Jonathon Burne-Espinoza

Jonathon Burne-Espinoza was born in Los Angeles, California to an Afro-Honduran mother and an Irish-descendant father. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Jonathon is working in public interest immigration law where they are learning how to be an effective migrant justice organizer. Jonathon is passionate about connecting creative expression and political organizing between revolutionary movements, and is committed to liberatory education amongst oppressed groups throughout the world. They are an aspiring poet and musician.

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In the Presence of Absence | Jonathon Burne-Espinoza

“Another thread, and the one that I feel most acutely: U.S. cultural imperialism has robbed us both of our cultural identities. The visceral awareness of lacking, the presence of absence (a phrase borrowed from the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish) which transcends time and space, spans across peoples who have had their lands, communities, bodies, and spirits stolen, commodified, and repackaged back to them disfigured in the rhetoric of diversity, humanitarianism, and progress.”

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In the Presence of Absence | Jonathon Burne-Espinoza