BENJAMIN LUNDBERG TORRES SÁNCHEZ
Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez (b. 1987, Bogotá) uses their art to transform individual witness into collective action.
As a person who was separated from their first family for 28 years through a private, transnational adoption process, they co-create spaces that encourage people to express truth to power by working together in shared knowing and practice.
Lundberg Torres Sánchez’s work has been shown in the U.S. at the Queens Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, The Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, RISD Museum, and the Knockdown Center, and internationally in Montreal, Mexico City, São Paulo, Lima, and La Paz.
They are the founder of the exhibition series, Se Aculilló?, co-editor of You Are Holding This: an abolitionist zine for and by adopted and fostered people, and were the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts 2017 and 2018 Merit Fellow in New Genres and Film & Video respectively.
FELLOWSHIP PROJECT AND ENGAGEMENT
WE ARE HOLDING THIS ft. Blueprints
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Invest in Community Self-Governance
The launch of WeAreHoldingThis.org, a media distribution hub founded to weave together efforts of various groups working to abolish family regulation, surveillance, and policing world wide.
The site will feature a visionary newspaper, created with parent organizers, that calls forth the abolition of New York City’s Administration of Children’s Services with a future New York Times headline: ACS Abolished!
Within, readers will learn about some current efforts of parent organizers, and some of the key policies that can be intervened to dismantle the Child Welfare Industrial Complex.
ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY
To support this project, pre-order Blueprints, and sponsor issues of You Are Holding This on weareholdingthis.org. This will increase our printing capacity, and ensure more directly impacted people receive these materials.
With the imminent Roe v. Wade over-turn, it is critical that people on the left challenge their ideas of adoption and foster care. Adoption and foster care are not benevolent systems. Adoption is not an alternative to abortion. Foster care is not a place for “unwanted children who were not aborted”.
Benjamin can be reached at benjofaman@gmail.com.
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