This article outlines the digital storytelling methods used for a community based research project focused on issues of sexuality among California farmworkers: Sexualidades Campesinas. We note how our process of collaboration in the creation and production of digital stories was shaped by the context and our envisioned storytellers. We then offer a critical analysis of our own unique experience with digital storytelling in this project, focusing on a handful of concepts key to understanding the nature of our collaborative production process: community, affect and collaboration, storytelling, performance, and mediation, with an eye to the problem of ethics.
Articles by Elisa Oceguera
Elisa Oceguera is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cultural Studies Program at the University of California Davis. Her research investigates the role of care labor in sustaining queer sociality in farmworker communities. In 2007, she worked with Dr. Patricia Parker to develop Striving Sisters Speak, a community-based research project that later evolved into the Ella Baker Women's Center for young women of color based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is a co-founder of Queer Qumbia, a queer and trans grassroots benefit dance party in the SF Bay Area.