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Sarah A. Chavez Halfbreed Helene Contemplates Protest Capitalism Waiting in line at Safeway, Helene scrolls the pics on Wildfang’s Instagram admiring the straight-cut collared shirts.  She pauses on one embossed with protestbuttons: “Cuz Liberty Was A Lady Too,” “Honk for Choice,” and “I Believe You.”  But do they? H thinks. Always there seems in the commercial air to beContinue reading “Sarah A. Chavez – Halfbreed Helene Contemplates Protest Capitalism”

Sarah A. Chavez Halfbreed Helene’s Greatest Blaspheme Halfbreed Helene knows that she has a mother and a father and a sister,but sometimes,                            sometimes,                                         (most times),                                                       she feels as if she sprang pre-pubescent from the dry knot of a drought-parched poplar: always thirsty, unsureof which direction she should lean. She hears her peers thank their abuelasfor strength, thank their mamisContinue reading “Sarah A. Chavez – Halfbreed Helene’s Greatest Blaspheme”

Sarah A. Chavez Four Hours After You Died I dyed my hair purple. I would have done itanyway, but maybeless methodical, withmusic and dancing underthe line of bare bulbsin the bathroom of thishouse you didn’t get the chance to step in.  I dyed my hair purple,our shared favorite color.Each rinsed strand glintsviolet after drying.You’d think it wasContinue reading “Sarah A. Chavez – Four Hours After You Died”