Join Susan Briante, Cristina Rivera Garza, Anthony Cody and Joanna Williams for celebration of Susan's new book Defacing the Monument in support of Kino Border Initiative.

**This event will be broadcast via YouTube Live. Register for free for a link to be sent to you the day of the event.**

A former journalist, Susan Briante started taking graduate students to the US-Mexico border in 2016 to research and write about migration issues. What began as essays documenting the crisis turned into a reflection on documentary poetics: the act of witnessing and writing about the suffering of others. Opening with the narration of an Operation Streamline hearing— a proceeding during which as many as 75 undocumented migrants were criminally prosecuted and sentenced en masse to serve jail time prior to deportation— Defacing the Monument shows what happens to those who do not hold the “correct” documents and highlights how the archive…