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Austin FC and Los Verdes Preserve Latinidad in the Gentrified Capital

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austin fc soccer fansIt’s dark, and I’ve spent the past few hours standing around a loading dock behind Austin’s Q2 Stadium with sixty or so of my closest friends—most of whom I’ve never spoken to. It’s late, and we’re lined up around a six-thousand-square-foot painted canvas that has been stretched out on the concrete.I’m talking to Ted, who, like so many others, has recently moved here. In a few minutes, Ted and I, along with the rest of us out here in the dark, will carefully fold this massive canvas, lift it onto our shoulders, and walk it into the stadium.“When’d you move to town?” I ask.“About six weeks ago,” Ted says. “I’m having a blast. My friends in New York thought it was weird I was moving…

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Tuesday, 10 May 2022