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and who is still processing through play, the most difficult part of her day. I think about all the patience and love and time that has gone into assuring my daughter that grownups. always. come. back. And then I think about the children at the border. I think about how those ripping the screaming children from their pleading parents are not kind ladies in the “bumblebees” room. They are men and women who have been able to warp their minds into believing that these children are not human in the way “our” children are. They are trained military personnel, not child psychologists. They are people who have been able to fathom a level of cruelty beyond what anyone wants to see, and what we in fact often try to avoid, because it is too painful to know that this is happening under our watch. This country was founded on ripping children from their parents (see Washington Post’s America’s Cruel History of Separating Children from Their Parents). It is something we have always done and continue to do. We separate families when we incarcerate parents at a rate at least five times higher than any other country. Over 5 million American children have been affected by parental incarceration, with black and brown families being affected most severely. We separate black and brown babies from their mothers when these mothers die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related causes at a rate 2.5 times higher than white women. We shackle imprisoned women to hospital beds while giving birth, without informing their families, and then make them turn the babies over less than a week after birth to be taken back to prison. This separation of families is something our current state of politics still emboldens many people to do, and encourages the greater masses to be too numb to care about. To this day, at least 600 parents of children who were separated under the previous administration’s “zero tolerance” policy have still not been found, and we are faced with the horrifying reality that they may never be reunited. “Grown Ups Come Back” won’t be true for all children, and this will have lasting effects for generations, as it has for generations before us. My daughter was born by c-section one week before the 2016 election. The first thing I remember is her squeaky cry and her dimpled chin. I remember laughing so hard (and wincing in pain because the laughing hurt my incision) with my husband as she bobbed her tiny face against my breast like a little blind kitten looking for milk. She was so fragile. As we start moving through her fourth year, I’m amazed at how much she’s grown, the interesting questions she asks, and most of all, her brilliant imagination. But her tininess still amazes me too, and her dependency. She’s still a little kitten learning her place in the world. She still depends on me and her dad for her food, her shelter, her physical and emotional comfort. I can hardly imagine her being 64
Thurwin Lane John and Rena Painting, Acrylic on Bristol Paper 8.5”x14” forced from my arms by an unknown militiaman. But I think this is what we all have to do-- to use our imaginations to understand--just like my daughter has done for years. Because it is not just in our imaginations; it is real. Sadly this nightmare is not new, and it is not over just because there are new people in power. At the end of the noodle video my daughter dictates for the mommy noodle: “I was out exercisin’ -- now I picked you up!!!” and her chubby cheeks form a huge grin. Then she imitates a noodle hug before saying proudly, “The end….of my noodles.” I want to live in a world where all stories have happy endings like this one. To donate to Arizona Justice for Our Neighbors, a local Tucson organization helping provide legal services to immigrants, please visit azjfon.org Sources: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2018. html https://www.cdc.gov/media/ releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnicdisparities-pregnancy-deaths.html https://www.theguardian.com/usnews/2020/jan/24/shackled-pregnantwomen-prisoners-birth https://www.aecf.org/resources/a-sharedsentence/ 65
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Sand Script ART & LITERATURE 2021 1
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ABOUT SANDSCRIPT The SandScript sta
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EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief & M
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SPECIAL THANKS Lee Lambert, Chancel
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has taught me that life is precious
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Javier Dosamantes For She Had Eyes
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Page 15 and 16: Nathan Coffey Cactus Car Photograph
Page 17 and 18: have been given a merciless reputat
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Page 27 and 28: So here it is now, the hounds of lo
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Page 31 and 32: 31 Ashley Carmichael Spring Flowers
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Page 39 and 40: Rebecca Farris Inner Feelings Digit
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Page 57 and 58: WHO’S COUNTING? Alexa Lewis Stati
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Page 69 and 70: Part 2 We the People of the United
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Page 89 and 90: GOOD AND EVIL Chacara Thomas A resp
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Kimberly Calles Solitude Digital Ph
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STRANGE WEATHER Kentaro Herder for
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Ulises Ramos Dejen Al Musico Dormir
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MORE THAN ANYTHING Luke Eriksson Yo
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hangover - As you have countless ti
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A RETURN M.J. Copic Set out on the
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Grace Johnson Taurus Traditionally
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STRENGTH M.J. Copic Follow bloody f
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Brianna Stevens Garden Spirit Illus
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QUARANTINED Mauricia Manuel Confine
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Desert Ehrhart Portrait Painting, O
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your mother suffered the loss of bl
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Mya Palacios Emotional Growth Color
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ICE CANNOT BE UNMELTED Michele Wort
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Javier Dosamantes For She Had Eyes
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On the day I found my first gray ha
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Monica Nelson My Dads Favorite Teap
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FALLING STARS Sierra Vigil To: Eart
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Rhea Stanley Scorned Oil Painting,
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CA CONRAD’S SQUIRREL Travis Coope
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Rick Spriggs Red Top Ceramic 11”H
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DYING Yareli Sanchez How am I drown
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Weston Lane Feminine Masculinity Di
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RIPPED AND SCATTERED Mark Anthony F
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Rhea Stanley Tonight Charcoal 14”
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SHE WAS NEAR Desert Ehrhart She was
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Does love pour from the pursuit of
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Abigale Robles A Snake in Chaos Dra
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SIREN CALL Elena Acuna She ducks in
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ENROBE YOURSELF IN VELVET Salina Mo
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Cynthia Drumond - Drawing and paint
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video content on my YouTube, named
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trauma aiding him in becoming a goo
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uplift communities, peers, and even
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