Kimiya Factory and Taylor Waits along with other students on campus at UTSA have been working to voice their dissatisfaction with UTSA’s handling of sexual assault investigations, claiming that women are being raped and sexually assaulted by some of the same prominent students on campus. They are ultimately seeking to change the rape culture on their college campus. "The movement made itself but we kind of just listened," Factory says. Waits added that she sees tape being stigmatized in society and in institutions like UTSA. “It (rape) happens a lot and it happens very often,” Waits went onto say. “It happens with individuals you think are your friends or are close to you.” Factory explained that by she and fellow students not standing down “is the only way to confront it and keep trying to move forward and heal." #saninternio
Scouting has been an important piece of Michalea Oakes’ life. "I went from being a shy, conserved kid to wanting to go out there and do things," she shares. The 17-year-old is a current Venture Scout and fifth generation Eagle Scout hopeful through the new BSA Scouts program coming in February. The new program will allow young women to join the previously all-male world of Boy Scouts through the formation of all-girl pack next year. San Antonio has had 753 young women join Cub Scout packs this year. Oakes is excited about the inclusion and says that Scouts have shown her that she can do more than she thought she ever could. "I want girls to believe in themselves like that. I want them to gain the confidence to be leaders and get out there and I think the Boy Scout program will do that." #saninternio
"Part of our lives we've always served others and always wanted to help in those capacities," John Sanchez says of his and his wife Deanna's decision to become foster parents. The couple underwent special training to provide trauma-informed Trust-Based Relational Intervention care for their three foster children to address their trauma and help them heal. "It's a process of trust and of them getting used to you," says Deanna of building relationships with her foster children who came from abusive situations. "They were not able to trust others and they to build that trust with us." #saninternio
Eva Sanchez gently touches the head stone of her father-in-law, Carlos Sanchez, and her mother-in-law, Mary Sanchez, as she visits their graves to decorate them at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. Sanchez spruces up the head stone often saying "I love to do it." Carlos was an Airforce medic who fought in WWII and was one of the airmen who flew over Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped, explained Sanchez. After being together around 63 years, Mary Sanchez died of dementia in Jan. 2017 and a year later her husband Carlos died. "He died from a broken heart," Eva Sanchez says. #saninternio
This week something pretty amazing happened: I was named College Photographer of the Year Runner-Up. I am utterly grateful and ecstatic to receive this honor. I have been thinking of all the people and relationships that were represented in my work and how grateful I have been to meet and help tell their stories this year. I am honored to be among the numerous other amazing and talented college photographers from all over the world who also entered. The future of photojournalism is going to be amazing and I’m so excited to see what my peers and I will accomplish. I want to thank my photo family who have never failed to support me and help me. I am also thankful for the judges and everyone involved in CPOY that provides an amazing chance to learn and grow. But most importantly I am beyond grateful for my friends and family who have been there for me even if I’m over 1,000 miles away. This is nothing but motivation for me to keep moving forward and work even harder to be the best visual storyteller I can be.
Cardi B at Mala Luna Festival. #saninternio
Family members react to hearing the news of the death of a 20-year old and the injury of two others following a shooting on Mystic Sunrise Thursday evening. #saninternio
From normal dude on the street to a frightening neon green clown Kevin Troutt loves the transformation. Troutt has been scaring people at 13th Floor for nine years- that’s a a lot of frightened screams. #saninternio
Rebecca Areiola prays during an outdoor mass held on a hot Sunday afternoon to celebrate and give thanks for the canonization of Father Óscar Romero held at Christ the King Catholic Church. The church has ties with El Salvador having done mission work there and was excited to celebrate Romero. #saninternio
One minute 13 year-old Kaden Hawkins was working on his AP algebra worksheet and then the next his dad Army Special Forces Medical Sgt. Shan Hawkins, who has been deployed since May, walks in arms wide saying “Come here Kaden.” Needless to say Kaden was pretty excited. #saninternio
It’s the International Day of the Girl and the girls of Girl Scouts of East Texas Girl Genius program is fitting for the mission of Day of the Girl. The program provides space for supporting the girls involved as they develop their leadership and academic skills after school so they can reach their full potential. #saninternio
This is a little over due, but oh well...Been thinking of this summer and how wonderful San Antonio has been treating me and how I’m super excited to be able to stay for the fall as I continue my internship at the Express-News. I will be returning to Michigan to finish my last two semesters of school. I am incredibly thankful for this opportunity and will be making the most of my remaining time in Alamo City and am already dreading leaving the sunshine and warm weather (and also HEB). Photo credit: the pretty cool Gabriel #saninternio
(Part 2 of 2) Even though development of short term rentals in the area has brought tourists and visitors to Terlingua, the resulting housing crisis has had a big effect. Local business have started to provide onsite housing or camping spots to give employees a place to live because housing beyond a few night stay is scarce. As Karen Allen, a bartender and server at the local watering hole La Kiva, explained, “Everyone wants us to work but no body wants to provide a place to live.” Now, Terlingua is coming to a crossroads of the future and preserving the Terlingua that drew it’s eccentric citizens to the desert. #saninternio
(Post 1 of 2) For the locals of Terlingua The Porch, located in the heart of the ghost town, is the heart of the town that attracted many of its residents to the secluded nature of the far southwest Texas town. In light of recent developments in the area, many residents are concerned that the heart of the Terlingua they love will be lost. When Ceil Drucker came to the Big Bend area she said “I felt like I could breathe for the first time.” She ended up staying and now 20 years later she’s worried about the nightly rentals that keep popping up. “We always kill the things we love.” #saninternio
GeekFest NOLA was something else and I’m so happy to have spent the weekend with old and new amazing photo family members. #gfnola