I write about what it's like to be in this in-between space, to not have these things in common with my friends, and to be looking for more of a community and sense of belonging.
Q&A with Angela Peñaredondo, author of nature felt but never apprehended
Q&A with Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, author of Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites
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Q&A with Alexandra Ye, author of “IOU”
I felt very lucky and excited to be in college when I was there, but for some reason I also couldn’t help feeling slightly humiliated all the time.
Q&A with John Manuel Arias, author of Where There Was Fire
Life is very beautiful. It's very tragic. It's very fucked up. But there are these little moments of ebullience.
Q&A with Jacqui Germain, author of Bittering the Wound
...that’s how memory works. There are always addendums, always missing details, always mess and emotion and things you can’t recall until much later.
Q&A with Jennifer Baker, author of Forgive Me Not
The goal is for you to understand that these Black and Brown children, they’re being put in a really, really bad situation. That’s our system.
Q&A with Lara Longo, author of “Motherland”
What I wanted to explore was a sort of failed hero’s journey.
Q&A with Vickie Vértiz, author of Auto/Body
I'm in all times at all times. I'm both in Mesoamerican times – as someone who practices Aztec dance, and has a belief system built with syncretism, and also as a professor of Chicanx Studies is like taking apart Mexican identity via Mexican nationalism, and a child of the 80s as a queer person, and someone who worked grew up working class who loves things that have existed for a long time, and who likes to reuse them.
