LAS BOCONAS
Living, Learning and Healing in CommunityĀ
Cofounders of Las Boconas, Fanny, Mary Albarran and Lily Ibarra share the many ways in which their intentional community supports one another, and how their values are woven into their relationships with each other and with their children
*This interview is mostly in Spanish
Colectiva Las Boconas are women/people from marginalized communities cultivating an intergenerational community of care and liberation in the Chicagoland area through mutual aid, raising free people, healthy gossip, joy, and rest. Fanny is a formerly undocumented, Mexican immigrant womyn. As a co-founder of Las Boconas, she collaborates with her family and community to cultivate intergenerational spaces for community care, healing and liberation. As an unschooler, Fanny learns alongside her kids and husband through play, curiosity and laughter. She nourishes her mind, body, and spirit by resting, reading, storytelling (healing gossip), dancing, gardening, and practicing ancestral healing. Mary Albarran is an immigrant woman from Mexico, and culturally, she is a hard-working woman but prefers to rest out of rebellion. Mary's passions are hiking, art, gardening, and walking with Pancho, her dog. Rogelia Lily Ibarra is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, a mother, writer, living at the intersection of healing, imagination, and liberation.
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