a No Estoy Aquí (I’m No Longer Here,) the latest feature film by director and screenwriter Fernando Frías de la Parra, is now available on Netflix, and it shines a light on one of the most fascinating street cultures originated in Mexico: Monterrey’s Kolombianos, now known as Cholombianos.

n 2007, English fashion designer Amanda Watkins was living in Monterrey, Mexico when she stumbled upon a group of teenagers dancing to cumbia by the river.  Sporting looks best described as LA cholo meets Colombia’s Caribbean coast, their heads were crowned with elaborately gelled hairstyles, and they waved graffiti-style signs over their heads as they danced

the medium’s dissociative effects prevent us from centering the humanity of the people involved

The world floods into your life anyway. What had been private is now uncontrollably crowdsourced. Your consent becomes a trifling detail in a story about you that suddenly belongs to everyone else.

The ethics — and even the definition — of doxxing is murky. It is the dissemination of often publicly available information. And, some at the protest asked, are you really doxxing a person if he or she is marching on a public street, face revealed and apparently proud? It is not as though they are hiding their identities.

“For us, it slows things down. We try to integrate people back to humanity,” Mr. McAleer said. “If isolation and shame is the driver for people joining these types of groups, doxxing certainly isn’t the answer.”

¡De Monterrey para el mundo! El largometraje mexicano Ya no estoy aquí por fin llega a Netflix, después de haber sido uno de los estrenos más sonados del año 2019 y en el que abordan temas como la identidad, la migración forzada, la discriminación, la violencia y la desigualdad social. 

The culture began in Colombia, as the name might suggest, but it truly took off and thrived in the 1980s and 90s in the Mexican city of Monterrey, where a shared passion for cumbia music mixed with a desire to stand out and go against the norm led to a loyal community of Cholombianos.

Cholombianos — a New Art Exhibit Unpacks a Mexican Subculture That Takes Its Cues from Colombia https://belatina.com/cholombianos-a-new-art-exhibit/… via @BeLatina

.” Among those testifying before the subcommittee was Michael C. McGarrity, the director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. McGarrity explained that right-wing extremists like the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter in Pittsburgh were charged with hate crimes instead of domestic terrorism simply because “there’s no domestic terrorism charge.

Because it is these simple behaviors, applied as habits and enforced as norms, that have the power to change the web as we know it, to break our cycle of reaction and recognition, and ultimately to get even our deeper investigations off to a better start.