My name is Vladimire and I Am Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unapologetic. 7, the lucky number right? No, I think otherwise. That is when my life took an unexpected turn. I still had a hard life before then, the reason being that my parents shifted apart. I lived with my mother for the first two years …
NYSYLC’s UndocuMic Series
The NYSYLC’s UndocuMic came out of the Dreaming in Ink creative writing workshops where many undocumented youth worked on written pieces about their experiences and needed a space to read it out loud and share it with the world. UndocuMic’s are open mics for undocumented immigrant people. These UndocuMic offer a creative safe space to …
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Dreaming In Ink serves as a space where undocumented youth can reclaim their stories and healing through writing.
View full postYessica Is Telling You What Democracy Looks Like
This is Yessica’s story: “Acceptance” When I came to the United States, at the age of ten, the last of my worries was the illegality of my presence. I didn’t know about nine-digit identification numbers or that I would cringe at stories of immigrants being deported. Alien meant a little green creature living in outer space, …
Who I Want To Be
-Brian’s Poem
This is Melissa’s Story
When I emigrated from Colombia to New York at the age of eight to reunite with my mother who had left two years before, I was not cognizant of the extreme burdens that I was going to be facing. Little did I know that I was going to be confronting the crude reality of being …



