And We Walk ｜ Taína Asili - And We Walk ｜ Taína Asili

What this video is

Released in 2016 against a backdrop of intensifying Black Lives Matter activism, Standing Rock pipeline protests, and growing intersectional feminist organizing in the United States, 'And We Walk' functions simultaneously as protest anthem and archival document. Asili, a New York-based Puerto Rican singer-filmmaker-activist, situates the video within a long tradition of Afro-Latin resistance music, fusing diaspora…

Why it matters

A defining example of 2010s independent Afro-Latin protest music video production — 'And We Walk' represents the convergence of activist documentary filmmaking and social-movement songwriting. As an artist-directed work from within the communities it depicts, it offers a counter-model to…

The director

Taína Asili is an American musician, singer, songwriter, poet, filmmaker and activist born in Binghamton, NY to Puerto Rican parents. She first came to prominence as singer for punk band Anti-Product in the late 1990s, and later fronted Taína Asili y la…