Documentary: If Images Could Fill Our Empty Spaces
Alice Driver, one of Vela’s staff writers, recently completed her first documentary, If Images Could Fill Our Empty Spaces. The film explores the complicated…
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Featured Writer: Alice Driver
1. How did you end up in Mexico City? Can you talk about your trajectory as an academic? The day after I defended my…
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Disappearances Have to Disappear
Bodies meant nothing to me. When they jammed into me on the metro or the bus, rather than tensing, pushing, or fighting for some tiny symbolic personal space I learned …
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Proof of Extreme Hardship
was almost there, barreling along I-54 through the valleys where the New Mexican plateau drops and the land pours a deep, scarred red around…
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Down and Out in West Texas
We were checking in when a woman came storming out of her room to the desk and said, “There’s shit on them sheets.”
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