by Admin | Jun 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s official! At last I write to say we have launched round two of interviews, summer 2022 is rolling. Last summer our travels were focused on doing interviews, connecting with people, and writing the blogs more or less as they came. This time around however,...
by Admin | Feb 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
An unseasonal snowstorm flurries around us in Whitehouse. Big white dry flakes spiraling from the sky. Kalenda has flown in from Norman to talk to us about her family homestead, and only José, who by chance wore a jacket, is dressed for cold. Kalenda smartly pulls a...
by Admin | Aug 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Before we wanted to become good relatives, before Dina and I knew one another at all, we were connected through Panhe –”the place by the water” in the Acjachemen language. I had written about Panhe in the Surfer Girls book. Dina wrote an entire Master’s...
by Admin | Aug 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
We begin with Lulu’s garden and with Lulu interviewing me! “Why do you think the idea of the West persists for us, in North America? From a Mexican perspective, a child of a migrant,” Lulu says, “the other orientation was north, right? I find it so...
by Admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
The one and only, Melody Graulich! We meet in Swan Valley, Idaho, set up at Camp Rendezvous, a small mom-and-pop shop with no tent campers but us. Melody herself had planned to throw her bag down under the stars, but late-day rain and her dog, who she thinks might...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
This post is written by Zainab Abdali, the graduate summer intern for the Living West as Feminists project. 9 am in Houston. I sit down at my desk with a cup of coffee, open up my laptop, and put my headphones on. I hit play. The conversation that I listen to is...
