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ReadSpotlight: Elisabeth Vasquez Hein
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Elisabeth Vasquez Hein does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work. -
ReadEditor’s Note
For this issue, we want to know what it means to take action amid the everyday crises that we are living through, and what that action can look like: gathering our resources, our people, our time. -
ReadThe Cost of Waiting
What are we even waiting for, and where is the line between resting, recuperating, giving up, and irresponsible avoidance? -
ReadA Young Woman’s Guide to Self-Deportation
Wait a year, or two, or ten. Or maybe you’ll wait two decades — squeezing through the cracks in eVerify and RealID until the bureaucratic walls grow too high and you must go under. -
ReadI Turn on Democracy Now! to Hear
Amy’s finally cleared up whatever’s been stuck in her throat. -
ReadHoly Land, Holy Life
On October 10th, 2023, I rediscover a keffiyeh — a traditional Palestinian scarf — while unpacking boxes in my new apartment in Seattle. -
Readfictional finalism
maryland turns into my mother’s favorite place. -
ReadNot Vanishing
It’s Monday morning, April 2020, and I am trying to see if my dad has had a stroke from 800 miles away. -
ReadFirst Fried Chicken at the University of Michigan
I tore through the Target, Hurricane Hooper hellbent / on proving that his skin was / crisp enough -
ReadPortrait of My Body in the Land of X
In the photos taken before I wore it, the gown hangs from a grape arbor. -
Read{}s of history • crush conference & craft lessons on the moon
At the beginning of my future is me. At the end of my past, also me. -
ReadThe Art of Waiting
1. Start with a name / By the end of this pamphlet, you will be able to practice the art of waiting in three simple steps. -
ReadMourning — Landscape
We’ve come to Des Moines for the funeral. Fitting / place: I’ve driven through every time I was leaving home to live / somewhere new. -
ReadGood Immigrant Girl • Journal
This is how you keep your head down; this is how you thank God for this country: loudly so they hear / you;
