Parallel violence and colonial subjugation in Guatemala and Palestine
Sara el-Solh & Illustration: Paola De La Cruz
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Paola De La Cruz spent her most impressionable years in the Dominican Republic alongside the warm sun and singing wind. Upon moving to Boston at the age of nine, she was inspired by the activist movements happening around her.
Think of the Romanticism art movement featuring Black and Brown folks; picture ethereal black and brown femmes bathing in the warmth of nature and her motherly embrace. Paola interweaves digital and analog media, patterns, stitching and shape-based illustrations to evoke intimacy while challenging the themes of cultural identity, coming of age, and metamorphosis.
Paola currently resides in Portland, OR.
Discussing No Choice: by Becca Andrews
Emma Campbell & Illustration: Paola De La Cruz
Afrohunting is leading the Afro-Argentine renaissance that tells a different story
Larissa Kennedy & Illustration: Paola De La Cruz
On preserving Indigenous identity and cultural survival within diasporic realities
Samara Almonte & Illustration: Paola De La Cruz
Empowerment through reconnecting to women in my family
Samara Almonte & Illustration: Paola De La Cruz
How the KOSINIMA, Inc. fund is opening doors for Black womxn creatives
Oluwaseun Babalola & Illustration: Paola De La Cruz
