Tacos De Asada BY CIELO VALENZUELA-LARA A Response to Backstreet to the American Dream There are days When all my soul craves are Tacos de asada con una horchata, Loaded with onions, cilantro and lime From a friendly food truck. Comfort and safety wrapped in two...
Paris Is Burning BY MARC FRANCIS The 1990 documentary Paris is Burning has slayed its way into the US film canon, implanting itself in documentary 101 and queer theory syllabi at college campuses across the world, and influencing wildly popular TV shows such...
La Queencianera BY CASSADY LÓPEZ I believe it is a universal experience to want to find our kin. To discover ourselves with them and within them. At the prospect of finding safe spaces, and people to share those spaces with. I believe it is a universal experience to...
Sounds Of A Seashell BY CIELO VALENZUELA-LARA A Response to Finlandia The ocean’s waves crashing in the depths of a seashell, pressed against a child’s ear, is sometimes the only form of libertad. Children are good at learning how to drown out the noise of their...
Dear Mama A response to the short film directed by Winter Dunn BY SOPHIA BAZINI “All my grief says the same thing–this isn’t how it’s supposed to be. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. And the world laughs, holds my hope by the throat, says, but this is how it is.”-...
