She was desperate to remember… she was scared by the certainty that time would take with it the details of him that still lived in her mind, and that so much life would be reduced to a stupid photograph. Continue reading Little White Lie
Cuando teníamos seis años, Lidia existía. Continue reading Lidia
First I said nothing. Then, “Sure Ma, I’ll do it.” I waited a beat. “But don’t you think we will be suspicious, running out of here at two a.m., you in your robe, carrying a lung machine?” She didn’t think so. Continue reading Mama’s gonna buy you a mocking bird
Solidarity is crucial in order to survive. Solidarity is horizontal and communal, not vertical and hierarchical. Of course, we learned that the hard way. Solidarity means to abandon all prejudice and all ego. Continue reading Lessons from The Wrath of Summer 2019
Behind locked doors, I bear witness to a different kind of suffering, the plaintive cry of voiceless souls on fire burning with the fury of neglect. Continue reading On the Psychiatric Frontlines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Stethoscopes & Pencils 