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Vickie Vértiz

Writer, Educator, Advocate

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Tag: Latinos

New on KCET, Youth Resistance and Los Angeles Photography

From my latest article on Artbound KCET: “The week of November 14, 2016, nearly 4,000 students from about 18 schools … More

Chicana/o Movement, Chicano Movement, Chicanx, civil unrest, demonstrations, East Los Angeles, immigration, KCET, KCET Artbound, Latinos, Latinx, los angeles, protests, Rafael Cardenas, riots, student demonstrations, Tim Toyama, Vincent Price Art Museum, walkouts, Xela de la X

How Bell Gardens is Banking on Bicycle Club Casino’s Luxury Hotel

The sign illuminates eight lanes of the neighboring 710 Freeway. In contrast to the new monument to luxury, the gritty … More

Bell Gardens, California, Communities for a Better Environment, environment, environmental justice, environmental racism, Exide, Gov.Brown, Governor Jerry Brown, immigrants, KCET, KCET Departures, Latino immigrants, Latinos, los angeles, pollution, South east LA, South Gate, southeast LA, Southeast Los Angeles, Vernon, Vickie Vertiz, working families, working-class

“Faking Business,” a new story up at the JFR

What happens when your arch nemesis shows up at a random Commerce quinceañera in the same Payless platforms? Find out here at … More

City of Commerce, Kamala Puligandla, Latinos, Payless shoes, quinceañeras, Sergio's Tacos, southeast LA, teenagers, The James Franco Review, Vickie Vertiz, young adult fiction

Recent writing, news, and posts

  • Virtual AWP 2021 panel, “The Woven Verse: An Exploration of the Latinx Verse Novel in Kidlit”
  • Toyoteria: Jaime Muñoz’s Apparitions of Faith
  • On family violence and waiting for the Big One
  • “1989 Caprice Classic,” a poem
  • KCET Story: Third-annual Southeast L.A. River Arts Festival held entirely online
  • Teaching online? Don’t panic. Seriously.
  • AWP 2021 in San Antonio: events!
  • Yesika Salgado and I chop it up: video from 2019 LitLit Conference: Latinx/L.A. Poetics
  • Vickie in New York (and Vermont)!
  • To Collage, To Carry: A Fragmented Essay Writing Workshop, Sat. 8/24, NYC
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