Echoes in the Underground

A Creative Nonfiction Essay narrating my first pride experience in 2019. It was World Pride 50 in New York City, marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots with even more people and festivities than usual. The essay’s subtitle, “parents, prejudice, and the son in the subway,” aims to shed light on the underbelly of pride events and the hereditary nature of fear and intolerance.

essayTanner VargasApril 4, 2023 Comment

The Technicolor Desert

Vividly colored gems are beginning to populate the desert skyline in El Alto, Bolivia. The designer of these polarizing pieces, Freddy Silvestre Mamani, brings more than interesting color and geometry to the table in the creation of this technicolor wave—what does this new invasion mean to the architecture and peoples of Bolivia, in object, process and product?

essay, latin americaTanner VargasSeptember 10, 2018essay, architecture, bolivia, el alto, mamani, latin americaComment