Papalotes en Resistencia

Papalotes En Resistencia proposes to weaponize our communities through our

very own culture, heritage, and traditions. This project seeks to arm

and empower latinx migrant communities and allies through

traditional kite-making practices smuggled from Federico

Cuatlacuatl’s home state, Pueba, Mexico. Papalotes En Resistencia

mobilizes our communities to protest immigration urgencies and to

engage in the various tactics of cultural sustainability. How do we

weaponize ourselves with our own culture? How does culture

become a weapon for thriving and sustaining? How do we embrace

being the ‘other’ under so much xenophobia as a means of resisting

and building solidarity? How does smuggling one’s own heritage

become an act of resistance? This project recognizes that we are

under a national emergency of a humanitarian migration crisis and

the need for action, solidarity, and protesting through the

weaponization of culture. To make and fly smuggled traditional kites

collectively is an act of resistance, peaceful protesting, and anti-racist

actions.