By Ashley Fredde/El Inde If one were to conjure up an image of a southwestern rancher, Richard Collins might be close. A rancher since the 1980s, Collins looks every bit the part, with his pants pulled over boots that have dried mud around the sole. His hands and face are weathered from working in the…
By Zach Lazarus/El Inde When it all began, I was in Las Vegas with a group of my friends for our final spring break of college. We were set to graduate in May. Everything was going as it should, we were having a blast, and then: Boom. I don’t think anyone was ready for it….
By Emma Muigai/El Inde Lizette Trujillo is a mom and activist in Tucson, who moderates a support group called Families Transformed. With a mission to create and support a network of families embracing their children’s gender nonconformity, Families Transformed provides a monthly meeting for parents of gender diverse children from Southern Arizona. Trujillo is a…
By Alexandra Pere/ El Inde When Gary Nabhan was growing up in the Indiana Dunes, Indiana, he remembered being sleepy in the middle of his class one day. Looking out the window, he studied the leaves of a tree nearby. Nabhan, who would later find out he is color blind, thought the leaves had odd…
Listen to the audio story By Kate Jaeger/ El Inde In a four-bedroom house filled with empty Gatorade bottles, baseball bats and mattresses on the floor, live five minor league baseball players. One of them is Ryan Haug, a 6-foot, 165-pound catcher. In 2018, Haug played baseball for The University of Arizona and would later…
