Nuestras Historias (Issue 1, Vol 1)

academic or personal pleasure. Writing is a
method that creates a tangible record of our
presence, our thoughts, emotions, and actions.
Maria Carvajal Regidor mentions there is a long
and deep history of Latinx student engagement
through writing, and it is essential we preserve
this history for future students to be better
supported in their academic endeavors towards
success.
Publications such as La Carta
Informativa, The Literary Magazine, and even
Nuestra Verdad are not easy to maintain. There
are many reasons why publications of this
magnitude die out, some of them less obvious
than others. Funding is a huge part of any
University organization, and some publications,
such as La Carta benefited from direct
University funding for the writers. That is one
reason (among many others) it was able to be in
circulation for so many years. For some
publications, such as Nuestra Carta and The
Literary Magazine, it’s just a matter of timing.
Many of us are only on this campus for a certain
amount of time, and when that time is up,
there’s often not much more we can contribute
to student organizations. Another reason, and
possibly the one we need to combat the most, is
the politics. As minorities in a PWI,
administrators and those in power don’t often
want to hear our voices critiquing their
institutions. But speaking our mind and making
our presence known is an essential practice in a
space that wasn’t made for us, especially as we
work to create a better campus existence for
those that come after us. Which is why NUVE
will continue to work hard and endure to make
sure our voices are heard and our truths are told
for years to come.
Nuestra Verdad is fortunate enough to
stand on the shoulders of and benefit from the
groundwork that was laid before us by these
groups, and we want to make sure that it is
known we are not the first group of students
with these goals, and we will most certainly not
be the last.
Acknowledgements
Thank you so much to Maria for taking
the time to sit with us and being our personal
archive as we unfortunately could not see this
publication first-hand due to this pandemic. If
you would like to check out the full interview
with Maria, feel free to visit our website,
www.nuesteraverdad.com.
We also would like to thank the Student
Life and Cultural Archive and the Institutional
Archive at La Casa for the images and
information we have included in this article. ◻
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