Sarah Grace Villarreal

SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL It happened so quickly. I fell and I fell hard. Head over heels, completely smitten and all of those other clichés that nauseate me. But I have…

In this issue, we explore and expand on the theme of inoculation, beyond its traditional understanding as a word for controlling infectious diseases and other productive instances of melding, commingling,…

SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL The highway road stretched on and on through the dusty terrain. It faded into the horizon in the rear-view mirror as Krista sped on. Krista liked this…

In this issue, we reflect on the ongoing situation of both the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the conversations around racial justice brought about by the Black Lives Matter protests.…

SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL “Just had to finish up that call, so what were we talking about?” Don said to Carla as he walked into the conference room. Carla had been…

In this issue, we explore and imagine what it means to be truly attentive (in both performative and non-performative terms) and how might our assumptions of which behaviors signal attention…

SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL I remember the first time I made a mistake in public. I must have been 9 or 10 years old. I went to a snack shop after…

In this issue, we ask the question of what are the various ways in which color — remembered, perceived, or imagined — perform the construction of meaning, experience, and ideology?…

SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL Whatever made me delusional enough to think I could successfully translate Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet into Spanglish quickly vanished once I made it through about half of the…

In this issue, we explore the ways in which we transform communication, specifically through translation & adaptation, in order to connect with disparate and different communities. As part of this…