Texas Book Festival 2022 Day 2 Recap: Girl Power, Fierce Reads, and Tokenism

This past weekend the streets surrounding the Texas Capitol were packed full of avid book readers, well-known authors, and established news outlets at the 27th annual Texas Book Festival. Originally founded in 1995 by Former First Lady and Librarian Laura Bush, the Texas Book Festival was established to help connect authors and readers as well…

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A Letter To The Moon

By Carlota Vásquez Dear Moon, There is a myth that comes from the Arhuaco indigenous people, the natives of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and so it goes: when the world was created, all its inhabitants, including the Arhuaco tribe, lived in pitch-black darkness. Then one day, one of their women gave birth to…

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All Your Fears, My Fear

By Jessica Enriquez I’m afraid of You You, and the man who lingers in the highway the hands that reach to tear, scrape  skin and flesh  with nails like claws  not buds sprouting from the grass barely wet in morning rain    I’m afraid of You You, and the worms that climb the bed their…

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Meghan Markle, Brooke Shields, and Katie Couric Celebrate International Women’s Day At SXSW Panel

Today is International Women’s Day, and as a way to celebrate SXSW hosted a Keynote panel titled “Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off Screen” with special panelists Meghan, the Dutchess of Sussex, Markle, Brooke Shields, Katie Couric, and Nancy Yuen. Throughout the one-hour conversation, the women discussed the ways in which…

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