In this episode of Words on a Wire, Tim Z. Hernandez talks with Jackie Barragan. Jackie is a multidisciplinary Border artist, community advocate and practitioner of her indigenous healing traditions. She graduated from UTEP with a Bachelor’s in Anthropology and a Minor in Dance. She focused her studies on grassroots activism and studied extensively with the Zapatistas in Mexico.
In 2020, she made her first short film documentary JOSIE. Her film JOSIE has screened in a variety of film festivals around the country.
Barragan is also a part of the Femme Frontera collective. An organization of Latinx female-identifying filmmakers based out of the Border who’s purpose is to create more opportunities for Latinx, BIPOC, non-binary, and queer filmmakers to take back the narrative in underrepresented communities.
