December 16, 2024
Un mango dorado para compartir
“El hecho de tener una biblioteca para ellos fue algo súper novedoso porque por lo general -allá al tiempo- cuando salen de las comunidades para el…
June 7, 2017
YO SOY
Ya casi eran las nueve. Me paro bajo el marco de la puerta para encontrar las miradas de los chicos. La cancha y los pasillos…
April 18, 2017
31 STORIES IN 10 WEEKS.
It’s like walking through a dark tunnel with your arms out,reaching for the closest object to hold on to so that you don’t fall. Like…
March 23, 2017
MS. MCCAMPBELL GOES TO JAIL
Yesterday, my high school English teacher came with me to Cook County Jail. “No one else can write what you do, if the story comes…
March 22, 2017
SALIENDO DE LA ZONA DE COMODIDAD
Soy trabajadora social. Trabajo social, dos palabras muy complejas para ser un solo concepto. Para nosotros uno de los principios fundamentales es trabajar en conjunto…
March 7, 2017
DÍA DE LA MUJER
Today is International Women’s Day. I’m tempted to make jokes about the other 364 days of the year. And I want to write about the…
February 13, 2017
DONE GOOD. DONE BAD. BOTH SUCCESSFULLY.
I often talk about literature as a vehicle to develop empathy. And in class the other day, I really experienced it: the power of text-based-dialogue…
January 27, 2017
THE APPLICATION PROCESS
Forty-five detainees completed the Soy Autor application today at Cook County Jail. Forty five out of the 60 who have been invited to apply (we…
January 23, 2017
5 YEARS IN CONTEXTOS LATER
After three weeks of intensive planning and strategizing in Chicago, I have returned to El Salvador. I came back to the green grass of our…
January 9, 2017
UN «DESPUÉS» DE SOY AUTOR
Hace rato, luego de un partidito me encontré a una señora que fue mi vecina 5 años atrás. Nosotros la consideramos como de la familia…
December 13, 2016
TEJIENDO MOSTACILLAS EN KAQCHIKEL
Soy una mujer de 28 años de edad, vivo en la cima de una montaña desde donde veo el lago de Atitlán, como sus olas…
November 21, 2016
$178.75
As the holidays approach, we all have the family themes that provoke some angst. For me, it’s the cousin who always asks: “When are you…
November 12, 2016
WHY SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WHEN THE USA IS IN SO MUCH TROUBLE…?
Ezzie and I left the States for El Salvador Wednesday afternoon. I had joked that «if things didn’t work out on Nov 8, this would…
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