In light of border wall building for the past 10+ years in the Rio Grande Valley of Tejas with the federal government's plans for more, and in light of additional policies that negatively affect us, our families, and our communities, Resistencia: Poets Against Walls Collective aims to tell, document, and share communal stories from individual perspectives--through poetry, testimonio, and the spoken word--about life here en la frontera, stories and/or points of view the media often misses. We seek to do and create "work that matters" as per the late Valley writer and visionary Gloria E. Anzaldua, and through our resistencia, help cultivate social change.