Ah Manam Hays County Community!
NAKUM (nah-koom), the Coahuiltecan word meaning “we speak” or “I speak to you,” is significant especially now because both language and communication bring us together as a community, allow us to express ourselves and understand each other.
We speak to our friends, families, pets, neighbors, and teachers. We also speak to ourselves and have the power to speak to our community and be heard and understood.
During this transformational time as our communities are working and organizing tirelessly to advocate for justice and liberation from state sanctioned violence and as we are collectively experiencing COVID where many of us may be feeling isolated and unheard:
The medicine of now is to connect to who we are, what our role is in the movements, and to use our voice.
This project asks our youth to hand write about their identity, share who they are with our community and why it matters to them to be counted in the 2020 Census.