Public-Facing Writing

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Enjoying delicious comida callejera in Coyoacán, Mexico City, when I was working as a journalist for The News (Mexico City)

On Migration

As Jewish Nevadans, Tisha B’Av Calls Us to Remember. Recent Events Call Us to Act (with Michael Kagan), Nevada Current, July 21, 2026.

The Immigration Workforce is Heavily Latino. The Reasons Why Are Rooted in History, The Hill, May 22, 2026.

Minneapolis Exige Una Coalición Feminista, El País, January 26, 2026

The Struggle to Identify All the Dead Bodies in Mexico, The New Yorker, July 25, 2024

Marco Flores Deserves to Stay in the U.S.: A Feminist Argument Against Deportation, Ms. Magazine, January 2, 2023

Roe v. Wade and the Need for a Feminist Theory of Borders, APA Women and Philosophy Blog, December 15, 2021

The Texas Ban and the Migration Injustice, Ms. Magazine, September 9, 2021

Calling Undocumented Farmworkers ‘Essential’ Exacerbates Their Oppression,” in The Nevada Independent, May 14, 2020

The Injustice of Being Socially Undocumented,” in Las Vegas Sun, February 29, 2020

Indigenous Immigrant Identities and Epistemic Injustice,” in Justice Everywhere, February 27, 2020

Women Treated As Illegal As Birthright Citizenship Attacked,” in San Antonio Express-News, February 11, 2020

On Claudia Sheinbaum

Antisemitism Against Sheinbaum Damages Mexico Protests, Salon, December 17, 2025

Claudia Sheinbaum Has a Story to Tell–And We Need to Listen, Salon, July 15, 2025

Claudia Sheinbaum at the Intersection of Sexism and Antisemitism, Orange County Register, April 19, 2024

On the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 In El Paso: A Spectacle of Injustice, Latin American Perspectives blog, January 21, 2021

Men As Mushrooms: A COVID Diagnosis, Nevada Independent, August 20, 2020.

On Childhood and Children’s Rights

Adults-Only Culture Entails Bad Faith, The Nevada Independent, July 19, 2023

Why I Shut Down an Argument in My Philosophy for Children Class, Psyche, April 20, 2021

On Latin American Philosophy and Culture

The Transversal Spirit of the Feminist Strike, LA Review of Books, March 20, 2025

Las Pastorelas escolares y la diversidad religiosa en México, LA Times En Español, December 12, 2022

In Death, Let Us Celebrate Life, Nevada Independent, November 1, 2020

Who Doesn’t Love a Taco? ‘Taste the Nation’ and the Problem with Neoliberal Immigrant Rights Activism” in Salon, June 30, 2020 (co-authored with Iván Sandoval Cervantes)

Maria Felix,” in The News, Mexico City

“Figueroa’s Films Were Visual Gems” (click on thumbnail below to enlarge) in The News, Mexico City

Gabriel Figueroa

“Gabriel Orozco Creates a New Mexican Landscape” (click on thumbnail below to enlarge) in The News, Mexico CityGabriel Orozco

“Annahuacalli Museum Closes Due to Tourism Shortfall” (click on thumbnail below to enlarge) in The News, Mexico City

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“Touchable Paintings for the Visually Impaired” (click on thumbnail below to enlarge) in The News, Mexico City

Touchable Paitings for the Visually Impaired

Misc.

 Voting in Exile, Common Dreams, October 20, 2020.

Bernie Sanders, Socialism, and the Trap of Fidel Castro,” in The Morning Call, March 5, 2020

 Why Trump Deserves to Lose the Pennsylvania Dutch Vote, The Morning Call, October 10, 2020.

“Water is Green” in The Guardian

“Waterways Have ‘The Golden Touch’” in BBC News Online 

Short Fiction and Poetry

“The Owl and the Border” in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change

Calavera “Ideología de Género” (in Spanish), in El Diario de Juárez (scroll down)

“Calavera for Ivanka Trump” (received Honorable Mention in the 2019 Winchester-Dondero Calavara Competition)