for the first time, I felt like there was a door that opened in my family’s ancestry, and I could be the first person to tell our story without the fear of censorship.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: China, Political Artwork, Worldwide

VIDEO: Ignite Closing Plenary at Netroots Nation 2015

October 11, 2015 by Jess X Chen Leave a Comment

Ignite Closing Plenary

Jess X Chen, Poet, Artist/Activist, Filmmaker, Educator and Democracy Chronicles contributor speaks at the Ignite Closing Plenary at Netroots Nation 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Democracy Charity, Democracy Protests, Political Artwork

Safe Passing For Colibrí on the US Mexican Border

June 25, 2015 by Jess X Chen Leave a Comment

Colibrí on US Mexican Border

The Spanish for hummingbird is colibrí. Colibrí are an indigenous symbol for safe passing. They soar as messengers between life and death, and their hundreds of species have been found migrating across the Mexico border

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Mexico, Political Artwork, South America

Why Own the Earth, When the Possession of it Will Kill You?

May 21, 2015 by Jess X Chen Leave a Comment

Why Own the Earth

As I watch the Earth draw nearer to its’ human-driven ecological collapse, I felt like I could relate to the disappearance of our planets’ body, the poison ready to burst just beneath the permafrost of the Earth’s skin, because my own world and family was being destroyed before my very the eyes.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Democracy Charity, Democracy Protests, Election History, Political Artwork

Poetry: From the Earthworm to the Night

March 23, 2015 by Jess X Chen Leave a Comment

From the Earthworm

This is a self-published 48 page collection of poems and illustrations that I made 2011-2014. Signed copies of ‘From the Earthworm to the Night’ available

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: China, Colonialism, Democracy Protests, Election History, Feminism, Political Artwork

Marking 50 Years Since Controversial 1965 Immigration Law

March 10, 2015 by Jess X Chen 1 Comment

1965 Immigration Law

Patterning their wings is a motif taken from signs that riddle highways along the US/Mexico Border, signifying the crossing of undocumented immigrants.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Election History, Latino Voting Rights, Mexico, Political Artwork, South America

On Immigration Burdens: A Return to the Wind

February 21, 2015 by Jess X Chen Leave a Comment

Immigration burdens wind

Earlier this month, I mailed an original painting and art/activism manifesto for two of my friends that became forever lost in transit through USPS. Thus, I made an online archive of the lost package.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: New York City and State Elections, Political Artwork, South America, Worldwide

Empire Into Forest: Pillars of White Supremacy

February 4, 2015 by Jess X Chen Leave a Comment

Three Pillars of White Supremacy

Gouache concept is based on the article, Hetero-patriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy (Rethinking Women of Color Organizing), by Andrea Smith.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: African-Americans and Democracy, Election History, Minority Voting Rights, Political Artwork, Racism and Prejudice

China’s Cultural Revolution: An Ode to My Burning Family

January 29, 2015 by Jess X Chen Leave a Comment

Chen China's Cultural Revolution

Familiar red imagery of Cultural Revolution propaganda to create something that speaks more truth to violence rather than the false utopia it represented

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Asia, China, Election History, Political Artwork

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