Sexualidades Campesinas

LGBTQ Farm Worker Digital Stories Project

This project aims to collect stories told by sexually diverse (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer: LGBTQ) members of farm worker communities from rural California. These digital stories are part of an ongoing research project at the University of California at Davis and Santa Cruz in collaboration with the CalHumanities, UC California Studies Consortium and UC MEXUS.

What is digital storytelling?

This is a collaborative storytelling project that uses informal interviews and conversations to create a digital story. Digital Stories are a creative a combination of images,text, recorded audio narration,video clips and/or music.

Why participate in the Powerful Stories?

Digital Storytelling gives individuals and communities the opportunity to share knowledge and experiences with others. This collaborative project empowers storytellers to shape and tell the stories that will communicate their life experiences and personal concerns. Our project aims to make visible the day-to-day struggles of LGBTQ farm workers in order to help improve social services and combat discrimination.

Who can participate?

LGBTQ identified Farm Workers living in the California Central Valley or SalinasValley who speak Spanish and/or English.

The researchers

Robert Irwin
Chair, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies and Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis

Juan Poblete
Professor, Department of Literature, Kresge Provost,
University of California, Santa Cruz

Tania Lizarazo
Assistant Professor of Digital Intercultural Communication and Global Studies
University of Maryland, Baltimore

Elisa Oceguera
Doctoral  student, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies,
University of California, Davis

Diana Pardo Pedraza
Doctoral student, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies,
University of California, Davis

David Tenorio
Doctoral student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of California, Davis

Alejandro Rossi
Doctoral student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of California, Davis

Carmen Valdivia-Ponce
Doctoral student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of California, Davis