Here is a portrait of Lourdes from "Our Stories of Resistance" #CommunitiesNotCages zine by Miguel Lopez, DWN's Artist in Residency 2022. @miguelinmalandrin Lourdes is a strong, helpful, resilient woman from Bolivia. She was previously detained at Irwin Detention Center in Georgia where she spent almost a year enduring and witnessing many forms of abuse and human rights violations She describes the place as a "human slaughterhouse." Despite those traumatic experiences, Lourdes is someone who has not given up and finds her strength in her goal of creating a better tomorrow for her daughter and mother; both of them are represented by the scorpions in the image. Lourdes comes from a place of mountains and identifies herself with water, which is represented in the water drops on her sweater and the eternity symbol formed by the scorpions weaving that eternal love for each other and their native land. Freedom for her is being able to have the support needed to accomplish her dreams, being able to see the dawn and the sunset, and being able to feel joy. ✨ Each individual portrait of the ten directly impacted individuals celebrates what brings that person joy. Miguel interviewed each person by phone to better understand their story and create their portrait based on their own words. Miguel’s portraits were featured at this year’s DWN member conference. Read the rest of Lourdes’s story by downloading the zine at: detentionwatchnetwork.org/artistinresidency