TRINIDAD ESCOBAR
A poem-comic based on the real-life experiences of disabled organizers and disaster survivors.
About the Artist
Trinidad Escobar is a multidisciplinary artist from the Philippines who grew up on colonized, ancestral Tamien Ohlone land in California, USA. She is a cartoonist of poetry, memoir, and journalism comics.
Trinidad is a former college professor of Race & Comics at California College of the Arts. She continues her work as a grassroots popular education teacher in partnership with community efforts like the Queer Ancestors Project. Trinidad is a descendant of fishermen and singers, Waray warriors, the anti-colonial revolutionary Katipuneros, veterans of World War II and the Vietnam War. She is a lifelong student of Buddhism, martial arts, and abolition.
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About the Partner Organization
Crip Survival Network is a disability- and language justice-centered initiative which unites participating organizations to strengthen and uplift each other as we face various natural and unnatural disasters affecting the lives of marginalized, BIPOC and queer/trans/non-binary disabled people in the communities we serve. It is a project of Sins Invalid with key leadership by The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies.