This writing is based on storytelling, common in Mexican culture.
“Letter from Okinawa” describes my research and observations into the impact the U.S. military has had on the island, and tells the story of the Japanese government’s historical culpability by colonizing, controlling, and discriminating against the island.
This story explores childbirth-related trauma and postpartum mental health through the lens of a ‘good birth.’
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
Within the context of this poem, I tried to explain what was happening to my body because of SLE and what I was thinking.
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
I documented my two-month diet in a food journal and it began as a personal effort to lose weight following a "Barthes diet".
The dynamic taking place in these poems was autoethnography, a hybrid of my investigation of the 1960's coupled with my personal experience.
My weird depression showed up this summer like “hey sis!” And I was like “fuck my life”! I wasn’t ready. This time, it caught me off guard.
One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death is a narrative representation of death as a universal humanistic theme.
This work shows that the benefits of reading multiple texts, each from a different perspective provides opportunities for students.
The poem driving this experimental film about television considers the insomniacs who wake at the same time each night in rhythm.
