Eileen Chavez lives in the Hoyne House. We met previouly at the protest against the ICE.
«The situation of migrants gets me in a deep way. All my family has migrated. My father is Mexican, his parents arrived in the US many years ago, searching for work. My mother died when I was a child. She was Jewish, but I don’t really know where she came from : my grandparents fled the Second World War to Europe and they did not like to tell about their story. They may came from Russia or Poland, or another Eastern country. In fact, I do not know...»
«I like to publish fanzines. My drawings can be figurative or abstract. They help me to express the strong emotions that I feel when I strive to find a balance. Identity is at the center of my work. It touches different part of my life: of course there is the cultural identity, but also the gender. I am transgender. I do not feel like a woman or a man, I feel somewhere in between.»
