Dolissa Medina, a queer Chicana filmmaker, writer, and multimedia artist. She’s been making experimental films for 25 years, inspired by the places she’s lived: Brownsville, San Francisco, and Berlin. In this episode, she reflects on coming of age in Brownsville, a city along the border region and the importance of preservDolissa Medina is a filmmaker, home-maker, writer, and organizer whose art practice centers around queer world mending in borderland spaces. Exploring themes of belong and home, she’s been making experimental films for the past 25 years inspired by the places she’s lived: San Francisco, Berlin, and her hometown of Brownsville, Texas. In this episode, she reflects on coming of age in Brownsville, a city along the border region and the importance of preserving meaningful stories.

Follow her work: http://dolissamedina.com/

Recorded and released in 2018