Mar 26, 2019
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
Mireya S. Vela is that woman. In this long-form interview, we
discuss her art, creative nonfiction, social justice, motherhood,
womanhood, being marginalized in the United States, and her new
book, Vestiges of Courage: Collected Essays, which we,
The Nasiona, are happy to be publishing in April of
2019.
Vestiges of Courage is a collection of personal essays
that explores inequities and injustice. Raised between two cultures
and two languages, Vela discusses how the systems in her family and
in society worked to create an abusive environment that felt
crushing, confusing, and hopeless. She delineates her experience of
living through sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. This book is
much more than a collection of experiences, though. Ms. Vela wants
to know how and why abuse thrived in her family. She digs deep to
understand why these things happened and how she survived.