By Ciara Jean/El Inde Four years ago, Mariel Montiel got into her car with a small Mexican hot chocolate cupcake and drove across Tucson to her friend Megan’s work. She was on a mission. She needed to know if the cupcake that she just created was actually good or if she was just imagining things….
By Sofia Moraga/El Inde I was such a good kid before meeting them all, my friends. I would go to class, come home, do my work, cook myself dinner, maybe watch Netflix and then fall asleep. Nothing ever happened to me. I didn’t have many friends and my life was pretty, well, boring. Safe, but…
By Jake Toole/El Inde The University of Arizona Community Garden was an array of green last October. Corn was the most identifiable crop, towering over the rest of the green vegetables. Barbara Eiswerth, the director of Iskashitaa, a nonprofit that works to alleviate food insecurity in refugee and non-refugee communities in Tucson by harvesting unused…
By Jesse Tellez/El Inde The smell of Lysol disinfectant hit Emily Gates as she walked through the back door of Invisible Theatre. Had she been wearing a blindfold in addition to her face mask, she might have thought it was a doctor’s office. Gates found one of the red velvet seats in the audience not…
By Kristopher Yanez/ El Inde Amid a dark waning twilight abyss, the bright orange-accented adobe brick walls of the Quality Hotel Americana quickly receded behind Niko Garms and Daniel Valenzuela as they waded past the sleepy storefronts alongside Grand Avenue in Nogales, Arizona, on the early morning of September 16. Aside from the rustlings of…
