Privilege Does Not Operate Without Silence.

I'm One Of Those Apocalyptics. From The Start Of My Immigrant Days, I've Been Fascinated By End-of-the-world Stories, By Outbreak Narratives, And Always Wanted To Set A World-ender On Hispaniola.

I Don't Think You Can Be From The Caribbean And Not Know A Certain Amount About The Apocalypse.

Dominican Men Are Told To Look At Women All The Time, But They're Definitely Not Told To See Them.

Every Single Immigrant We Have, Undocumented Or Documented, Is A Future American. That's Just The Truth Of It.

Of Course We All Know That's Not How Life Works. The Novel That Is Our Life Can End At Any Time. Sometimes Even On Page One.